This is a good day to look at the big picture and to discuss your ideas with others, dear Leo. As you walk down the street, make sure you stay attentive to what is going on all around you. If you continue to stay preoccupied by one specific issue, you may never see some of the other very important pieces of the greater whole, even though they are obvious to everyone else.
Good advice for everyone I think. Today was part of that peeping my head above the parapet and getting started again. Study day at a conference in my specialty-to-be with a few more hints about whether or not there will be any job opportunities coming up in the next year.
So far I know that me and one other trainee are hoping to do palliative medicine. What has been unknown is the number of jobs. Potentially, there are two jobs available (wouldn't that be marvellous?). However, that depends on the two senior registrars getting all their paperwork and a consultant post to move on to so we can move in at the bottom of the ladder.
Timing wise, this isn't possible before we are supposed to before interviews in three months time. The options are to leave the posts until they have got full confirmation of the two leaving, which would me me hanging on till I can apply for those. Or moving region and apply for jobs in the rest of the UK.
The other is to create a holding post for the two-to-leave, allowing the new recruits in.
As choices have to be submitted in a couple of months time - there is not much time left for them to decide...
In the meantime all I can do is do my best to work hard, do the assessments and work towards the exams in February. The job situation is out of my hands.
