Filling in application forms for your own job is about as low as you can get, I suspect. I have spent the best part of two days, spread over the week, writing and refining my application form. The process will have been worth it only if I end up with a job at the end of it. The number of lemmings who have opted for voluntary redundancy is now rumoured to be approaching thirty. Whilst this is fine from the point of view that there will be less people going for the available jobs, it also means that a lot of very talented and useful folk will be leaving the university for pastures new. As this will lower the level of talent here for some time, it's not so great. In a way, filling up the form has proved something of an insight for me into my own achievements over the past thirty years or so. I can now look back and see how much I have learnt and how much I have done with a somewhat dispassionate eye. Things which seemed very ordinary at the time now appear to have been extraordinary with hindsight. Running all those tiny radio stations in the 90's was hard work and a lot of fun but now I can look back and see just how much Bob and I acheived in those days when we didn't have the technology to do what is now very commonplace. Some of the things I have done here at the university on the Ratio Project seemed pretty simple at the time but, in retrospect, I did a very good job and sustained a very high level of quality over a long period of time. In fact, I only stopped when I was carted off to hospital with my heart trouble. Even that has a positive spin in some ways. It pushed me into retiring from broadcasting and coming to the university full time for a start. Working here has given me so many skills that are more applicable in the real world and, just as an afterthought, paid me more money than radio ever did.
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