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I’ve got three kids, so being at home can be stressful at times. I
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couldn’t imagine having stress at work as well. I love being at home with my girlfriend and the kids, but it can be a hyper environment
made to stand the grass up before I cut. I’ve used double, maybe even triple, the amount of seed and the pitch has worn so much better. Usually, around this time of year, the goalmouths and the middles are all open, but now they are not.”
“I’ve got three kids, so being at home can be stressful at times. I couldn’t imagine having stress at work as well. I love being at home with my girlfriend and the kids, but it can be a hyper environment. When I come here, I reset; I listen to audiobooks and podcasts all day and I’m chilled out. When I’m here it’s so relaxed and I enjoy pretty much every day. I think that has been such a good balance in my life” Dan’s relaxed, yet highly efficient and creative approach comes across in the way he talks and the ideas he has. Our quick tour around what he refers to as ‘the museum’ reveals the dimple seeder project, which is
being constructed like Frankenstein’s monster, with a handle from an old piece of equipment, wheels from another etc. We also speak about proposed cutbacks that he faces and the ways in which he’ll have to deal with it, but his enthusiasm never drops, prompting the question if it ever has. “You can get disheartened,” he stated.
“For example, at the start of the season when Romford first team were training here, I hadn’t marked the floodlit pitch out yet, the grass looked incredible, and I was so impressed with it. They were training on a pitch further down the field, but came back onto the main pitch and did a load of shuttle runs; they thought they were off the pitch. In moments like that, you think you’ve done all that work over the summer for nothing, even though it was only the corner of the pitch. With things like that you can be
discouraged, but I still look forward to getting to work every day.” “Some days I wake up and can’t wait to get here, I got here at 6.00am this morning, and I don’t have to start until 8.00am, but I want to do as much as I can, and I enjoy that challenge. Some weeks they’ll say you’ve got three cricket games this weekend, and this football starting and that football starting and I’ve got to mark out a whole football pitch from scratch and do a cricket strip, but I love having full days, and I look back and see what I’ve achieved that week, and that’s probably the biggest satisfaction; when you’ve got a whole week’s work to do and you get it done to a high standard. Working with grass, if you put the work in then you get the results, it’s as simple as that.”
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