Bye for now...

So, I've got to stop blogging. Gutted.

It was the perfect way to reach out to people and say 'Hey. I can write. Someone employ me. Please!'

But now I have a job, I have to think more long-term.

Say I want a job on one of the nationals in the next year or so. When you work for a big paper, you're part of that brand.

I've been advised that my blog is a little too honest, a little too opinionated...and a bit self-indulgent.

Which was fine when I didn't have a job. I had nothing to lose.

But in a year or so, when I'm looking for another job, a future employer could look at my blog and think 'Hmmm. This girl is a bit too honest/out there/liberal/gobby/in your face' (any or all of the above).

Sometimes as a journalist, the less information you have about yourself online, the better. So that's why this is my farewell blog. It's time to hide myself away - until I'm a national columnist. Then I'll have the right to be out there, flaunting my views about this, that and the other.

Thanks to everyone who's read my blog so far...I really appreciated your support in my days of unemployment and low self-esteem.

Fear not, though. I'll be back! x