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Afternoon all,

Sooooooooooo, It is getting very close to my little adventure of the Greek Island Zakythnos ( ZANTE!!!!) I am getting excited at the prospect of finishing my placement successfully and then the day after going on holiday!! As well as a holiday after that to Turkey!! Being on placement does have it advantages! You do have more money than when you’re a poor student. I can now afford two holidays and possibly the Leeds festival, good times!!

Not long left now, just three weeks I think. It will be sad when I leave as I have a lot of good memories from here and have picked up some excellent experiences, which will hopefully help me in the future. But now I am concentrating on becoming settled in my new role of CAD technician and becoming the master of nesters. I dropped a few clangers at first but who doesn’t drop clangers at the beginning of a new job??

Nesting, Nesting, Nesting and a little more nesting then a nasty nasty TRO (the dreaded paperwork after making a beautiful nest!!). I have learnt that the salespeople (excluding myself) make a lot of mistakes, which in turn makes the job of the CAD technician a lot harder as they may need to nest the same job 2, 3, possibly 4 times due to the inconsistencies of the salespeople, so this can become very frustrating!! And on top of that there is only Master nester Keith and myself, Protege Nester doing the nesting so this can become time consuming and people wonder why things slow up!!

It is a lot different working in the CAD office as things are still office/computer based but it feels a lot more manual, wearing my work boots, staff top and hard hat!! But it is a good experience as I get to deal with the shop floor employees (Blue collar) on a daily basis and I get to see their motivations to work, compared to those motivations which I saw in the office. And let me say they differ a lot, a lot of people in the works like to do a little amount of work. I must say I don’t think this job is as boring as Mike made out, it is quite interesting! A bit repetitive but you have more freedom and have chance to relax a lot more, but I do not think you need a degree in Business studies to be pro-efficient in this role.

So I have another 2 weeks to become the master nester and hopefully possibly secure a future? Maybe they have a job lined up for me? To surprise me on my last day? Possibly….. who knows….. unlikely.

I have a dreaded TRO on my desk here, so I suppose I will have to get on with this and call an end to todays blog! It’s my leaving do next week and I am once again stopping at my Managers house. I will try to be more well behaved this time and go a bit steadier on the ale, I don’t want a blow out just before ZANTE!! Not much going down apart from my leaving do and my departure, I now have to save up as much money as possible from my final payday and try to scrape through until student loan time in September!!!

Good times. Speak soon on my FINAL blog!!!

Adios