You’re so incredible @Little_Leopard . Your posts are so valuable and uplifting to read.

 People don’t understand my mental health because I don’t talk about it in the way I speak about it here. People in education often just want to ‘move on’ and don’t have time to talk about mental health. I don’t talk to my family about it either - that’s probably why they don’t get it.

Anyway, I know what works and doesn’t work for me. I’ve come to the point where I’m not going to try an explain myself - too much energy involved. Shit happens in life, we can’t stop it. There’s no point decorating shit with flowers because ultimately, it’s still shit lol. I just need to learn to let it be and move on to work with what I am in control of.

 Reports? I lead a STEM team. With the current teacher shortage, we have casual teachers who don’t do reports. So no, it’s not normal for me to do other people’s reports but because it’s my team, then I have to do them. Oh well, part of the job. And soon it’ll only get worse because those on sponsorship visas need to go to the farms for 88 days to pick fruit. So that’s three months some classes won’t have teachers. Not only that, in July, those on student visas (who are working as teachers) have their unlimited work hours cut to 24 hours which means some staff can only work 3 days instead of full time.

Way to go government! I don’t have answers for you either.

 So yes, that’s the challenge with the racing industry right now. But I’m quite aware farmers and aged care are also suffering. With NZ now in a recession, let’s see what happens to Australia.

 Welcome to the real world.