Hawi’s Year End

Healthy not huge

I’m just getting back into going to the gym, after a long time of lazing about on my backside doing no exercise and eating lots of cake. It was when I tried to play football with some mates the other week and ended up a wheezing, sweating mess – with all my supposed friends standing around and laughing at me – that I decided something had to be done.
I’m taking it slowly at first. A bit of swimming, bit of time on the exercise bike and the rowing machine. Now that we’re getting some pleasant spring evenings I’ve even been known to strap on the sweat bands and go for a quick jog. But soon I know I will have to go into the gym and make an appointment for the one thing I am really dreading – my personal training appointment.
I’d happily go without, to be honest, and just muddle along doing my own thing, but the gym bosses insist that everyone has an introductory session with a member of staff so that they can familiarise themselves with all the machines and to “get the most” out of the equipment and their gym membership. I’ve been through one of these sessions before, and somehow got myself talked into doing loads of weights and signing up for the torture that is also known as spinning classes. I was only a few minutes away from being offered huge jars of whey protein and some steroids, I reckon!
Can’t gym staff accept that some guys just want to be fit? That we don’t all want to look like Arnie in his prime. I’d love to go to one of those women-only gyms (not for that reason) where they just let you work out at your own pace, rather than all that grunting and free weights that seems to be encouraged among us blokes….

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To Quit Or Not To Quit

Many people are fed up with their jobs. The nearly three million unemployed in the UK though might have something to say about that though. So when does it get to the point that your job has become so unbearable that you need to leave. I’ll try to offer some rounded advice as well as my usual rant to prevent you from getting depressed or angry.

First the advice bit: you should never quit your job without having something already lined up to take its place. Whether that be another job, a plan to move abroad or travel or time to start studying for a degree you should always try and have a plan. Notice I used the word ‘try'right after the word ‘always’. Whilst it is sensible to have a back up and an alternative to take over once you’ve given your boss the finger, it is not always essential.

Sometimes you can become so beaten down in your job that you become too afraid to jerk yourself out of it. You feel like you need some kind of Mac Antivirus to reboot your systems and get you back into the swing of life. If you are in that kind of situation then it can become okay to hand in your notice without having a back up plan ready. It is not always easier to look for a job whilst you’re working. In fact trying to find a job whilst you’re working can become wholly depressing as you’re usually knackered and de-motivated. What better motivation is there then the threat of poverty? I’ve seen people quit their hell hole jobs and move into something they’ve always wanted to do in life, just like that (mimes clicking his fingers).

So by all means try and be sensible and have an alternative, but if you really are stuck in a rut and are miserable then do yourself a favour and give yourself whatever kick you need to get back to your life. It’s your only one at the end of the day…

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