Wow, three years since my last blog. I have either been very busy or very lazy! Probably a combination of both.
What has happened in that time? Well I have two new children (what am I doing!), have relocated back to the Scottish city where it all started and find myself no further on with anything than I was three years ago.
Poor effort really.
Am I happier? Yes and no it must be said.
My ex-wife is taking my eldest son (now 6) to Australia in a months time and that is just going to rip my heart out. What I would give to have the chance of employment over there but it's not that easy unfortunately.
I sometimes find it difficult to understand the rules for emigration. If I were a plumber or Painter and decorator or a mechanic I could get in to the country without issue. Unfortunately I am only a Technical Manager for an international oil tool manufacturing company and have also been working for some of the largest oilfield services companies in the world but that is deemed insufficient.
And to think that it was only the thickest of guys at school that became joiners and the like yet here they stand with such an advantage when it comes to worldwide relocation.
Fair, maybe not...reality...unfortunately so.
So I am forced to wave off my son who I will miss very much and whom I will probably lose forever now given the expense and logistics involved in visiting somewhere like Australia.
Tears flow easily when I consider our lost life together and it has not even happened yet. My much loved first born who I will miss growing up only for the sake of not being stupid enough at school to enter into a trade profession.
What has happened in that time? Well I have two new children (what am I doing!), have relocated back to the Scottish city where it all started and find myself no further on with anything than I was three years ago.
Poor effort really.
Am I happier? Yes and no it must be said.
My ex-wife is taking my eldest son (now 6) to Australia in a months time and that is just going to rip my heart out. What I would give to have the chance of employment over there but it's not that easy unfortunately.
I sometimes find it difficult to understand the rules for emigration. If I were a plumber or Painter and decorator or a mechanic I could get in to the country without issue. Unfortunately I am only a Technical Manager for an international oil tool manufacturing company and have also been working for some of the largest oilfield services companies in the world but that is deemed insufficient.
And to think that it was only the thickest of guys at school that became joiners and the like yet here they stand with such an advantage when it comes to worldwide relocation.
Fair, maybe not...reality...unfortunately so.
So I am forced to wave off my son who I will miss very much and whom I will probably lose forever now given the expense and logistics involved in visiting somewhere like Australia.
Tears flow easily when I consider our lost life together and it has not even happened yet. My much loved first born who I will miss growing up only for the sake of not being stupid enough at school to enter into a trade profession.
