My Career Has Taken Many Turns

I have been in the Black Country now for sixteen years. It’s bizarre as that is longer than I stayed at school and yet it remains so fresh and new. In fact, I was at a school reunion last weekend and it was great seeing everyone grown up as I haven’t seen any of them since the day I finished school. I’m very talented about being naughty at losing contact with old friends and not staying in touch. I appear to find that you think ‘I wonder how so and so is’ and suddenly comprehend that you have not heard from them in five years and feel too guilty to pick up the phone. Thank the Lord for social networking!

I travelled up here initially when I started freelancing when I was working for IBM on a project for the Midlands Electricity Board which was massive fun. Since then my career has taken a lot of changes in both job and location, but these days I am running a firm that offers SEO and IT support services to small business in the Black Country area and the larger West Midlands. It means that I can work at home which is really the one place I’ve ever wanted to work. I have been lucky enough that contracting has allowed me to travel to other places and I’ve been to Brentwood, Coventry, Newcastle upon Tyne and, most glamorously, Canberra before an all too short return to the North East.

But I love being in the Black Country and getting out and exploring it. It really is very beautiful, not unlike my native Surrey, but different naturally in that we are slap in the centre of the Industrial Revolution. We do not have to move far to be surrounded by the signs of bygone times. This part of the Black Country was famous for chain and glass construction. The chains and anchors for the Titanic were made here and the movement of them to the railway was recently re-enacted for a Channel 4 documentary. There are also canals everywhere you go linking the coal, iron and steel making areas to the wider world.

Much of it has now gone of course, although bespoke metal bashing and steel product manufacturers still exist. The up to date Black Country now builds around small industrial businesses, high tech services and some reliance on the motor industry which continues t be prominent in the West Midlands with Jaguar Land Rover, and Rover also making a low level return.

For myself, I am more than satisfied now working for myself, using the knowledge that I’ve picked up in my career and using them on my own terms. I was trained how to do IT support many years ago when I was at British Gas and used a break from programming to try something fresh, and that has dwelled with me through the period where I have been able to fix problems for colleagues I’ve been working with quickly and without the need to call out the support teams. SEO I have picked up in later life and have discovered that it is entirely suited to the way I like to work and have always had an aim to do as I have always loved creative writing.

So for the time being, I will remain focused on SEO with a smidgen IT support as and when necessary.

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