A child's hand and all that.

[franceslievens]

Since next week is the first of September and that equals the start of the school year, the government comes bearing gifts to please the workforce: I will be earning a little extra next year. It's but a fickle newsitem that suddenly gets repeated every hour on the radio, and frankly I don't care*. To my standards it isn't newsworthy that I suddenly earn a few bucks more. I get by with what is deposited in my bank account at the end of every month. Just don't get me started on how much I gave up when I decided to switch from secondary school to teaching in primary school.

*Though I seem to care enough to blog about it. Speaking of discrepancies...