Woohoo! I’m still here…

It’s been a while. That seems to be the way I open all my posts lately. I know, I haven’t been saying much. So sue me; I have a life you know, unlike the rest of you basement-dwelling freaks.

Ahem. Yeah, so. Been a while…

A lot’s been going on with me which I didn’t write about because I’ve kind of been dealing with it. The first thing is that I was notified in about mid-March that my job was going to be made redundant. Arrgh, arrgh and double-arrgh. Not the best time for it to happen, to be honest, what with that global economic meltdown and everything.

So, I started applying for jobs. I was applying for jobs more or less the same field as I’m already in, administration. After a few rejections, I started getting some traction and some interviews, partly with the help of the county’s internal job finder service.

I almost ended up with a job working in the central library in Oxford, which looked like it would’ve been very interesting, if a little bit of a dead-end, career-wise; similarly, I was down to one of two for a position with a carer’s advocacy group.

Then, however, I happened to mention to a friend at work that I was being made redundant. My friend happens to be a moderate-sized cheese in the facilities and support department, and she immediately helped me by pointing out a vacant position in one of the social services teams and by throwing her weight behind getting me into the post. In short, I will be starting on 11th May in my new job, just one building over from where I am now, on a significantly higher pay-grade than before. All in all, getting made redundant is probably one of the best things that’s happened to me in a while.

I’m excited, maybe a little nervous, too. The post uses a completely database than the one I’m used to; two different databases, in fact. So, the first thing will be to get trained up in those, but it doesn’t seem like I’ll be thrown in at the deep end immediately, which is good.

According to someone else who works in the building, the team is quite quiet; there’s not a huge amount of stuff to do, although I won’t count on that. In a way, though, a nice quiet job would be just the thing — I could stand to not be on edge all the time wondering what work is going to drop on me today. I suppose what I mean really is a job with routine, as opposed to random bits of work appearing out of nowhere… We’ll see what happens, I guess.

I plan to be making a few more posts here from now on, although I’m staying true to the idea of blogging without obligation: the moment this becomes a chore, something I feel like I have to do, I’ll stop doing it at all, most likely.