I spend all my time sitting at a computer reading about Second Life and following social media trends, currently it’s not as exciting as you would hope (although I do get paid £300 a week to do it) so I thought I’d blog about it!

I am really enjoying working here, it’s so laid back I feel like I could do no work all day and that would be fine! Obviously I can’t act like that but you get the idea, everyone is really chilled out and friendly. Myactualwork involves some cool ideas but we don’t want too many people knowing what we are up to so lets leave it at that! As well as all that I will be handling social networking accounts for the department I work for, potentially the entire University too. So yes I am living the dream, being paid to tweet.

Currently while I wait for the IT guys to get around to meeting with me I am just reading about every aspect of Second Life. Obviously there is only so much I can read so I am supplementing it with a bit of social media research. The actual project I am here for can’t start till we have been able to buy some iMacs in, which is why I do a lot of waiting around for IT since we have to go through them.

With that in mind here is what I have noticed on twitter today…

#recordthatchangedmylife is a silly hashtag. People seem to think that One Direction have changed their life…

It’s a sad day as Ceefax and Teletext is turned off, subsequently everyone is mourning the loss of Bamboozle! 

And finally, and rather hilariously, “National Stalking Awareness Day” is trending on twitter…

So everything has settled down now and I have a job as a Virtual Education Environments Developer, I am also bloody excited to start! I didn’t think I would ever be looking forward to getting up at 6.30am and going to work…

I don’t want to talk to extensively about what the project entails since the internet is a big place, a project like this hasn’t been attempted before and I’d rather not have some other company take the idea and our poor old investors getting nothing in return for their injection of money! I’ll just say that it is quite cool and if you keep an eye on my blog then I’ll try and keep you all in the loop! :-)

I’d spent a very long 7 months trying to find employment in a lot of different industries, attempting to apply my limited skill set (with increasing creativity) to different roles companies were advertising. Eventually it just came down to who I knew! My father was out drinking with an old school friend who is a Professor at the University Campus Suffolk in Ipswich, he mentioned that they had a new project they were looking to get off the ground and that I might be interested. A few months down the line, several meetings and few ideas thrown around and here we are! A cash injection of around £53k to support us and we will be up and running from the 10th of April, I’ve never had a budget before. 

So who would have thought it, just a casual chat turns into a job I am genuinely excited to get up for. I get to make a shopping list (iMacs, Macbook Pros and a DSLR firmly at the top) and we can start on a 2 year adventure into the virtual world of human interaction…

Watch this space. ;-)

So it’s all falling into place!

I find myself with two jobs and they pay well! I also seem to be getting a laptop for each of them so I can work from home. I also have a bloody wonderful girlfriend whom I love very much. She is funny, interesting, witty, intelligent and completely gorgeous. For some reason she is quite fond of me too and for that, I am hugely grateful!

Today it was actually warm outside (hard to believe yes) so Ella and I capitalised and went to enjoy some drinks in the sun. The Cock & Bell in Long Melford for those interested. I can’t wait for more adventures like this to various locations on the planet with this wonderful woman. 

I love her and I want EVERYONE to know it. I’m very proud of her.