Relief

Finally, after hours of nervous tension, the news came in that I passed my exam. It was odd - normally, people skip out of work early in order to be at home (or, more importantly, not at work) when the news comes. This time around, I was pressured into being "hardcore" and staying to hear the news with my colleagues.

Normally, the result comes in the form of a SMS text message sent directly to one's phone. It also comes by email, and later by mail. On this occasion, for some reason the text didn't come through until 40 minutes late, so I actually heard the news from people in the next room who had got the (publicly available) pass list up on the internet when it was published! The sense of relief was awesome though.

So now I'm professionally part-qualified (I get a certificate and everything!) and have to write three more exams only to become fully Chartered. Plus I can now concentrate on getting to where I want to go jobwise. So it's all good!