Aspirations

"This he said, was something he dealt with all the time. He was forever getting junior Batswana employees coming to the personnel department and demanding a promotion on the grounds that they could do the job of their boss - who in most cases, they complained, just sat behind the desk, spoke on the phone, clicked ballpoint pens, and shuffled papers.

Dad said Beauty must have watched him using his stethoscope and giving injections and tablets and understandably thought she could do that too.

Grandpa smiled and said, in his gravest I-have-been-in-Africa-for-a-long-time-and-seen-a-lot-of-things voice, that of course, even if you weren't properly trained, aspiration and self-confidence were always the most important starting points."

Robyn Scott - p. 74. Twenty Chickens for a Saddle