Having completed my 100 hour NWE contract working as a language learning materials producer, I now have more friends, more work experience, a better looking CV, and most importantly, another contract with my employer.

They liked my work, so they decided to give me some more work to do. Although I’d love to work full time for them, at the moment continuing working on a part time basis is the best possible result I have achieved.

I am one of the 4 people out of the original 12 who have been offered another contract since completion of our project. Honestly, before I started my first hour, I thought this was going to be a boring job – judging from the job title – language learning materials producer, what’s fun about that?

I was wrong. It turned out that it depends very much on myself whether I want to make my job exciting or not – there’s always things to do-

Exploring. Learning. Talking to others.

They are what have made my job exciting. It sounds so simple, yet sometimes simple things are the hardest to realise.

Having a job is nothing but a beginning. The important thing is to know when to take the next step – to develop your skills, to show what others don’t have, and to let your role grow from someone who does the job, to someone the job needs to have.

And you don’t have forever to prepare. If you don’t take your chance, others will. Simples!