Saturday, June 18, 2005

First Contract

Having spent almost three months, calling agencies on a daily basis, my first contract for over two years fell into my lap. The downside was that it was in West Yorkshire, in Leeds actually, nearly 90 miles away.

The good part was that I would be working again, doing something that I could at last enjoy doing, and not be frustrated by office politics, dictating what I could do, how I did it, and when I had to do it.

The new role was to stand in for an employee of Yorkshire Bank who had been made redundant, while the job was relocated to the Glasgow office. The work involved a server that was then in Leeds being upgraded and relocated to Glasgow.

Monday, March 28, 2005

Moving to Chester

March 2003-March 2005:

Spent most of this time, working too many hours a day, only seeing our new house in the dark. At the end of March 2005, I was offered early retirement, which I took, almost gleefully. The downside, as the following posts will clearly demonstrate, is that I spend most of my working days living away from home, usually in bed and breakfast accomodation, only seeing my home at the weekend.