Update on my life

I decide to treat myself to a MacBook, I have always wanted one, but I have always been a Windows machine. During this crazy pandemic, I have decided that I would like to learn something new and I thought working with a MacBook would benefit me in my personal life and work. The last time I did a blog was 8 years ago when my little boy was born and there have been several ups and downs. In the last 8 years, I have moved company’s three times and I have had a bout of anxiety. This hit me very hard, to the point of taking medication. during my 7 weeks on sick leave, I spent 3 weeks sat on the couch watching crap TV to get through the time I was having conversations with myself in a negative manner and I honestly believed that the outcome was bad even through everything was 👍 I got to a point where I had to do something to get me out of this flunk, I started by taking walks round Pennington Flash, this is a lovely park in Leigh, it gives me time to clear my head and to think about my next steps. To be honest the medication helped. I’m not taking away what I achieved to get myself on track. The underlying issue was that my job at G4S was the main issue with my anxiety, this was an awful company to work for and the management was a shamble, so the first think to do was get a new job. I was even contemplating leaving IT all together, in the end this would have been a big mistake. I had a number of interviews and they were looking for a Technical Service Desk Manager and everyone who knows me, I’m not technical, but I am a fantastic people’s person and enjoy person management. The opportunity to work for a Law firm came up and this is something I have never thought about dong. I had the first interview, and it went really well, I felt so confident. The second interview was with the Head of Service Delivery and the IT Director, both of these were based in London, but the Head of IT Service Delivery made a special visit to Manchester for the interview. Again, the interview went amazing well. To the point of being offered the position of IT Service Desk Manager to which I accepted. It is a fantastic job. I love it. I have flourished in this role. I have gone from managing a team of 6 to being responsible for a team of 18 with Team leaders, I am visiting the London office every month and have a great relationship with my manager. I have take a complete diversion with this blog thread. I feel so much better for writing stuff down, I still have the old day where my anxiety gets the better of me, but generally im in a really good place.