Welcome

Welcome to Capital Gains – the blog which will be tracking my journey from Games Maker wannabe, Games Maker test event and (hopefully) on to the Games themselves.

So, a little context. I have my initial selection event next week at the ExCeL Centre in London. I am being interviewed for the Press Operations team – admittedly my third choice of role, but one which ultimately fits my experience and skills well.

Oddly, I have also been asked to work at the Press Operations test event this Summer, where I will be interviewing athletes (BMX riders, to be exact) and uploading their quotes onto a press service computer system.

Not one to be presumptuous, but I am thinking I have a strong chance of making the 2012 team given that I have been asked to work at the test event before they’ve actually seen me in the flesh.

You can also follow my journey as I embark on trying to obtain Olympic tickets. Yep, I – like 1m others apparently – bombed out at the first stage of the process, so stay tuned for my experiences of the second, third, fourth (and God knows however many more) stages of the ticketing process.

Do feel free to comment, start debate etc. I would also be interested to hear your experiences of becoming a Games Maker.