Good morning! March 28, 2011

It is 4.57am and I have been awake for about an hour already. My friend H came to visit me this weekend and she’s catching an early flight to be able to go straight to work. A normal day I would have gone back to bed to sleep for another 3 hours, but I need to leave in about 90 minutes to go and see a client. I’m slightly nervous. I’m about to do my first client presentation face-to-face.

I did my absolute first one a week ago on the same topic as I’m about to present today. But that was just over the phone with the woman who’s responsible for the project on the client-side. Today the whole research-team and marketing and possibly even finance will be in the room to listen to what great recommendations I have to say. Sometimes it feel rather daunting that our clients base multi-million strategic decisions on the recommendations we write. And although my manager and my manager’s manager checks the recommendations before we make them, it is still up to me to ensure that the data is accurate and that the information that leads us up to making those recommendations are correct. Scary! But kind of cool too..

On a different, non-work related note, I’M GOING TO DUBAI!!! I’m so excited! In about a month’s time, or actually just 3.5 weeks I’ll be jetting off on holiday for 11 days. I just can’t wait! I’ll be meeting up with a friend who lives there and a colleague of mine is going back to see her mom as well, so I’ll have some people to see which will be very cool indeed!

I really should get into the shower now so I have some time to practice my presentation before I leave, but just thought that an early morning update could be something I haven’t done before

Cheerios people!

xx