Current mood:	excited
Entry tags:	games workshop, life, work

A change is as good as a rest ...
... so how about 2 major changes in as many months? So life has turned a little, shall we say, upside down of late, but in a good way. A really, really, awesomely good way.

Those of you who know me well will know that since leaving uni and moving in with ms_haze I've worked part time at Chesterfield College, running their IT helpdesk, whilst at the same time coming home in the afternoons and slogging away either freelance editing and writing or doing the same thing for myself. It's been quite a prolific arrangement, and whilst I haven't made enough money to give up the day job, I have written games that I'm really proud of.

Anyway, all this changed back in September when I moved jobs, giving up the part time work in favour of full time work at the local NHS trust. I won't bore you with the details, but it revolved around chemistry and stats and not at all games design or editing. Why I made the switch revolved a lot around my increased commute following our move, the need to pay the mortgage and a general dissatisfaction with my previous day job and a growing realisation that freelancing and games design would only ever be a hobby, not a viable career.

But no sooner had I started at the hospital than I got another interview, this time with Games Workshop. This would be my 5th or 6th interview for an editorial post with them in about 4 years, so much so that I'd begun to not only lose count, but also joked with friends and interviewers alike about my annual interview with GW. Each time, of course, the interview was unsuccessful and I went back to my day job a little disappointed.

Of course this time was different. This time I was a week into a shiny new job that I could walk to, and was feeling pretty content with myself. So naturally I get offered the job.

I started today, as the new sub-editor of White Dwarf, the GW website and the games development team. It's gonna be helluva hard work, but it's going to be great fun! As my mum always says to me - I've been preparing for this job for the past 15 years of playing Warhammer!