The future.

Now that my crit is over and gone, I am considering what my future holds.

In the immediate future; there is still work to do naturally, but after that....

I do have a job lined up to start in July, and it was the email I recieved last night from my boss confirming my start date that has got me thinking.

You see, the plan was for me to commute to work every morning. However, the company is moving in September to premises elsewhere in Birmingham, and as anyone familiar with that city will attest, Birmingham is a really, really big place.

Now, the company being the size it is and with the work they undertake I can not imagine it moving out into the outskirts from the city centre where it currently is. No, I imagine it will remain in the Broad Street/ New Street area within walking distance of New Street Station. Which, if my logic is right, suits me fine.

If, however, they do move further out, making it impossible to get there by train each morning, I have only one recourse of action to take. There is absolutely no way I am going to let this job go, so it must remain for me to find rooms closer to my work.

I reckon I could do it. I've survived three years on only £4,000 per annum, my job will be giving me £14,000, which should be plenty enough for rent and services. Obviously things like a land-line telephone and internet may have to go, and it is an absolute certainty that I won't have a television, through choice rather than anything else, and if I can cut back on my other spendthriftery (DVDs, CDs and smart suits being the main offenders), I could not only do that but also perhaps save enough to be able to put myself through my BArch without having to wait two or three years to build up funds.