Another day

I had a good day today at work, I managed to make some progress with the postcode database I've been working on. It's worked correctly for a few days just it needs tidying up and made more user friendly. If I had more days like today I'd be happy, the day still wasnt perfect. Antony is really getting on my nerves, tries to stick his nose into everything. I understand he wants to try and stay but there just isn't the money. That and I think half the other people who work near him would leave.

Yesterday was the worst for him going on, after I came out of a training course and only had 30 minutes to finish some stuff off. I told him I was in a rush but he just kept going on and on about looking at a program finance were having a problem with, mentioned several times I would talk to him about it the following day as it was now 4:45 , told him to shut up in the end. Don't know if he heard properly but did finally shut up.

The worst thing about where I work is I just cant concentrate at all, open plan offices are rubbish. I just cant concentrate on anything without something distracting me. Some people can just shut off to everything around them but I can't. Does seam worse now since I moved desks, people surrounding me, thought it was OK initially but that was when I was answering the phone more. Now I'm trying to concentrate on stuff realised I just cant. Did mentioned working away from my desk one day a week but havent been able to yet as there is nowhere to work where it would be any better at the moment other than maybe home. Not sure if they would agree to that, even though the couple of days I have worked at home I have ended up getting more done in one day than I would in 3 at work.

Saw a job advertisied in the Northern Echo yesterday working for Wear Valley Council, 2 jobs really but 1 was working with databases and the other was a Network Officer. The Network job looked more interesting and was over £20,000 think it is also based only a mile from my house. Think I will ring up for more information. May not apply but just interested in what exactly it is. The money, the location and possibly the promotion path looks very interesting. Compared to mine, money is crap for the knowledge I have, traffic is getting worse and worse by the day to Durham and then absolutely no route to promotion in IT. We have been told that there will be opportunities over the next year or so but really can't see anything coming our way. If you live in London yes but not up here where no one in London takes much notice of the plebs on the ground. Its gonna be years before the stuff they are proposing takes place, as everything is always delayed. We are looking at 2007 at the abolute earliest for the new systems to appear, realistically 2008/09 :-(

Wish I could work from home self employed, just not sure exactly what I would provide or how to go about it. I know lots about many parts of IT but not sure any sort of expert on anyone subject. I get bored sticking to one thing, so learn what I need to and move onto learning something else. Maybe I could be an IT consultant of some kind but again not sure exactly how to go about this. I've seen enough consultants who know nothing and make a fortune, I can talk a load of bollocks as well as anyone when it comes to IT but I prefer to have some idea what I'm actually talking about.