I seem to write in this blog very sparingly, mostly when I stumble across it again or when I'm very bored. Today, I stumbled across it after looking back at my time at Uni and running for VP Comms Officer at the University of Lincoln Students Union - a very good few weeks at Uni. But, I've decided that I'm going to try and write more often, and try and make it...fairly...interesting.
Things are still going very well for me, and I'm currently very busy with my job at LSP. A re-structure at work has meant that I am now the only Communications Officer so am dealing with all internal and external communications. It's going well although I am finding that in a month which seemed to be fairly quiet for everyone else, I feel run off my feet.
I'm currently searching for Lincolnshire organisations and individuals who want to support our local and talented elite athletes who are hoping to make it to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, so if anyone knows of any, pass them my details! Things with Lincolnshire 2012 are going well although are secondary at the moment to the LSP Annual Report, the launch of the new newsletter, nominations for the Lincolnshire Sports Awards 2010 and applications for the Lincolnshire Elite Athlete Programme (LEAP) 2011. Like I said, fairly busy at the moment!
I've also started a health kick this month (two days in and it's going well) - bananas for breakfast, salad for lunch, and salad for dinner...sounds great doesn't it. I'm actually writing this at the minute when I'm supposed to be going for a run - talk about procrastinating. I am determined to get fitter though, especially considering I work at a Sports Partnership!
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Monday, 4 January 2010
Start of a New Era
My last blog was ages ago (May 2009), just before I finished University - I wasn't sure what I was going to do next, or where I was going to go.
A lot of my friends went home in the Summer, and I did too, for about 3 weeks. And a week of that was on holiday in Rhodes. I had decided I really didn't want to stay at home in Boston, and luckily had a job interview for a video production company in Lincoln called Blueprint: Film the day before going on holiday in July. Luckily I got the job, and started working for the company as their Marketing Officer for two days per week at the end of July.
The job was good; I was promoting something I thoroughly enjoyed, the people were lovely and the ambition of such a small company was apparent. However, the lack of organisation of such a small company with very little structure was reflected in the job; I had to take in my own laptop every week and was only working two days per week in what should have been a full time job.
In early October, I saw an advertisment for an Internal Communications Officer and an External Communciations Officer at the Lincolnshire Sports Partnership. The job involved sport and journalism (which seemed pretty perfect for me), was nearly the double the pay at Blueprint, and was a much bigger organisation. I applied for the post thinking I'd have no chance of getting an interview, and when I had an interview for both posts, I truly thought I'd messed the first one up. The second one however, went pretty well and at the beginning of November, I was offered a job as a Communications Officer (a mixture of Internal and External) at LSP.
Even though it was fairly hard to leave Blueprint after such a short period of time, the opportunity was too great to miss and in November I began working for LSP. Since then, the job has been fantastic. I have been placed in charge of Communication for Lincolnshire 2012 in the run-up to the London Olympic Games, and am currently in the process of organising the Lincolnshire Elite Athlete Programme (LEAP) Presentation Evening which celebrates the elite sporting performers throughout Lincolnshire.
As well as all of this, I am now living in Lincoln with my boyfriend Ben, and will be moving into a new flat in a few weeks. We've just had Christmas and New Years in Wakefield and Boston respectively, and life in general is extremely good.
Considering I had no idea what I wanted to do a few months ago, I'm very happy at the moment. Who knows what the next few months will bring?
A lot of my friends went home in the Summer, and I did too, for about 3 weeks. And a week of that was on holiday in Rhodes. I had decided I really didn't want to stay at home in Boston, and luckily had a job interview for a video production company in Lincoln called Blueprint: Film the day before going on holiday in July. Luckily I got the job, and started working for the company as their Marketing Officer for two days per week at the end of July.
The job was good; I was promoting something I thoroughly enjoyed, the people were lovely and the ambition of such a small company was apparent. However, the lack of organisation of such a small company with very little structure was reflected in the job; I had to take in my own laptop every week and was only working two days per week in what should have been a full time job.
In early October, I saw an advertisment for an Internal Communications Officer and an External Communciations Officer at the Lincolnshire Sports Partnership. The job involved sport and journalism (which seemed pretty perfect for me), was nearly the double the pay at Blueprint, and was a much bigger organisation. I applied for the post thinking I'd have no chance of getting an interview, and when I had an interview for both posts, I truly thought I'd messed the first one up. The second one however, went pretty well and at the beginning of November, I was offered a job as a Communications Officer (a mixture of Internal and External) at LSP.
Even though it was fairly hard to leave Blueprint after such a short period of time, the opportunity was too great to miss and in November I began working for LSP. Since then, the job has been fantastic. I have been placed in charge of Communication for Lincolnshire 2012 in the run-up to the London Olympic Games, and am currently in the process of organising the Lincolnshire Elite Athlete Programme (LEAP) Presentation Evening which celebrates the elite sporting performers throughout Lincolnshire.
As well as all of this, I am now living in Lincoln with my boyfriend Ben, and will be moving into a new flat in a few weeks. We've just had Christmas and New Years in Wakefield and Boston respectively, and life in general is extremely good.
Considering I had no idea what I wanted to do a few months ago, I'm very happy at the moment. Who knows what the next few months will bring?
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