Rachel Killington is enjoying the combination of part-time duties for the radio station with a freelance web job - at least for a few more weeks. Days of sunshine ‘Kara-Louise is currently eating kebabs made from gammon and fondant fancies, served on a bed of prawn cocktail and chilli sauce.’
Summer has finally arrived, and with it, the usual amount of fun, frolics and downright ridiculous stupidity that is Big Brother. I, like many others, always vow that ‘I won’t get into it this year’, but inevitably I always seem to get sucked in to what has become an annual catwalk of desperate nobodies, all striving to make their mark on a society that is becoming increasingly more fussy about their everyday televisual consumption. Big Brother is as synonymous with summer as Santa and Christmas, and for me, summer for the last three years has meant carnivals, fetes, fireworks and fundays. This year is no different, and I still enjoy being in the radio station's Thunder Team as much as I ever did. True, the sun has been fairly reluctant to shine this year, but the crowds have been as large as always, and the smiles on the children’s faces as broad as they ever were, and that’s the important thing. It really reminds me of how lucky I am, and how much of a difference I can make to people simply by doing my job. I do like MondaysAt work things are good right now. I’m well aware of the fact that I theoretically only have three more weeks left doing my freelancing. I’m not going to attempt to hide the fact that I’d be truly devastated to not be doing the job. I’ve always wanted a job where I don’t mind staying an extra hour or so, where I get on with all my colleagues, and really enjoy the work, and I can honestly say that I’ve got that now. When I worked in the supermarket, I used to dread Sunday nights almost as much as I did when I was a child and didn’t want to go back to school, because I really didn’t enjoy my job, and never wanted to go in on a Monday morning. Now Mondays are just another day. I’m not saying that I love going back to work after the weekends, as I’m like any other person - I relish time off with my friends and loved ones, but I honestly don’t mind going back on a Monday morning, however early that may be. I’m gradually getting to know everyone on the online team around the country. I regularly talk to the other editors, discussing problems and sharing workloads, and I liaise between different stations and their teams. I love being able to say 'that’s no problem, I can do that', and it makes me exceptionally proud when other editors (most of whom have been doing the job longer than me) call me to ask my advice. Day by dayAlthough I know my work may soon come to an end, I’m trying not to focus upon that. There is always the possibility that more work will come along, and I also have my work on the Thunder Team. I know that the knowledge and experience I have been fortunate enough to gain during the last few months will be invaluable in later life, and even though there may not be a permanent position available at the moment, that’s not to say that it won’t happen sometime in the future. If and when that happens, I’ll be ready to give it my very best shot, and I know I’ll be better equipped to do that than I would have been a few months back. So for me, I’m not looking too far ahead. I’m taking every day as it comes, and at the moment things are good. Nobody can predict what will happen in the future, but I’m determined to work as hard as I can, for whatever time I may have left in my online position, because that’s really the only thing I can do. And I’ve always been a great believer in the theory that if you try your best, whatever happens will be for the best. Wish me luck! See Rachel's previous job logs: | 
