Poll results and so much more!

Hello Internet. Since we last spoke, so much has happened. I feel like I am a conductor to my life and my pew is the couch. I sit here emailing off this, phoning that, and generally taking life by the preverbials all with a cup of tea.

I have been officially offered the position at Ofcom, though, the little dears that they are, it is still provisional contingent on a references and a medical appraisal. Why is this whole process reminding me so much of my application with Antarctica? Is it just because the proposed work location gets bloody cold and dark through winter? Who knows. The other nice little similarity is that they both are very kind to the wallet and, since I have been so awful to my wallet of late, it does deserve a bit of TLC.

However, because I have not yet had the final word on the final word from my dear new best friends at Ofcom, I have held off from making decisions regarding study. This hiatus will very soonly end with the cuttoff day and enrollments happening on Monday or, as I like to call it, "Shit-hits-the-fan-day".

So, as I am want to do, I am going to enlist the power of Internet readership diversity and put the question to you in the form of a user friendly poll. The question is; Should Tangles continue with part time Masters enrollment this year at the same time as taking on a new and very awesome job.

Pros (as I see them) : I want to do this masters and it will really help with progressing with the job. Maybe it is best to just jump in and start swimming like buggery? The job has flexible benefits, which means I could take extra holidays up to around 35 day (including my Birthday! I get my birthday off!), and I could put this leave towards study... plus nights and weekends of course. The first semester there will only be one really full on subject - the other one is maths and with a bit of swatting (away flies!! shoo!!) I should be fine with fairly little actual effort.

Cons (as I see them) : I have just moved to a new country and am finding my feet. This job is really really awesome and I want to do a very good job and impress everyone with how wonderful I am - not treat them to a Tangles Meltdown due to overload. I have indicated to them that it is evening study only - this is not true. It is actually 2 - 8pm Thursday. For the first semester it is just silly maths and I could skip the first lecture and go to the economics one in the arvo (fairly confident about this, I have done it before), and I am hoping that in the future they will be flexible - but would it be better to test the water and get them to love me first?

Previous poll results: How long will Tangles be stuck in the UK?

Results: I will stay in the UK for an average of 1.8 years. Intermesting! We will see. I tend to think that I will be here a bit longer than that, but there is no knowing what will happen, or, as the saying goes, "worse thing happen at sea". Not sure about the relevance, but I have always found the plight of sailors comforting.