Control.

Sorry to keep you all waiting for this latest post, but I've been a bit busy.  Mainly writing a new CV in a bid to help me secure a new job if and when I am served my notice by my current employer.  You see, I have a CV already but it's completely focussed on detailing my experience in civil engineering so the company can use it when bidding for work... "look, we have this chap and what he doesn't know about highway design isn't worth knowing." that kind of thing.

Problem is; that's not much good when applying for a job in the UK where the highways element of the civil engineering industry is sat on the bare bones of its arse.  So I've had to create a CV which really sells my transferrable skills and it isn't until I've done this that I actually realise what I can offer a prospective employer.  And that's a bit of a confidence booster after taking a metaphorical roundhouse kick in the knackers - I know my employer rates me, but market demand has forced their hand.  I'm a realist and truly understand the carry on, but it's difficult not to ask "Why me?  I work hard!"

Anyway, let's move on from that, eh?

I always have a couple of CDs in the car in case the radio leaves me with a choice between Chris Moyles massaging his own deep-fried ego or Alan Brazil pretending to know about the finer details of Association Football.  I couldn't decide what I wanted to listen to this morning so I ran a finger across the CDs and stopped randomly (they're in alphabetical order so maybe subconsciously it wasn't so random?) on Joy Division's final album "Closer"; the work which many see as Ian Curtis' suicide note.

Joy Division's 'Closer'

Sounds depressing, right?  Wrong.  Okay the mood is sombre and the lyrics, in hindsight, reveal a tortured soul... but it's such a powerful album.  I was driving to work and for once wasn't in any kind of rush; I was too busy absorbing the lush production and thinking: "Wow.  This is fucking amazing."  I don't like to swear, but I'm a believer in accurate reporting.

Many can identify Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and it's a fine track, but those who don't delve any deeper into their other work - in my humble opinion - are really missing out .

Depending when you're reading this, I'll either be in bed asleep dreaming of great things to come, on the train to London, on the tube to Heathrow airport, having a beer at Heathrow airport, in the air or in California.  Unless you're lazy and let your blog reading slip in which case I'll be back in England... with a wife and kids if you end up going through a really deep period of blog-neglect.

I'm gonna go now and might not write while away; not on a keyboard anyway.  Let me know which album(s) make you say 'Wow!'...