“I feel secure in the position while it lasts.”

“It’s short term funding and so I know that the funding for this position will expire in June 2012.”

“It’s the way I’ve worked for the last few years.”

 “The future is for me, is probably to do similar, really. I can’t see myself changing career very much although I have stepped back from management to advisor post. I would perhaps like to start a social enterprise myself.”

“Work life is fairly busy. I work full time and I work in my office in Truro but I work in the west of Cornwall where I live and it’s pretty full on, pretty busy.”

“A typical day? Busy, it’s always busy. Mostly I would be down in the west of Cornwall, probably deliver a session in the morning or sometimes in the afternoon. Normally one session a day and the rest of the time, the afternoon say, I would spend sending emails, contacting clients, maybe signing up new clients, doing one to one information, advice and guidance sessions and then completing a report. So, it’s got a good mix of administration, paperwork, computer work but mainly it’s face to face, either with one individual or with groups .”

“A good day is when you get a good group that are together and they really enjoy the session and I enjoy that It lifts you and you have a laugh and people enjoy what we’re delivering. And a bad day is probably when you set up a session and not many people turn up or nobody turns up because it’s a free programme For me a good day is when the programme is being used properly and it keeps me busy.”

“In the past I’ve trained as a trainer…

…so I already had some of the skills and qualifications required. And I also trained as an advisor. Since joining the company I’ve had quite a lot of training within the programme that we deliver because there’s a lot of personal development that we deliver that.”

“I’m looking at options for starting a course in September which would be level 5 for Mentoring and Coaching and that would be new for me. That goes on a step from the level 3 advice and guidance and the level 4 management that I’ve taken in the past and it would fit in well with what I’m doing now. we had a training session this week on diversity I’m doing child poverty training next week.”

“I would like more short training, certainly, short bursts of training.”

Pam Sekula