According to much research which has been conducted over the last few months by moi the first step for your blog is to introduce yourself and always ensure your blog has an informal tone without being too informal. Now I should preface by saying under normal circumstances I find it difficult to draw the line between informal and too informal so this should be fun!!

So the intro bit - I am the Website Development Manager (and yes I am aware it sounds makey uppey!) for RecruitIreland.com, we are a jobsite basically where advertisers, aka employers and recruitment agencies post jobs and candidates log on and find jobs - simple enough eh, certainly not rocket science!

My role in the company - *yawn* - I'm bored by this already, basically to cut a long story short, I worked in Business Development and Sales for the last 8ish years, still do some Account Management incidentally for those clients who are reading this and thinking, "but she rang me last week looking for more money and trying to sell me something else" , but now I am also responsible for the "techy stuff" - quite a challenge for someone who is not really that technical skills wise, doesn't have technical training (oracle wha?) and really never thought I would work in this area!

This month the Leaving Cert Results came out and it got me thinking about when I did mine all those years ago - isn't it funny how when you are in school you have these ideas about what you want to do and where you want your career and job to take you and then when you actually do the Leaving, leave school, go to college (if you do) or start work invariably we end up doing something completely different.

I remember I wanted to do Linguistics (or something like that), so so badly, I was 5 points out so i did Business Studies instead, purely because my 4 friends (not that I only had 4 or anything) were doing it - and I ended up here in a half sales and half technical role where I really never thought I would be, with barely a word of German or French and not to mention Irish...

So what did you want to be when you grew up, sit back and think about it for a minute, then let us know in the comments below.

Vicki