UNDER normal circumstances, after five years in a job Jez Moxey is getting itchy feet.
The eyes are wandering and he's looking for pastures new, for a new testing challenge to get his teeth into.
So as the Wolves chief executive celebrated five years in the job last Wednesday, those walking past his Molineux office might have considered a sneaky look in to see if the boxes were being filled, suitcases being packed.
Well this time around, things are different.
Unlike previous footballing employment at Rangers, Partick Thistle and Stoke, Moxey can see his service with Wolves stretching - provided no one tells him otherwise - to within touching distance of a decade.
And that's because despite all the off-field improvements Moxey believes have taken place during his five year tenure, on the field, where it really matters,
Wolves remain in the cheap seats.
There was a taste of the Premiership, but only a painfully fleeting one, and until Wolves have become an established top-flight outfit Moxey will remain convinced his job is far from done.
"Although people will criticise us for getting relegated and then not getting promoted straight back, I don't think anybody could say that there hasn't been wholesale change and a massive improvement from June 2000 to June 2005," argues Moxey.
"During that time the club has become more efficient and we've also seen some of the best football at Molineux for decades, as well as the arrival of some top drawer players.
"We're not where we want to be, and as we've seen over recent years the teams who get promoted to the Premiership often then get relegated.
"But some get back up, and then stay up, such as Charlton, Bolton and now West Brom.
"That is what we have to aim for, to get back up and stay there, and until that happens I don't believe my job is done.
"If you look at my track record at football clubs, I always stay a reasonably long time, moving after maybe five or six years.
"To me that is long enough to have done a job, and by definition you must have done something right or people would have got rid of you.
"But in talking about that five or six years, Wolves will be the exception and I'm happy to state that.
"There have been opportunities to move on, and I've been linked with one or two jobs, but I remain totally committed to this football club.
"The way I see things panning out - and unless there's a change of ownership when guys like me are in a precarious position - I could probably be here for another four or five years by which time our target might have been established and it would be time to move on.
"There is a lot that is better than five years ago, that's not down to me that's down to a lot of people, but at the moment we are in the Championship and so the job is not done."
It goes without saying that Moxey's five years in Molineux's corridors of power have not been without incident.
The tone was set by supporters' bitterness at the departure of previous managing director and club legend John Richards, which probably manifested itself most tangibly in the demonstration just four months into his reign when Moxey and Sir Jack Hayward were verbally abused and spat at following a defeat against Crystal Palace.
From there the rivers of angst flowed deep, and Moxey has at times born the brunt of frustrations for not sacking Colin Lee, for sacking Colin Lee, for rising ticket prices, for missing out on players, for not handing out contracts, for not sacking Dave Jones, for sacking Dave Jones etc etc.
And even, and it probably wasn't tongue in cheek, for Molineux's supply of pies running out at half time!
For a man grounded first in playing basketball - to England Under-21 level no less - and then becoming the youngest franchise owner of a basketball club in the sport, the vitriol is pretty much water off a duck's back.
"I recognise that my job is a thankless task and as long as the people who count know what is happening, then ultimately I accept that there has to be a fall guy for supporters to vent their frustration at," he explains.
"And it would be completely unacceptable in my view to criticise the Hayward family in any shape or form - they are beyond reproach given what they have done for this club.
"No one likes it when people-are singing and chantingand demonstrating at you, but what affects me more is the the stress and worry of us being successful.
"It's full-on for me, always has been, and that's since I started playing basketball.
"In truth I was built the wrong shape for basketball, so what I had to do was work twice as hard as anyone else to stay level.
"That's the sort of attitude I transferred into business, it's almost a fear of failure that drives me and I don't think many of the fans can see that or understand how passionate I am.
"I have made mistakes, I will put my hand up and say that, and there are also so many things that happen that you just can't control.
"But I just hope people can see we are as open and as honest as we can be, within the remit of certain things having to remain confidential, and we say what we mean and mean what we say.
"Whilst we say things that sometimes people don't like hopefully at least they know where we stand."
Despite all the brickbats tossed in his direction over the last five years Moxey --who admits he gets his work-life balance hopelessly wrong to an unhealthy level - is heading into the next stage of his Wolves career in positive mood.
Out of the disappointment of last season, and the sacking of Jones, came the seeds of a new and improved Wolves courtesy of the snaring of Glenn Hoddle, a union that was given more of a permanent semblance with a one-year rolling contract.
Moxey continues to relish in the "unique" challenge of working for the evercolourful Hayward family, and with Hoddle in charge of team affairs, is confident of a promising season ahead.
"Glenn has more than stabilised our position since coming in, he has massively improved it," he says.
And if Hoddle and co can deliver that much-craved for success, in the form of promotion to the Premiership, Moxey might also nudge himself that little bit further towards improved job satisfaction.
Until then, he sees much more work to be done to build on the last five years.
