One week before I start my training. I have just driven to the area I could potentially be policing, thought I better check it out as I have never really been to that part of the country before. There seems like some nice place, and some not so nice places.
I am getting really excited now, and nervous to. The information pack I was sent included a list of things to take for the first day, I have spent the last two weeks trying to find a proper clothes brush - now where seems to sell them! I ended up buying one off a guy in a small suit shop, his own one, he said he had 2 more at home he could use. Also black boot polish, yellow duster, selotape, an A4 folder, stationary, loads of forms of ID and photocopies OH and gym kit - for the dreaded fitness tests. I have certaininly put on weight since my fitness test last year so I pray i can at least get to level 7 on the fitness test.
I cannot believe it is all happening now, after all the waiting it has come about so quickly!
01 June 2008
12 May 2008
One Sunny Weekend in May!
Totally out of the blue I get a letter – from the police. ‘We would like to conditionally offer you a place on the police training course starting in 1 months time.’ Oh yippy. I am over the moon, but then read on, the division they have assigned me to is the furthest area in the county away from my family and friends, and obviously even further from where I am now living. I am not sure if I should laugh or cry, so I do both! It has been such a long time coming and I have only just got a new job and I worked so hard to get the new job and now finally after over a year of waiting the police want me just as I have started a new job.
Obviously I have a lot to think about, getting myself ready to move and so far from my boyfriend and friends I have here. I decide that I have been through too much not to accept the position and that the new job will just have to survive without me. I calm myself down with a BBQ and a few 'lemonades'. Then decide to start filling in all the forms they have sent me - yes yet more forms! They must be trying to get me into practice for the paperwork side of the police job.
Come Monday I have finally worked up the guts to tell my new employers that I will be leaving. They take it surprisingly well. Fingers crossed they will let me stay till the end of the month and pay me too!
I have applied for police accommodation for the 1st 4 weeks of the training course. Due to the fact I am applying from outside of the county I should get it for free - yippy a month rent free!! Then I have ti find somewhere to live for real. The rental prices are bound to be much higher than I am used to and I don't know anyone in the area I could share with - but maybe it will be fun to have a flat on my own.
So a real mixture of feelings going on right now - excitement, apprehension, nerves and looking forward to new beginnings.
Obviously I have a lot to think about, getting myself ready to move and so far from my boyfriend and friends I have here. I decide that I have been through too much not to accept the position and that the new job will just have to survive without me. I calm myself down with a BBQ and a few 'lemonades'. Then decide to start filling in all the forms they have sent me - yes yet more forms! They must be trying to get me into practice for the paperwork side of the police job.
Come Monday I have finally worked up the guts to tell my new employers that I will be leaving. They take it surprisingly well. Fingers crossed they will let me stay till the end of the month and pay me too!
I have applied for police accommodation for the 1st 4 weeks of the training course. Due to the fact I am applying from outside of the county I should get it for free - yippy a month rent free!! Then I have ti find somewhere to live for real. The rental prices are bound to be much higher than I am used to and I don't know anyone in the area I could share with - but maybe it will be fun to have a flat on my own.
So a real mixture of feelings going on right now - excitement, apprehension, nerves and looking forward to new beginnings.
14 April 2008
Spring Time Madness
What a crazy month! March I was told I was to be made redundant, the business was closing and everyone was getting made redundant, a sad time but equally a great opportunity to find a job I enjoy doing.
So I immediately start looking for another job. The usual Admin jobs there are plenty of them, but boring! An interesting role with the local police force as an intelligence administrator, now that’s not boring! Logistics management job, marketing, business development -Via the local paper and agencies I am going mad applying for everything I know I can do (and that has a half decent wage). I also write to the recruitment department at the police to see if they have any space for me as I am not sure if I want a permanent job or a temporary one. They obviously say they cannot fast track me and I should keep waiting to hear from them around August time!
So I go off to a few interviews for permanent jobs (temporary ones are so insecure). I even apply again for a job as an immigration officer at Stansted Airport.
After a few weeks I am finally offered what could possibly be my dream job. It is business development for a new brand of sports clothing. Perfect with my sales skills and Sport Science degree, rugby experience and general love for sport. So I am all excited and happy I have a start date for the end of April, which gives me time between the old job and the new one. I have also been offered an interview for the immigration job and as a just in case I am going to go to the interview as I know it could take a few months to come through, which will give me chance to suss out the new business development role.
So I immediately start looking for another job. The usual Admin jobs there are plenty of them, but boring! An interesting role with the local police force as an intelligence administrator, now that’s not boring! Logistics management job, marketing, business development -Via the local paper and agencies I am going mad applying for everything I know I can do (and that has a half decent wage). I also write to the recruitment department at the police to see if they have any space for me as I am not sure if I want a permanent job or a temporary one. They obviously say they cannot fast track me and I should keep waiting to hear from them around August time!
So I go off to a few interviews for permanent jobs (temporary ones are so insecure). I even apply again for a job as an immigration officer at Stansted Airport.
After a few weeks I am finally offered what could possibly be my dream job. It is business development for a new brand of sports clothing. Perfect with my sales skills and Sport Science degree, rugby experience and general love for sport. So I am all excited and happy I have a start date for the end of April, which gives me time between the old job and the new one. I have also been offered an interview for the immigration job and as a just in case I am going to go to the interview as I know it could take a few months to come through, which will give me chance to suss out the new business development role.
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