Next steps?

Further to my musings about doing a Masters after the HSW salary survey reported on the salary benefits of having this qualication, I had coffee with a friend who had been job hunting for only 6 months (compared to the 12 months I’ve been looking around). She has already been accepted to start a masters (her second) in May. It was the final push I needed. I contacted three of the universities that do an IOSH approved Occupational Health and Safety MSc. Initial responses were disappointing. For one university the 2010 intake is already full; one email was responded to by an administrator who suggested I look at the website (duh!) and visit on an open day in two months time; the third has yet to respond.

Undaunted, I telephoned the course head at the second university. We had a long conversation about the course, clarifying facts that aren’t on the website and the outcome was that I’m going to one of the lectures on the current course to see if it suits me. Much more useful than spending a whole day at some general post-graduate open day where they’ll probably spend half the time talking about student loans. This way I’ll be able to meet at least one lecturer, and ask the other students what they think of the course. Wish I’d done the same for the NEBOSH certificate course… I’ll report back in a couple of weeks.

By the way, I saw an awesome job advertised this week. Climate Change Manager. Wouldn’t that be fantastic to be able to manage climate change? I think I’d stop it, or at least slow it down. Turned out it was only about measuring greenhouse gas emissions. Disappointing.