I was looking for a job
…and then I found a job. But I am not in any way miserable now. In fact I’m quite pleased and excited. I now have a contract to do freelance data entry work for the Life in the Suburbs project. This will involve working from home transcribing parish registers of St Botolphs Aldgate (where the saddler Thomas Harrison lived) and Holy Trinity Minories. I’ll be under the supervision of Gill Newton, who has done some really exciting work developing a phonetic algorithm to match similar sounding names. The hours are short and flexible, the pay is really good, and the work is very well suited to my skills, experience and interests. This should make my life much easier in lots of ways.
Obviously I won’t be blogging about anything that goes on in the project, or posting any of the data, so you’ll just have to wait until the results have been published to see what the researchers have found. Apart from that there probably won’t be much change to my blogging – or at least my posts won’t be any less frequent than they already are.
Comment by Ted — 8:29 am, 29 August 2008 [permanent link to this comment]
Congratulations! Is that the project Phil Baker is involved in?
Comment by Gavin Robinson — 9:38 am, 29 August 2008 [permanent link to this comment]
Thanks! Yes it does involve Phil Baker and Mark Merry, although they’re at the London end and I’ll be working on the Cambridge Population Group side.