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Wow! It’s been almost 9 months since I last posted. I am ashamed.
Basically, last year was a really bad year overall. The deteriorating economy affected many people, including me. In order to avoid redundancies and struggling with financial issues, my employer had introduced pay cuts in April. Unfortunately, this did not help and by the end of November, the company went into insolvency and I became unemployed.
Thankfully I had already been for a job interview prior to this and had been informally accepted for a new job (many thanks to Ian for this).The only caveat was that the job was not for web developer which I preferred and it was based in Glasgow and would mean relocating back to Scotland …
After becoming unemployed, I searched for suitable jobs locally for the first few weeks, but it soon became apparent that with the fragile economic climate, there weren’t that many jobs within reasonable distance. With no income and no redundancy pay to support me, my hand was forced and I accepted the Glasgow job offer.
I moved in with family and started the new job in the new year. Other than my clothes and a few essential items, all my remaining belongings are boxed up and stored away which, at times, feels like I’m staying in a hotel. However I’m grateful to the family for putting up with me and for having a full paid job. As I said, it’s a departure from what I was doing before so time will tell how I get on.
In the meantime, I hope to get back in to blogging, creating and finishing the photo blog site which I’ve been intending to do for over a year now and finally to be more contributing to the DigitalOutbox tech podcasting website.
I can’t imagine anyone reading this blog anymore (can’t blame you to be honest) but hopefully with frequent content, I might attract some readers soon. Ciao for now.