Worrying whether to say ‘hello’, ‘Hi’, or ‘hey’ and how the tone will be experienced. Considering ‘Dear’ and rejecting it.

Writing ‘thanks a lot’ and worrying that sounds even more sarcastic.

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:

Weekend job at a battery hen farm
Medical Physics tech, quit after 1 week
Labourer, (20p pay rise for getting my driving licence)
5p photocopier installer
Chemical etcher

just scratching the surface of the shit jobs

I wonder if there’s some knowledge assumed in this post? I hope the services being talked about are the ones that cut across the 30+ arms length bodies that Defra works alongside. I tend to liken Defra and the ALBs to a federated organisation, with all the challenges that that brings.