This morning I passed Microsoft Architect exam AZ-303. Now this significant for me. One, good high level qualification which will help hugely job wise. Two, it has raised confidence in my capabilities. This is a difficult exam. Three, this is the start of my new career adventure, failing it would have knocked me back psychologically.

Knowing that I have put in many hours over the last four days, and not sleeping well on it, I would have a found it really tough to pick myself up. This is a massive tonic.

The last few weeks have been incredibly stressful, redundancy and Alice putting restrictions on how and when I see Mabel. To have that in the background and have to focus on studying hard has been challenging. As is said “That which does not kill you makes you stronger”.