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?