It's uncanny really that I should be posting this on the very same day Stevie G posted his news about his sterling secondment success as I have news of a similar ilk myself.
A fair few of you that have read my postings in the past will know that I have spent the past couple of years or so pursuing advancement in the workplace. Well, finally it happened... well, sort of. A week past Wednesday I was told that I had been selected for a six month secondment to Newcastle Crown Court as a Court Clerk. When asked if I would be interested, I had blurted out an uncontrollable excitable YES!!!! before the sentence had even finished.
The most difficult thing has been keeping the news under my hat for the past ten days or so. I was asked to keep schtumm (I love the fact the the spell checker offered tumescent or scrotum as alternative options for schtumm) until details were finalised, even posting on the web was a little risky as I know a couple of former colleagues may well stumble their way upon this page from time to time. Thankfully however, they broke the news to my team yesterday and I am now looking forward to starting my new job on 10th November.
My New Works' GaffIt may only be a six month temporary posting but it's a real opportunity for me to try and land the job properly. I came fairly close to getting the job at the last round of interviews and I think this is why I have been picked this time around for the temporary post. So who knows? It may become a permanent fixture.
Ever since I discovered that being a Court Clerk at the Crown Court required no legal training it became an ambition of mine to have a crack at the job so it's needless to say that I'm thrilled at the opportunity to get up close and personal with the likes of thugs, drug dealers, murderers, rapists and Joey Barton. And hopefully I'll get to realise my ambition of being rendered in a chalk sketch...
Of course, I'm aware that you should always be careful what you wish for and I'm under no illusions that it's gonna be easy but after nearly nine years of doing the same old thing I feel more than ready for a new challenge.