Almost a year

Can't believe I'm almost at the end of my first year.  The workload has been increasing, and now I'm endeavouring to keep all my balls in the air.  The case load has steadily increased, and am now doing all sorts of fun things - the cases come in from scratch, and I'm settling them, raising them, dealing with them whilst being litigated, organising cover (as yet still can't appear)... all under the watchful eye of my managing partner.

Now much of the work is about organisation.  There's all sorts of deadlines which run beside the need to manage each file to stay on top.  I'm discovering lots of things that I don't know how to do (and I thought I knew it all) so luckily there's loads of support where I work.

I'm looking forward to the next exciting stages.  There's the PCC to organise, and of course, there's my enrolment to apply for.  I've been warned that in the 2nd year I'll be swamped and unable to cope, so I've been working on all sorts of strategies and systems to make sure I'll be able to cope.  We'll see...!