A post not about job applications but the original intent of the blog: changing jobs.

Back from leave I find in my absence that a request I put in just a few hours before I departed had been accepted.

Since a colleague left last year her post has remained vacant while management have tried to decide whether to replace her, or try having some form of 'digital' librarian, or something else.

Finally, with some slight reorganization of everyone's roles, they've chosen not to go the digital route. I don't think anyone's too sure whether that's good or bad.

The practical upshot is that an opportunity has arisen internally for me to change subject areas. It's happened before but either the subject hasn't grabbed me or else some of the 'issues' associated with the job have been something I've not wanted to face. Of course, I may just be getting old and fearful of change! (No motivating things like extra pay or anything!)

I thought about it a great deal, especially in the light of it probably being a tougher arena to work in in many respects, but if my job applications do fall through it would be one way of getting the stimulation of new challenges.

Anyway, I put in the request, and I've returned to find that senior management are ok with it. So that should happen a little later in the year. Unsurprisingly (perhaps), my six colleagues were then given the opportunity of moving into my subject areas: no takers.

Of course, all sorts of questions arise like would I have asked to change if I hadn't half thought it wouldn't matter anyway? (Possibly not.) Was it a way of winding up my boss by asking to switch, him advertising my post, and then leaving anyway? (I don't think that was the case - if I leave, that will happen anyway). And does it make it harder for the two or three possible internal promotees to make the step up? (I decided I couldn't factor this into what I wanted to do.)

So one way or another, I'll be changing jobs in the near future. I guess there's no escaping this blog after all!