My employment prayers answered!!!!

Four months after the course (which supposedly has a 100% employment success rate) I have finally got a job! I had 10 interviews out of 33 applications and it paid of at last. A one-in-three hit rate isn't that bad anyway.

I had the interview on Wednesday is Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. They rang me on Friday to say I've got the job!!! I nearly cried when I came off the phone! I was slightly speechless - which is quite an achievement as anyone who knows me will know. I still can't believe it. I had planned to go up to Derby next week for another interview there, but I don't need to now.

It's at The Bucks Herald - a weekly broadsheet. There aren't any daily papers in Bucks for some reason. I've never written for a weekly, but if the daily updating of their website is anything to go by, I'll be on daily deadlines as well. I'll be covering 2 patches - one really poor one (loads of crime) and the other one is an affluent area, so that's cool.

I spoke to the editor of the Oxford Mail where I'm working freelance at the moment and he said they probably won't have made a decsion about the jobs there until Christmas!!! I can't really wait that long and risk a job slipping through my fingers so I think I'll be heading to Aylesbury. Now I've just to find a place to live!

Simon (editor of Oxford Mail) did say that I should make sure the contract says what I want it to say. If the offer isn't any good, don't take it... I suppose it's good advice but I've waited for 4 months for this!! Also I could take it and go back to Oxford if they offer me the job there?? A bit mean, but journalism is a bit of a selfish world...