How funny to read of my life back then, when I was a drone on the wrong side of the corporate fence. Or just unemployed.

The new home I moved to didn't last either. Blogging has since died and been replaced by Facebook, right?

Reading the musings of my 28 year old self has been enlightening. I really was trapped back in limbo then. Now at 32 I'm just like you: with my professional demeanour; my little flat; my MP3 player; drinks after work; new-found penchant for gin and tonic; my sex-life; my IKEA furniture and my daily grind. I can safely say I'm mostly happier but still as vitriolic as I ever was.

I don't even know if any of you still remember me. A bit like Morrissey. I was pleased to be wrong about his last album, although it's still not as good as "YATQ". This has to be it now, surely?? Please?

I don't know why I've plopped this here. What else is there to say? Quick recap?

Oh, go on then!

In 2007 I temped some more and then out of the blue that Spring an agency phoned me when I was just about to start *yet another* crappy temp job and offered me a way back into tech support.

I've never looked back.

So I began contracting for a fussy old woman of a bloke in Sheerness Docks and that lasted 3 months. Life was suddenly giving something back to me again. I'd come home. To tech.

This is where... I belong!

I did some more 1st line tech contracting on and off that year and then..

In 2008 I landed my current job. I started off contracting there at first, for peanuts (£10/hr) but I really liked the place so I persisted with it. My 6 week contract came to an end and I was mortified. But then, out of the blue six weeks after that, I was back there again on a better wage. Later that Summer I went to Chicago and had a fabulous holiday on my earnings and the cheap (at the time) dollar. And when I came back I was a permanent member of staff. Then I moved out of Mum & Dad's into the flat I have now. At last- adulthood!

In 2009 I was moved up the chain in terms of the work I was doing and then at the end of the year got a promotion and a raise (I'm now a Desktop Support Engineer- mostly second line stuff). I even had a 3-month relationship, which ended amicably. At the end of the year I got a very generous bonus.

This year the recession hit my company and times were hard. But we've come through it, and I've just been given another raise. Life is pretty comfortable. The commute is irritating but you get used to it, and I'm more used to central London than ever before. I still think most of the people walking round it are wankers, though. Ha, possibly even including myself.

So that's it. I made it to the promised land. All that remains now is to get a better flat and settle down with some bloke. Or try to. Even after all this time I'm still not sure if that's the life for me.

I don't know if there will be more entries. This one has been pretty boring, but maybe it will give some hope to people who read it who are in jobs they hate or don't have jobs- things can always improve.

4 years ago I was lost. There was no hope. I was trapped in an endless loop of crappy temporary admin jobs. And I was still stuck at home with the folks. My sex-life was consequently somewhat farcical/non-existent. But that changed :)

I haven't 'sold out' (much) lol but I have found a way to make a wage that doesn't make me want to go out and kill large swathes of the general public. So, remember...

My love
Wherever you are
Whatever you are
Don't lose faith
I know it's gonna happen
Someday
To you
Please wait
Don't lose faith