The Next Chapter

To say the last four months have been easy would be the understatement of the decade. In fact, since touching down from Valencia my life has been anything but a piece of cake. I thought the holiday would have given me the chance to recharge the batteries and come back with a clear perspective. Instead, I found myself soon deciding that it was time for a change.

Eleven days after making that decision myself, , the result of a chain of events compelled to make another more immediate decision. Back then, I was unsure if it was the right thing to do. Validation felt a long long way off.

I suppose my initial problem was I was naive to think I back in employment as quickly as before. Last time around my spell of unemployment was a short lived two weeks. A holiday if you will. Even though there were so many more opportunities out there, it is just a shame that there were hundreds more applying for each position.

I got an interview, got complacent invested too much into this one opportunity and then had to go back and start all over again once the rejection came through.

I applied for a position back in mid November, one of several that day and it was quickly forgotten. As I had not heard back from anyone, I assumed that it was just another case of a rejection based on the fact there has been no response. No news is bad news, so to speak. You can imagine my surprise to get a phone call around 10am on the first officially working day of 2010. I swiftly arranged an interview for the next day. When I only heard back to say that other candidates had been delayed due to the adverse weather conditions, I resigned myself to yet another rejection in waiting.

You can therefore imagine (or not) my surprise to finally be offered a position this afternoon. The fact it was via e-mail threw me a little but it was the news I had been waiting for and I walked straight into the lounge to share the news with my Mum and sister.

A fresh start, a blank page, a new routine, new people and a new challenge. Yes you may have heard all this before, but maybe this time around, I will build a reputation for all the right reasons.