Awaiting the RFA interview result!

Awaiting the result of the interview took what seemed like an age, checking emails several times a day without any joy. My other pokers in the fire were still there, but cooling down. I didn’t want to invest a week or two off of my island before I knew one way or another. 
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​During the wait we did have postal issues due to the island’s postie being airlifted to hospital, so until a suitable replacement could be shipped in, incoming and outgoing post was backing up. Three weeks after the interview date, a rather lost and bewildered replacement positive delivered a thick, brown A4 envelope from Pompy.

​Eagerly, I handed the envelope to my wife, wanting her to deliver the news. An envelope that thick had to carry good news, right? Nervously, Dee opened the letter, and revealed the result. I had indeed secured a provisional offer to the RFA deck apprenticeship, due to start 4th Jan 2021.

As well as the provisional offer, the envelope contained a thick wad of pension forms, uniform measurement forms, forms galore.
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Next step was to work my way through the to-do list of vaccinations and medicals that were required to turn the provisional into a conditional. I will cover the vaccinations and ENG1 in another blog post.

​Overjoyed to say the least, 8 months of planning and waiting was starting to come into fruition, but this did lead to some soul searching. My mad Christmas thought was solidifying into reality, and with every step forward led me to a path away from my family. This thought process deserves a whole post, so stay tuned for it.