Walkman

Perhaps I bit later than I originally intended this post to be (as always) but now that I've finished my PMI exam, I have found spare time cropping up here and there that I'd forgotten I had. Regardless of how important or not an exam is, I always have a sense of guilt if I think I should be revising and in fact I'm sat in front of the computer / TV or just generally procrastinating. The last couple of weeks, I've had things spring out of no-where to keep me occupied. Last week I was invited on a spontaneous day trip to Sheffield for a friends birthday celebrations (a trip that ended up costing me far more than I had imagined but was enjoyable nevertheless) a this week saw an organised work social to see the first Die Hard at the cinema as part of the Odeon in Manchester's season of re-showing old films.

Exam Time

It's something that has been coming for a few months now but alas, with less than a week to go before my PMI-RPC (that's Pensions Management Institute - Retirement Provision Certificate to the uninitiated) I have finally come to the end of the notes. Having handwritten now close to 60 pages (double sided) of notes and having typed up only 30% of those so that I can actually read them, I am still feeling fairly well prepared for it - much more so than most of my school or university exams. I suppose with it being a financial sort of thing, I've actually been studying that since I was in year 9 and having done a GCSE and A-Level in accounting and a further certificate in financial studies, I should have an advantage over someone who has come to this without such a background.