Hooray for me. I finally landed a new job. I’ve been stuck in an admin position in the Planning Decisions Unit for nearly two years now. Photocopying planning reports 19 times and collating them into 19 agendas is long gone! While my new post is still going to be an administrative one, it will be working on the very important 2008 London Mayoral elections. It’s a year contract and is a £2,000 pay rise, so the money is probably the best news. I will be working with the team monitoring and liasing with the contractors who have been hired to handle the electronic counting for next year’s elections. I am so excited to finally move out of PDU into a new role. I’m also hopefully going to pick up some new skills I can certainly use such as project management and press liaison.
While I still desire to do research work for an elected official or a think-tank, I feel that this may still be a step in the right direction for me. I may pick up new skills such as those above and the person in charge of the whole team, John Bennett, is a wonderful guy who has been willing to help me with possible job contacts in the past. Who knows? After a year working directly with him he might be able to help me out further with either a position in the Assembly (if he goes back there) or this election work might help me secure something with an elected official. The opportunities seem endless at the moment. If nothing else, it is something new. It is a new challenge and one that I’m willing to take on head-first. It will be exciting at times, especially in the months leading up to the election. I am extremely excited about it. I feel the need to thank my husband, parents, in-laws and even colleauges for constantly encouraging me that ‘something will come along’ even in the darkest days of constant job rejections. I’m certainly going to have a good weekend. I hope you all do as well.
Congrats! That is so awesome!