Multiple milestones on the menu

2026 has been one of those years where an unusual assortment of notable (to me at least) personal and professional(ish) milestones have landed. It has been the 30th anniversary of my graduation with a joint honours degree in English Literature & Medieval History (a degree during which I interacted with a computer – a Word `Processor at that – exactly once) from an institution now known as the University of South Wales. It is 25 years since I started my job as Website Manager at the Economic and Social Research Council in Swindon. A job I consider the start of my whole ‘internet of public service’ career. It is 20 years since I wrote my first ‘proper’ blogpost. I have – inevitably – already blogged about that bit of blogging. It is 10 years since I peaked professionally with the launch of the work I was a part of at the Office for National Statistics. …and as I said yesterday it is also a decade since I sent the first jobs newsletter. A more recent milestone is that it is five years…

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