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Wow, What a start to the new year it has been. We’re only two thirds of the way through January and I’ve already make a couple of significant life changes and further decisions which will, I’m sure, have life changing impacts upon their realisation.

The first of these major changes is of course “the new job”, yes, that’s right. As of 5th February 2009 I will no longer be employed by PriceMaurice Limited. After a brief and frankly unexpected conversation with Si, a friend of mine from uni, I was told I should email a copy of my CV to J.H. Austin who were looking for a new “Systems Development Manager”, a couple of emails and about half and hour later and a job interview was arranged. Out came the suit and off I went for the meeting, upon arrival I was met by two nice chaps who would be conducting my initial grilling, Alan and Glenn both seemed very friendly and made me feel quite at ease, which I’m sure helped with the interview. Later I would meet Jonathan, the M.D, we only talked for a short while but I found him to be very interesting and look forward to meeing him again.

J.H. Austin sounds like a very interesting place to work and it looks like they’ve got a good couple of exciting projects lined up for me. I’ll be sorry to leave my place at PriceMaurice as it’s such a nice place to work and I’ll be forever grateful to Matt, the MD, for giving me my first real I.T position and the opportunity to gain all of the experience that’s helped me so much. That all being said I’m also really excited to get into a larger network environment and really get my teeth into something a bit more complex than the type of work that is available at PM.

I’m as of yet unsure of whether I’ll be starting to fix peoples computers in my spare time as I did before I worked for PriceMaurice, but I think it’s a distinct possibility. That little bit of extra money is always nice, so bare me in mind.

I’ve also bought a car! woo! Bertha the MK4 1.6 litre 8 valve red VW Golf has been a lot of fun over the last couple of years, but with a new job and an ever increasing maintenance bill I’ve decided to splash out a bit and go for something a bit newer, and here it is;

New ford focus

A new shape 2008 Ford focus Zetec oooooh (but mine is black)

I’m hoping to keep this new car for at least the next four years – mainly that’s because that’s how long I’m going to be paying for it, but hopefully those years will pass mostly mechanic free and it’ll be a great car. If I’m lucky it’ll be as good a car as Bertha has been.

The final change, well, this one is more of a decision to change, is that this year I am determined to move out (as I have previously mentioned) but I’ll keep you posted on that one.

In all, 2009 couldn’t be looking better. I’ve been with Sarah for over 6 months now and couldn’t fell better about it, I feel so lucky that our chance encounter occurred when I think about how easy it would have been for it not to have happened. I really do love her and I honestly don’t think I’ve ever felt like this about anyone before… yes, yes, cliche I know but I find myself trying to spend as much time as I can with her, which isn’t really something I’ve done for anyone else before.

So as Lilly Allen put it; “That’s what makes my life so sexy-fantastic” …well in the radio edit anyway.

Jon