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In what is probably the most corporately cheesy but reasonably cute gesture known to man, my manager has planted me a tree. I now have a certificate for the planting of a brand new elm tree in the Isle of Wight national park which will represent his commitment to my growth and professional development within Vestas. I will have to go visit it once it has started to sprout

I have now got a nice piece of glass fibre on my desk. Things are looking up

I have just finished my third day and all is good. I still don’t really know what I will be up to in terms of project but there is so much going on that there will be no time for boring menial tasks. Vestas seem to really focus on looking after new starters and there is a very elaborate five week training scheme that I am currently working through. It consists of a lot of very well designed flash animation based training (big budget clearly), followed by initial short term projects (which start tomorrow), hands on composite laminating course in Denmark (1 week long I think), visits to production abroad somewhere followed by ansys and ProE training. After all that I finally get to find out what my real long term project will be!

They really care about their employees too. There is fantastic free local organic food for lunch, free tickets for the ferry and water taxi, a terrible HTC phone for business and personal use at home or abroad, table football, free sailing lessons on Tuesdays, football on Wednesdays, a great mentoring scheme, laptop, credit card and a hefty relocation bonus. Anyone else want a job btw? They desperately want people that know what a wind turbine is

Everyone is really friendly and most people seem pretty new to the company. I will be working long and hard and it is going to be very challenging but very rewarding!

Ok so I still don’t have internet, but I am being harassed to such a degree that I have decided to upload these photos from work. The flat is pretty small but quite cheap, is close to the ferry and has both free gym (which I need to start frequenting) and a locked cycle store. If anyone wants to visit they will have to sleep in the kitchen though!