by Liam Ryan | May 6, 2018 | education/training
These days, I regularly find myself carrying out a review of each day. In a busy life, it appears to be a little mechanism that has evolved to help me keep some kind of check on progress, or otherwise. A daily instrument to help me impose some order on an often hectic schedule.
by Liam Ryan | Mar 7, 2018 | education/training
Many people have asked me what goes through your head in the middle of an extreme cancer battle. Where did I find the resolve to keep going when everything looked so dark? And did I take anything from the experience that I still apply in my life today?
by Liam Ryan | Jan 14, 2018 | education/training
After working in the private sector for over 25 years, I took up a senior position in the public sector last year, so I guess this article was always going to be written.
My assessment of both systems.
by Liam Ryan | Aug 10, 2017 | education/training
Could we not have agreed from the outset that we do not kill each other?
by Liam Ryan | May 7, 2017 | education/training
Looking Back to Look Forward LIAM RYAN Former Liverpool architect and author of Cancer 4 Me 5 Sometimes, in an effort to identify the direction I feel my life should take, I momentarily project myself forward to the end, and look back. I try to establish what the...
by Liam Ryan | Feb 8, 2017 | on the job, Trends
Careers in Government likes when this article has a link to the month in which it is published. Valentine’s Day was suggested as a possible thread with which to weave but I have opted for a February event a little less obvious, but perhaps even more loved! An event...
by Liam Ryan | Jan 13, 2017 | on the job, Trends
I went to a funeral last week. It was a sobering start to a new year. He was a young man, 53, leaving a wife and two young children behind him. I hadn’t met him, but his brother is a good friend of mine. There is something about funerals. They seem to be able to blow...
by Liam Ryan | Dec 10, 2016 | education/training, Trends
I attended a cancer conference recently and some of the medics said to me “I wish some of my patients were like you”. It didn’t register with me initially but later I realized that perhaps I had the ability to go places they couldn’t reach. A regular stumbling block...
by Liam Ryan | Oct 11, 2016 | education/training
I am quite enjoying being in my fifties. The stage of your life when all of the elements, if not quite come together, get as close are they are probably going to. It is the brow of the hill of life. You are old enough to look back and be reflective and wise, but still...
by Liam Ryan | Sep 7, 2016 | on the job
There can never be enough gratitude in the world. After I survived my cancer ordeal I had a lot of people to thank. And my greatest source of guilt by then was how little I had known about what people in the medical world do. Now I will never let myself forget again....
