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Oct. 18th, 2012 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolI have mostly been applying for jobs recently, if you exclude Sunday. Oh dear. Sunday. I ended up inviting myself to my parent's house for a roast dinner, and then picked up Matt so we could have 'one beer, two AT MOST' at the Oktoberfest thing that the beer shop up the road were doing. Things I did not take into account: I have no idea or indeed tolerance on how beer works. Had a genuinely lovely German beer, had second one, was half way through third when was informed it was 6.3%.
The rest of the night is fuzzy, but we all ended up back at mine and Richie's house, drinking wine and eating Chinese. Downton Abbey was significantly more odd than normal. I say with some pride I still went to work the next day.
The week has been a quiet one, other than that, just knuckling down and getting on with job applications. Mostly in work, because, well, it fills the time. It's depressing, though, how little you get in the way of response. I find rejections quite cheering mostly because it means at least someone read it! Today I finally got some results though, NOT ONE A REJECTION. The first one was a recruitment agency which it turned out had been fibbing on their adverts (but still, not an outright rejection!), the second was a P.A. job that wantd to check when I was moving, and finished by telling me I had a great CV and she hoped she'd be phoning me back, so fingers crossed there. I also got an e-mail to book in for a telephone interview for one of the jobs that isn't a 'I could do this and I would mostly enjoy it' but instead a 'I really really want this' which is jolly exciting indeed.
So that's a good feeling, even if none of it leads to anything. This weekend I am off to London (BY CAR EGADS) to view flats. We more or less have one set up, but need to see it first obviously, but it would be good if it worked out (reasonably cost effective, private let so no agency fees and crucially HAS A LOFT so no need for a second room) but if not we're lining up some other stuff to look at. Then I can bung a London address on my applications which hopefully might push me through some more doors.
So, progress.
The rest of the night is fuzzy, but we all ended up back at mine and Richie's house, drinking wine and eating Chinese. Downton Abbey was significantly more odd than normal. I say with some pride I still went to work the next day.
The week has been a quiet one, other than that, just knuckling down and getting on with job applications. Mostly in work, because, well, it fills the time. It's depressing, though, how little you get in the way of response. I find rejections quite cheering mostly because it means at least someone read it! Today I finally got some results though, NOT ONE A REJECTION. The first one was a recruitment agency which it turned out had been fibbing on their adverts (but still, not an outright rejection!), the second was a P.A. job that wantd to check when I was moving, and finished by telling me I had a great CV and she hoped she'd be phoning me back, so fingers crossed there. I also got an e-mail to book in for a telephone interview for one of the jobs that isn't a 'I could do this and I would mostly enjoy it' but instead a 'I really really want this' which is jolly exciting indeed.
So that's a good feeling, even if none of it leads to anything. This weekend I am off to London (BY CAR EGADS) to view flats. We more or less have one set up, but need to see it first obviously, but it would be good if it worked out (reasonably cost effective, private let so no agency fees and crucially HAS A LOFT so no need for a second room) but if not we're lining up some other stuff to look at. Then I can bung a London address on my applications which hopefully might push me through some more doors.
So, progress.
