Opposition to square the circle in combat Ya no recuerdo en qué momento de estos últimos años decidí meterme en el
culebrón de las oposiciones. Vino dado de los consejos de una persona con quien mantuve una intensa correspondencia (y algo parecido a la amistad) hará ya tres años. Luego, mi entrada en el mundo de las suplencias en el Hospital del Mar me abrió las puertas al "trabajo en la pública".
Así que me fui concienciando progresivamente. Recopilé mis escasos titulillos, me puse al día con el catalán (requisito imprescindible en mi comunidad autónoma, supongo que como en todas las que tienen una segunda lengua), I started sniffing around agendas ...
The first time I faced an agenda scared me. I said I would not be able to memorize so much political nonsense. Took me months to face a new agenda. This time it was to begin to study, armed with patience and no conviction.
The first opposition to which I applied were the best. I read only 5 of the 25 issues that came and went very quiet. I did not have much time to prepare. I had to reconcile the agenda with the highest level of Catalan was also preparing to work in the hospital, daily life and family a few scares me most were making arrangements and travel to other hospitals of the city. I was lucky
the beginner, but with a note I failed very close to five (4.3). That gave me courage and decided to get serious.
took more months until another call came that interested me, also in public health. I decided to go to school because the agenda was already 30 tracks, more complicated than before and I knew I needed support.
These caught me in 2010. I've been studying all this year. As I explained at the time, I suspended the May (administrative body of the Institut Català de la Salut) with 4.6, a note ridiculous compared to 4.3 of the previous edition. A note ridiculous I was preparing myself for five months.
could not leave it at this point. On the way the body appeared competitions administrative support of the Government, with an agenda similar to the ICS. I signed up and went in the same school (one of the more prestigious public issues of Spain) studied for them, to be held on 17 October.
How do I do? I do not know. If I judge by the result of the exercise we did yesterday at the wrong school, another 4.3. Once again I betrayed some nerves and giddiness when reading the questions, a recklessness that is not normal for me. I know more than you know I think, but I do not think so. Why do silly things. The
oposiones bring me back the ghost of the hated exams. I have always hated. My first impulse to the sheet with the questions has always been the same: get up and get out well away from the classroom. I always ask the same question: "What the hell am I doing here?"
oppositions failure remind me that I took years ago when I hung a career that was mediocre to work and getting married. I've always been the thorn for not having finished my studies. Work and groom were the excuse, a cheap excuse: I ran away, terrified of the University and my responsibilities to my own intellectual formation.
However, the worm of the study did not abandon me. Courses studied to retrain my work as a proofreader, after the birth of my son decided to revive my old English studies and I spent 7 years studying at night, practicing the day with my son Lion King songs in original version . I got my First Certificate
and then went to the CAE
also approved, as difficult as I put my son (impossible to study with a hyperactive child next to which we must constantly monitor.)
So I thought I was very ready to battle some books that weigh a lot, laws, articles and jargon very, very boring, with the same fate.
Objections, things are not so simple. I am not the same girl memorizing chemical formulas, crystal structures and trying to map mountains with his compass and his geologist's hammer. Neither is to study languages. As a young man had ability, but do not win, preferring to go out and have fun.
Now I have the desire, but I'm not sure you have the ability.
I am told that the way for a public plaza is long and hard, but now, with the economic and social situation which we live.
is not easy to reconcile the private and professional life, and above all therefore take time and brain cells to understand and then memorize tooooodo what we are required to enter the service of that elite corps who are civil servants.
On the other hand, it is a wonderful job, I know. I see people who spent years working on the Catalan public health and some are people capable professionals. Others are real burdens on health, work poorly, criticize everything and do not hesitate to endorse the substitutes work as they appear. Laugh a little bit of everything ", the chair is mine and I moved here." From where I sit quiet, modest in the alternate who is here today, gone tomorrow and gone on the dole, I see many things, many, scandalous. There are people who are not entitled to the salary we pay all taxpayers, not wins. Often criticize those who "abuse" the system and do not realize (do not you give it?) That they do exactly the same, on the other side.
But despite all this, I remain, as I decided to go after my failure in May. In this case is more complicated because it has a lot of people (aproximdamente 16,500 people) are a prestigious competitions, with a reputation for attracting high skilled people. Two initial tests, and one has to eliminate most (may be left alone about 1900 people for the third test, which consists of the wording in the handwriting of a case study). Some of my acquaintances who are now working in the Civil Service have spent several years studying patiently. Perseverance, discipline and a little luck have allowed them to take over the plaza. I will not be arriving, study a few months and take the upper hand.
In my class there are many women, some more than 50 years, some young, some men (very few, of course) in middle age. It's funny the kind of conversations you have between classes, questions about the common administrative procedure, problems with children who take bad grades, ranting by the family to leave no space or time to study ... Some commented with some irony that may end up separated because of the opposition. And laughter, especially laughter.
I think these competitions still are not "mine." I still need to assimilate agenda, I need to memorize lots of information and not to confuse the state with the autonomic regulation. I lack moderation and composure, I still stand up, slow down my inner rhythm.
However, today I know many things that a year ago did not know: when I speak of an administrative appeal or an optional replacement, not raise my eyebrow. When I tell whether some members of the CT (Constitutional Court) have long since exhausted its mandate because I know I can know the basic rules of operation. When my husband A few months ago received a parking ticket in a place and a time when he was working (or so he says), I could tell what he had to do and where to file your claim, when last Wednesday I was able to work to tell any
pickets that had arisen in the CAP that Article 28 of the English Constitution speaks of the English right that we have to strike, and not to be confused with the obligation undertaken. (By the way, there came none of us working that day in the CSMA we treat patients as normal). Much have I learned about this country's legislative work. I can even remember what title of the Constitution or statute is that precept or that other. I know things that when I first saw the agenda I thought I could learn. And I know the most important thing I can do it.
how things stand, I can not escape. I have to follow. -----------------------------------
dedicate this post to Adelina, Cristina, Carmen, Joana , Lucy, Pilar, Ruben, co opponents (not competing). -----------------------------------
