Somewhere between deadlines, meetings, work and real life, this blog went quiet. The work didn’t and neither did the life lessons that came with it. This post is a reflection on a few things I have learned while working full time.

I first started working full time with a lot of energy, and willing to give a lot of myself to my job. Over two years into working full time, there are a few things I have learnt and a few things I would do differently. This is what I would tell myself if I was to start work for the first time. If I were starting a job for the first time all over again, these are the lessons I’d want to hear from day one. 

 

 

Having spent most of my life in the education system, there was always an obvious next step. Progressing onto the next academic year. I grew accustomed to the sense of security of knowing that I would be returning to school or in my later years, university. No matter how difficult life got and the things it threw at me, that seemed to be the one constant and something that helped ground me. Sure there were changes, like going from primary school to secondary school and secondary school to sixth form. Then sixth form to university and these had their own challenges, as all new phases do. But, there was one constant in it all, there was always a clear next step for me, even if it was different to the previous one.