Firstly I need to apologise for the radio silence, I had hoped to blog a lot more about how my experiences with self-learning. The self-learning has taken a bit of a back seat in the last couple of weeks because the good news is, I have started a new job. It has been a surprisingly quick process from the interview to being offered the job. The slightly tricky part was going through the various checks that my new employers were asking for. The tricky part was trying to track down someone from one of my previous employers for a job reference. The company that I used to work for no longer exist, they have been bought over/sold/evolved into another company. Fortunately, I was able to supply one person who still works there to provide a suitable character reference. I started work on Monday as a Test Analyst. I will be doing "System Testing" for a Testing services company that is doing the testing for a large financial company. I have worked in a similar company before so I am re...