Monday

Leave my Glasgow home at 6.30am for the one-hour drive to my base in Edinburgh, which means I miss the heavy traffic and arrive fully awake and ready for the day ahead.

I spend all morning on final preparation for this week's meetings and catching up on e-mails. I have no PA which is becoming an issue as my right forefinger is worn to the bone!

I also catch up on the phone with the four branch managers. I know they especially look forward to my call! Home for 7.15pm, relieved that my two teenage girls are out. I look at the treadmill and decide the couch needs me more!

Tuesday

Up early (miss the girls again) and through once more to the capital for a meeting with an unofficial business mentor whom I exhaust with issues and challenges.

Through to our Livingston branch at lunchtime. Meet with our director there for a business update and a meeting with an events company whom I hope can organise our summer gathering of all 43 staff in a suitable location.

I fancy 'It's a knockout' during the day, followed by a formal prize giving at night with disco of course. I'd insist upon a 70s theme if the average age wasn't 27.

Wednesday

Drive the short distance from home to Bellshill and then a final interview with a consultant for our design/construction division in Glasgow.

Very impressed, particularly as she has no previous experience in recruitment. I leave feeling convinced that she will be a star, and try hard not to remind myself about having experienced this feeling once or twice before!

No baggage, no war stories, no “we used to do it this way”, what more can you ask? Home for 7pm and ask my better half if our children still live with us.

Thursday

Drive the 10 miles to our East Kilbride office near Glasgow, then to Edinburgh for a meeting with the finance director about the latest projections to year end (June).

Friday

Ah, Glasgow office today and a lie in, so greet my daughters in the hall for the first time this week. I then head off to meet with a director from our biggest spending client, who ends up paying for the coffees and low-fat muffins due to me spending too long this morning chatting to my girls and not transferring money and credit cards to my Friday suit.

Finish the day on a high with our second highest placement of the financial year to date, but resist the temptation to go for drinks after work as this is my 35th day without a cigarette, and a drink would indeed tempt fate.

Grumpy and home at 6pm on a Friday, ah well, hope the girls are in...