Things seem to be looking up for me at the moment, there have been some exciting things happening.
As any regular readers of the site might know, I was made redundant from my position as court security officer at the Hexham Magistrates Court back in April, when the current government in its “crackdown on crime” decided to close the court and move all the business to Newcastle.
I personally thought that was a ridiculous decision, not simply because it put me out of a job, but because the nature of the court area meant that for some court users who are dependant on public transport, attendance at a court for whatever reason would require an overnight stay in a hotel.
Anyway, enough of that.
Personally it was probably a good thing for me that I stopped working there, I was becoming lazy and complacent – it was all too easy to just turn up, switch my brain off for the day then go home. That isn’t good for me, I need things to do.
A few weeks ago now, the local job center rang me up and told me to apply for a job they had found. It was a position as a web developer with a fairly local company which works with biometric security products. Really interesting, cutting edge products.
To be honest, I didn’t hold much hope in getting the job, but I put in for it anyway.
A couple of days later, I got a call from the company, asking me to come in for an interview.
The interview went fairly well, but I still felt I had little chance of getting the job – there were other people to be interviewed later and again, while the position seemed like a good one, I didn’t think I stood much chance of being selected.
Couple of weeks passed, in one of which I received a call from the company saying they were still in the selection process and to just hang tight.
Then on the 24th of last month, I got a phone call, would I mind answering a few more questions over the phone please?
Of course not. I answered the questions as best as I could, hung the phone up and thought “Ahh well.”
Quarter past five that night, the phone rang again. Would I be interested in taking an initial three month probationary contract with a view to making it a permanent position at the end of that contract?
Of course I would. I start on Monday 5th of December. I’m excited, nervous, terrified and strangely confident. I’m excited about the challenge, nervous about meeting all these new people, terrified I’ll find I have been fooling myself with my ambitions of moving into IT, but confident in a strange kind of way as well.
When all is said and done and the moment is upon you, you just have to move, don’t you? If you move with confidence and allow the other emotions to temper you rather than rule you, that critical first step stands a much better chance of landing properly, rather than collapsing and tripping you over.
I’m not planning on tripping over.My period of being gainfully unemployed is at an end.
The projects I have been working on I will still be working on. The deadlines I have set are still deadlines I am aiming for.
