Well it’s been a while Baby-Green readers, and what a while it has been.

As Nicky said in her last blog entry, I was looking into something very good for us, and that very good thing is now here. Not sure how many of you people knew, but I was offered a job for a company in Basingstoke called Capita, doing 2nd line IT support. Obviously the thought of a job in Basingstoke with more pay is a good thing, and I was much looking forward to the prospect.

However, Xerox couldn’t let that be. I was sat down in one of the meeting rooms at work one day after going in my notice to leave, thinking I was going to bollocked for the Severity 1 incident which had just happened and something I had or hadn’t done, but in actual fact, it was quite the opposite.

They offered me a job as a Technical Architect….sounds good doesn’t it.
Obviously I accepted the offer, which now means, I am no longer working on the helpdesk answering the phone, but working on the background solutions such as the server deployment and configuration, working out new ways to combat technical problems in the oh so complicated place that is QinetiQ.

Also, it means I will get to go to other contracts of Xerox and work on those too when my skills are required.
All of this boils down to more money, and great job satisfaction for me, as this is the kind of role I’ve been looking forward to doing since I wanted to work in IT. I’m not going to get specific about the salary here or anything, but people who need to know already know, and if I say it will make our lives much easier, that’s all you need to know.

Perks of the job include company mobile and laptop, along with a 2nd laptop for accessing QinetiQ stuff, and then I get a monthly car allowance to pay for the mileage etc I do. The only downside so far, is I have to go on a 1 week training course in January, away from home. Did I mention I get business cards