Well once again I've been a bit slack keeping this updated but better late then never. In a nutshell since I last posted I have passed my final clinical assessment (can't remember if I'd already mentioned this), got all of my marks back for my dissertation and everything else and I'm pleased to say I did myself proud! I've been on electives and spent time in various hospitals and departments up and down the country again and learned lots. I waited quite late on compared to others before I started applying for jobs but once I did the interview invitations started rolling in. It seems there are lots and lots of jobs available at the moment so it's a good time to be qualifying as a radiographer.
Luckily for me a job came up at a hospital I was really keen on and I was invited to interview. It was my first one and I was nervous as hell but to my surprise, they put me at ease really quickly and it went well - so well I was offered a job which I have accepted. I start on Monday which is what brings me back on here because I have been reflecting on the last 3 or 4 years of hard work and big decisions I had to make in deciding what I wanted to do with my life, actually getting a place on the course and then seeing it through, landing myself a job before I'd even graduated. If someone would have told me this was what I had to look forward to all those years ago I'd have never believed them in a million years.
So here I am, ready to start my new job next week and with hopefully lots more good things coming my way in the future. I will see if I can remember to post here on what it's like starting out as a newly qualified but we shall see what happens.
Hard to believe that I am now officially a radiographer :)
