Let's face it - this year has not been the best. I'm not sure if you noticed!
It looks as though the start of next year is also going to be somewhat pants. In the UK they've just identified a new mutation of the virus that makes it easier to catch. Most countries around the world have shut borders to the UK. I can't help but think that the virus mutation will also be in 'most countries' as well, but I know if it had been discovered in another country I'd be hoping we shut our borders, so I'm not judging the rest of the world by any means.
Looks like son will be home schooling again in January as they're saying it looks like the mutation spreads quickly through kids. It's interesting that rather than him leaping up and down with joy at not going back he's genuinely gutted. It's been such a tough time for the kids, he was just getting his feet under the table in his new school as well. If they do shut schools I really hope it's not for long.
There are 66.5 million people in the UK (just googled it). It's taken them 2 weeks to do 500,000 of the first dose of the injection - each of those people will still need a second jab before they are done. My dad's in his 80's and he hasn't even had an invitation to his first jab and he's supposed to be first on the list.
If you just do the maths on that even if people just needed one jab it's going to take them 33.25 weeks to get doses of the jab out to everybody. Now I'm totally remedial at maths and so if you are staggered by ignorant calculation I'm afraid we're both just going to have to get over it! Anyway, in the unlikely event my calculations are correct that's almost 10 months!
Oddly having lived with it for a year overall I'm calmer about the virus - but my main focus is not getting it so I can on occasion go and see my wonderful parents. How I long to just give them a hug and not do a socially distanced dance around them.
As a wider family (brother) we'd all decided we'd stay apart this Christmas. We have also cancelled a trip to see Wisley lit up on Christmas Eve / Eve - deciding it's just not worth the risk.
There is however a shaft of light coming through the clouds (NOW the picture with the blog makes sense). As you know I've been setting up my own business - I continue to do that. But last week was completely bonkers. I didn't mention it, but the week before I got a call from a recruitment company with an absolutely dream job. I mean it was the most perfect job in the world except for one thing - the salary. I decided that I would go for the role as I could make decisions later.
So one interview later - last week I was offered the role. I got my calculator out and was working out if I could do it when I got an email. Out of the blue - I was offered another job with another company - no interview required. Then even as I was reading that offer, one of the people I'd been talking to about my new business asked me if I would consider a full time role with them.
So there you go - although I was keeping an eye on full time jobs as well as setting up my business I wasn't actually doing it with any major serious thought. And suddenly I had 3 potential jobs.
In the end I made a decision - one I hope is the right one - I decided that right now you have to go with your heart. I went for the absolutely dream job with the dodgy salary. I just hope that I can afford to live day to day - but as with so many things right now time will tell. They've also agreed that I can continue working on my new business in my spare time. So that's what I'm going to do. Spend my spare time on my business whilst enjoying doing the most satisfying full time role that I've ever come across.
This will at least leave my options open if I discover I simply can't cope with the salary. I'm not going to take any contracts for my business for the foreseeable as I want to make sure that I'm doing my new full time role amazingly - and it will take some time before things will be ticking along smoothly as I'm setting up a new approach with a blank sheet of paper.
So all in all a somewhat surprising fortnight. But great to be able to inject some positiveness into 2020 at long last. I'm so excited to start this new role, watch this space!
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