La vita è bella... :)

Though I am both excited and nervous beyond my wits, it's the truth and I like it. 

I'm currently preparing a job app for a position on campus that I would really love and be really lucky to get at this stage. It's been a while since I had to endure the whole job application process and since this is a government/uni position, the process is even more strenuous. I've been fortunate enough to get every tip under the sun from a lot of the people I already work with, my boss has ensured me a fab reference and a couple of people have offered to go over my stuff for me as well so that was really kind of them. Of course, I still have to finalise my other referee (who will be getting a semi-irate call tomorrow... I kid) and finish addressing the criteria (they expect sub headings and admittedly, it does make things easier - I'm just editing now), but the closing date is next Friday so I have a little time.

I am certainly prepped for the possibility I won't get it, but I'm just excited to be applying :D let things go as they go...

Oh yes, and as of today - my HECS debt is history! I made the final payment today and now, I've paid off my entire tertiary education and I'm not destitute, huzzah! *dances* 

And to just pop that cherry on top there, it's payday tomorrow :)

Aaah, the things that excite you when you get older... and after all those lovely simple pleasures everyone's been noting...;) Will get mine out soon, promise.

:D

Back in May, I applied for a freelance editing position and I was asked to send in a writing sample, which I promptly did. I never heard from them again so was left thinking, 'Ok... they didn't like it. That sucks. Oh well.' :P 

I just got an email from them, asking me to schedule a testing (they're in the US so it would have to be an online test)!!!

Yay!

That's all :)

PS. Apologies, to anyone concerned, for my (honest, yet tactless) slights against Latham and Kerry in my last post.

Working stiff...

Meanwhile, am semi getting used to working at Pitcher. The job, I'm getting used to, but the people? And the atmosphere? Not so great. Not a welcoming or comfortable place at all. I've met one other person who agrees with me... and the guy who got the job before, Michael, has resigned and his last day was yesterday. He just finished high school last year and has done a bar course and he resigned because now, the lucky bastard is tending bar for Cirque Du Soleil while they're here in Sydney (which will be for the next three months!). He and Christine are the only two people around whom I feel really comfortable. My supervisor, Vicki, is pretty cool too. 

Not to say I've not spoken to a couple of nice people since I started there... but on the whole, the place is still really stiff. 

Thankful for the fact that I'm getting used to the job though :) And I guess I should give the people a little time before I keep calling em stiff and unfriendly :P

For now though, huzzah for weekends! :D

"My whole life flashed before my eyes!... It was really boring."

Man, that movie cracked me up big time :D

Meanwhile, Jo called me back and offered me a temp job for now and I'll be starting on Monday and working for a month. It's to cover for the Documents Coordinator, Lizzy, while she's on holiday. I'm currently sick with the very sudden onset of a cold, but hopefully it clears up a bit over the weekend. Goodbye late nights gabbin with Gill and Manda! Hello 6am starts! ;)

In the meantime, I'm still looking around for P/T work for when the month is over although Jo indicated that there was the possibility of another opening. We'll see how it goes.

As the class that I was told was supposed to happen last week, was in fact this Saturday, I have to prepare for that. I also have a friend's 22nd over at Pancakes on the Rocks on Sunday, but I may call to say I can't make it if I'm not feeling any better... I might even have to cancel on Saturday :( I don't want to get any of my kiddies sick!

Mel is leaving for the Phils on Saturday... going for a week. I'm hoping and praying she has a safe trip.

Ah well... ;)

I had the longest, most convoluted entry written up. I'm now going to put up the pain free version.

Jo, Christina and Vicki deemed me overqualified for the position which, ultimately, was kitchen/boardroom maintenance/clerical support (the title changed from Admin Assistant to Kitchen Assistant/Admin Assistant) and chose someone just fresh out of school and who had just completed a bar course and thus they thought would be more suited to the job long term. In other words, they were afraid I'd bore quickly considering my degree and interests. Jo liked me though so if a position on her HR team opens up, she'll call me. I'm also allowed to email her about what type of position I would possibly like within the company and she'll see what she can do.

Mel was not surprised considering she continued to maintain that she didn't like the idea of me just doing the random stuff they didn't want to have to for themselves (which they had conveniently formed into a job) and my brother even said that he reckoned they were probably wondering why I applied to begin with. 

They're both sweet.

I no longer: 

- have to consider being out from 7am to 7pm, Monday to Friday
- have to buy work clothes
- have to memorise the tasks
- have to rearrange my schedule (for hospital or med)
- have to worry about whether or not this job was right for me

I now have:

- corporate interview experience (had never done one before)
- a connection within HR
- time to refocus on writing, Journo and Counselling and looking for a better suited job (poss. P/T)
- availability lest I need to redo the stats exam
- time to REST after the most hellish semester (from sem to exams to interview, non-stop worry)

I'm honestly relieved that I didn't get the job. I didn't want it forever and I was actually beginning to despise it in the time approaching the second interview. To have a steady job and paycheck woud have been great and all, but at least now I know it wasn't for me and now, I can stop using up time thinking about it and all the potential havoc it would wreak on my life. 

Now if only I could just keep things so simple all the time... I'd save a lot of time and energy.