Placed!

I went for a placement interview today at James Cook University Hospital and was phoned this evening and told I had the job! I'm in two minds about this success really: ideally I wanted a placement with a computing company (e.g. Serco) but realistically I suppose there aren't that many computing companies in the locality, and I need to stay in the locality (I want to, I love where I live!), so perhaps (looking forward) getting some experience of database maintenance/ website development in a non-computing company is more relevant to the local jobs "market". The placement within the spinal injury clinic of the hospital (the largest hospital in Europe- 26 Miles of corridors!) begins in July and (as far as I can tell) involves doing the above in a very confined space-an office the size of a cupboard! Well, almost. It's not as bad as my cupboard "office" at home. I don't think my programming knowledge will be fully utilized, but those are the breaks: it will be nice to have a "rest" from the hard stuff in a way. And who wants to be doing the hard stuff for 10K anyway?

It's funny, because when I left my job in the civil service, I did it in order to go to University, but I had intended to study to become a nurse. Strange how I'll actually end up where I thought I'd end up, just in a different role!