Well I’ve just finished up an extended stay at the Sunday Business Post (as you may recall it was originally for a month but I was asked to do a few extra weeks).
Simply put the stint has been absolutely brilliant for me; the experience of working in an actual newspaper is priceless, I was given real work to do and treated like any other member of staff (while being given a little wiggle room at time in terms of the odd mistake!) and the staff there were brilliant, friendly and just plain nice.
I’ll talk about the whole thing further at another time (hopefully during the week) but I’ll quickly say that despite my initial nerves about going in it is easily the best experience I’ve had to date.
So what now? Well a few weeks at the Village magazine, starting tomorrow… keep on moving.
I’m not sure what to expect at all, but it should be interesting. Fingers crossed I’ll be given the chance to get stuck in (and I get the impression I will), and given that it’s a politically-focused publication, it’ll certainly offer a fresh challenge and perspective on things.
(I must learn to stop neglecting this blog; I promise to be more attentive from this week!)