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Well it's D Day -1, well nearly. Thought I would have more time to prepare myself for the inevitable, but old father time certainly has had years of practice to sneak up on you. Work so busy at end of Q1 of a rather busy but eventful year here at Weidmuller. Success all round so far after one of the worst years for the UK manufacturing industry. Preparing myself for the hectic schedules by spending time with family and friends and especially my kids who may miss out a bit shortly as I knuckle under to do some work!!

My aim is to post a few lines each day as a permanent record of my learning experience so late in life - effectively 21 years since i did some real study (excluding the non assigned MBA module I did two years ago, but Marketing is my passion so should (sorry will) be fun, exillerating! and a pleasure to learn new things.

On the up may get a pay rise if the dissertation works out to the benefit of all!

Here's to another day.

Stuart

What a week! 1 birthday, 2 champions league semi-finals, 3 study nights missed. And yet, and yet.....good progress. No research, a little re-reading, loads spent hitting the keyboard (sometimes literally!). Result? 2,500 words! Not bad for end of 3rd week. Next week will be spent concluding, completing references and checking that it all hangs together.

Almost there.....

It's the end of week two and time to check the stats.

Oh dear, study time down - barely made 10 hours this week. I blame Champions League football, bank holiday weekends and work. Anything but me! Next week probably much the same as my birthday on Tuesday then away on business Wednesday and Thursday. Might sneak in a few hours but am bracing myself for a low count. Will aim for a real push on Friday and Saturday.

Research mostly done but had to give up on certain leads as am not paying $30 just to view some same-old, same-old article on CSR. Yes, Emerald limitations unchanged. However its amazing how much you can find (for free) via Google.

Reading also going well and the words flowing freely on the laptop - saved to hard drive and two memory sticks just to be ultra-safe.

And that all-important word count: 1,780. Woop woop! Half way there and then some.

Logging off.

Ok - so the dissrtation proposal is in - the last assignment is in - and we await the marks accordingly.So did we do ok - or is it back to the drawing board ? But we cant wait to find out cos the clock is ticking and time is available now so .....methodology literature - where is it ? surveymonkey - how does it work ? permissions - is this going to work ?

Oh yeah and there is always at least one student who decides to move house which if everything goes according to plan - will be me this year. When will be the best time ? Like I can control it !

OK - grindstone - pen - web - lets go.

Hurra - diss proposal - draft - I stress is in - now I just need permission to do it , set up the chatrooms, draft the survey, etc etc.

But plan is in - so on schedule.