It's me! I'm back!

I can hardly believe it’s been so long since my last blog entry!

After being escorted off the premises of my last so-called ‘job’ I went home and emailed my ex-boss from CooperVision, and one of the people who has written references for me in the past, just to let them know that I was back on the job market again and would be needing more references in the future. Within a few minutes I had an email back from my referee from the University (job before CooperVision) asking me to give her a call. We had a chat on the ‘phone, I met her the following week for lunch and she managed to get me a week and a half‘s temp work there …

That was very nearly 18 months ago.

Those of you who have been sharing this blog from the beginning will know that I started writing it to ease some of the frustrations I had working here and no doubt you will be scratching your heads and wondering why on earth I would put myself through the trauma all over again. In fact, I’m doing a completely different job, working with a different team, and rarely see any of the people who made my life so very difficult last time around. I really enjoy what I’m doing, I like the people I’m working with, we’ve moved to a new building so are no longer in the gulag known as ‘Mouldy Boldy’ or ‘Bolditz’ by those who work at this particular University.

And in between the highs and lows of life back in the private sector (the high being a fact-finding mission to Gran Canaria, followed by the Finance Conference there – a brilliant way of getting some winter sun in December 2007 – the low, of course, being made redundant) and re-entering academia I’ve got older, a little wiser and a lot more broke. I’ve been on holidays to Bergamo, Paris, Edinburgh and New York, and have the overdraft to prove the latter. I still have the beach-hut, which needs to be painted, and the cat, who doesn’t.

And I do have a wee bit more time because I actually take a lunch-break! So watch this space - you may be seeing blog entries on a more regular basis from now on.