Embarking on a New Adventure...

In 2011, I took voluntary redundancy from my job as a secretary and began looking after my daughter full time. We were struggling with nursery fees so it seemed like the best idea at the time.  Then I got pregnant again and it seemed that I would now be a stay at home mum until my second child was old enough to go to school.  So I am now potentially out of work for 3 more years and then I would only be able to do part time, as she would go to nursery part time.

Being a secretary by trade and knowing that the majority of administrative jobs are the ones that are being made redundant first, I figured that I am going to need a new set of skills.  What better thing to do than a degree?!  I never had the opportunity to go to University at the age of 18 and if I am honest I had had enough of being in an educational setting and set off into the big world to get a job.  I have always been good at my job as a secretary, but it seems that those skills are not going to get me very far in the future (on their own I mean).

I have a huge interest in Astronomy, but I don’t have a full understanding of what it all means.  I decided that a degree in Natural Science (physics and astronomy pathway) would be what I would like to learn so here I am.  I am looking forward to the course starting and I will be starting to read the first book in the course material this weekend.  Yes, I was always the swotty one in school, had my homework in on time and knew my course material inside out.  Although sometimes that didn’t come across in my exam results.  I panic and my mind goes blank, but I don’t need to worry about that until September.

So here I am, blogging, eagerly awaiting the start of what I see as being the start of the rest of my life.  I do worry that at 28 years old, I could be starting my career a little late, but when I truly think about it the career that I had chosen has become redundant and I need to start again.  I suppose it is never too late to do anything if you really want to do it.

Wish me luck, I am certainly going to need it.

Rachel xxx