Hows the new job going?
by Gary on Nov.07, 2009, under Personal, Work
I keep being asked the above question, so thought it’d make a quick post to explain my feelings…
As some of you might know, I recently got made redundant and joined the unemployed masses for a short while.
I was out of work in total for two months, five weeks of which was officially time off in lieu of notice, so my total office time out of work was like a month 
I got a job at a very local company (ten minutes walk from home) and to be honest, it totally rocks, I took a pay cut but to be working so close to home, popping home for lunch etc and well pretty much not using my car except for the weekends really rocks and is well worth the paycut.
I have now been there for a week under two months and well to be honest I have no idea why I stayed away from home for so long! working for SRM was great and I miss a number of my old work mates, but the last project was not the best fun in the world and being away from home from Sunday evening till Friday evening really was not the best, Tom and I are getting on okay and it is really nice to actually spend some time here.
I am being more social than ever before, spending a lot of time at a local lounge-bar which is nice place, with a funny landlord.
So all in all, it was a good move, I feel better for it…
