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Actually I did it about a week or go. Public sector is not for me. Very frustrating and the control that suppliers have is ridiculous. I’m not really allowed to publically go into specifics so I won’t. I will say that there are a lot of nice people where I was working though and some very, very bright ones but you can just see the system wearing them down until they toe the line and sit in their little grey jobs just getting on with it.

Maybe in fifteen years time when I’m looking for somewhere to while away the years to retirement, but not now.

Right now I’m moving back into proper security architecture, hopefully a lot closer to the coal face as it were, pissing about with computers and firewalls and things, designing stuff. That’s what I really enjoy doing. And this job is a lot closer to home. Too close for a proper cycle commute although they do have proper cycling facilities. Well, it’s probably a bit further than my old commute to Warrington, I forget how far that was but it was offroad most of the way and quite nice in summer. Plus I guess I have the option of just riding directly there if I’m late, that’d be about 8 miles. I hope I like this job, plus the money is way better than what I’m on now.

I’d like to sort out a few bills we seem to have run up. They just sort of crept up on us, we’ve been lazy and extravagant, spending money on crap and stuff we don’t need and then one day I realised we were always in the overdraft, nothing we couldn’t sort out now to be honest but once we’d noticed it got really hard to reel it back in. I tried to blame my wife but then I realised I was just as bad. The clothes drier is a great example. The old one works OK, you sometimes have to give it a nudge to start but it works just fine. So she went out and bought another one for 250 quid! I didn’t know you could get them that expensive.

And me, I was just browsing amazon for DVD’s and books, once I thought I’d got everything I wanted it clicked purchase without even looking at the price, it was only when the email came through I realised I’d spent 150 quid! Nah, we need to get hold of things as well as having more money. My wife’s wages currently go into a seperate account and we try and forget about it, that money gets used for holidays and car costs (it’s a very effective method for those that are looking for methods of saving money).

We’ll do the same with my new car allowance, I’ll just transfer it into another account as soon as it lands and try and forget about it, that money can be saved up and placed in an ISA of whatever looks the most likely at that time.