A job, a job!
Wednesday, September 5th, 2001Hi there,
It’s hard to believe that I could feel so glad to be getting out of this extended holiday that I’ve been having – but I really am. Actually, job-hunting is far too much of a pain to make it a true holiday and when the agent called today and said I had the job, the first feeling was profound relief… No more CV’s to mail out and long explanatory emails to write, no more fickle job agents to speak to…. Yee-ha! 
The job in question, is with a consultancy firm in Holburn and is thankfully very close by as London travelling goes. Our flat is about 5 minutes walk from the Central Line tube station and they are on the same line, even closer to their station than we are to ours. I reckon it’ll be about 25 minutes door-to-door at worst. The company is called Tikit (no you won’t have heard of it!) and they consult to law firms. Only.
As the third member of their rather small (think elite 
) VBA team I’ll be going around to clients quite a lot of the time, doing work on their automated Word templates and document management systems. As well as this being new to me, there’s a lot of scope to branch out and learn other things too so there should be enough to keep me interested for a while.
We’ve also completed the bookings for a holiday to SA in January – for those of you who do your planning long in advance! We’re using the return-half of our current tickets to fly out on the 20th of January, and have bought another set of open-returns leaving SA on the 2nd of February. That little trip will already be taking my leave 2 days into the red, so other travel will be restricted to the weekends for a while! We aren’t getting too ambitious with European travel until the cash flow improves but we’ve used the good weather and long evenings to explore our surroundings quite a bit on foot, and lovely Holland Park is a favourite destination.
With the job in mind, things are definitely looking brighter now, even as the days start to get a bit chillier. Tom is settling down well into his work and concentrating on his image of being the person to go to with tough questions… and of course it won’t be long now before he’s on a train to the nearest airfield to fulfil his flying dreams once more.
Till next time…
cheers,
Julie
