"Is this really my office?" - Ms. Roberts

Imagine a job where you start your day, and you're greeted by approximately 200 little boys going, “Good morning, Ms. Roberts!” It's just the most wonderful way to start your day. I can't imagine any other job where a tiny child will bring me something and say, “I drew this for you”. It’s just so special. Imagine doing that for your life. Like, if I was here for as long as Mr. Sturgeon, that's a life really well-spent. To just be with little kids and delight in them, and for all of us to delight in each other just seems like a good life. That wouldn't be so bad, which is what I'm planning to do. I'm going to like Queen Elizabeth in that situation. “Move my dead body out of here.”

[My new job] is kind of strange still. Have you heard of imposter syndrome? It's this idea that maybe you fooled everybody and they believe something is true about you. That is not really true, and maybe, sometimes I have imposter syndrome, like, how are we? Is this my office? How many people are still fooled that I can do this? And how long will I get to keep this position before they figure out that I don't know what I'm doing?

Like you can decide–you can decide that you deserve this and you're entitled to something. You can decide that you're a victim in a situation, or you can decide that you're pretty darn lucky to be where you are and it's one or the other, you know, and you have to decide. And you have to choose which one is going to be the lens that you will see reality through.

Like, I don't deserve to be here. I don't deserve to be in the same office that Mr. Sturgeon was in, that Mr. Devenish was in, or before him, the one Mr. Hutchinson was in, like all of these historic men who have taken this office. I know that I don't deserve to be counted as one of them. And yet here I am. And so I don't know, it's sort of important to me in the midst of all the juggling to remember, like you're darn lucky to be where you are to be center stage and to be having all of these balls thrown your way and to have all these people believing in you.

I do think that Mr. Devenish deserved this position. I do think Mr. Sturgeon deserved this position. I don't think I do, and I will wake up every day trying to deserve it. And every night I will say I didn't deserve it enough and I'm going to give it another go tomorrow so that I can earn it.