And it's a gushing, tumbling cavalcade of pimps!

[reddragdiva]

The recruiters are swarming - I've been woken by pimp calls every day this week, with more pimp calls through the morning and afternoon. Either (a) my efforts have hit some sort of critical mass (at circa twenty applications a week, I should bloody hope so), (b) the market is finally improving or (c) it's coincidence ...

In any case, I've had enough calls from the darlings and my CV actually put forward to enough places by them to expect a discernible result or two.

So I have an interview in Oxford on Monday afternoon. (Have already told sushidog and diffrentcolours to put on their thinking pants and come up with suitable entertainments for the interview-frazzled.) The job looks like complete shit - £18k for PFY work, with the carrot being SCSA and *ahem* McSE training - but it most certainly beats the £2.5k the dole offers.

Ah, Oxford ... London cost of living with small town entertainments, and a job offering academic pay with private enterprise perks. Best of all possible worlds.

In juicier offers, there is a ClearCase admin role with an investment bank I went for, goodness, about four or five months ago. They were desperate to fill the job at the time - the one and only consultant performing the task had turned down a work permit, because he wanted to go home to the US. Of course, the job is still open. So they called me to tart up the CV for internal resubmission. And through it has gone. Hey, fine by me.

Oh, and I had the following conversation on Friday afternoon (and am waiting on the call with the interview time):

"Oh, hello ---. What's up?"
"You've got an interview."
"Oh, good. When?"
"No idea, but I'm one of your interviewers. Remember, we've never met, okay."
"No worries. Who are you again?"

Here's to nepotism - source of all the good jobs.

Comments

future plans

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

You must get a good job so that you can afford to go to Whitby in November, because caspervonb, the_axel and I are finally going.

And if I go all the way to England and don't get to meet you in person I will be Very Annoyed.

Re: future plans

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Are you lot going anywhere in the UK other than Whitby? Because I wasn't planning to freeze my butt off on the North Sea coast in November.

Jodi (who spectacularly failed to meet anyone at Convergence due to being less than fully mobile)

Re: future plans

[reddragdiva]

Holy Shit!

Well, I did April on £20 for the whole weekend and couch surfing ... so I know it's doable, if a little nerve-wracking. (Special cheers to theevilchemist and the Chicago crew for their hospitality.)

This time, though, we got it all planned. ladylilith is over from Australia. The cottage is booked. It's all a happener.

And if I'm swimming in a sea of bucks by then, so much the better for setting London aflame later!

Re: future plans

[redcountess]

Yes, and Jodi, you have to come...besides, David said Whitby was unseasonably warm last November (not that I'm counting on that).

Siobhan, meeting you will make up for missing out on C8 *grin*

Looks like I'll have to go with Plan B

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Which was, go to Whitby. Get accommodation in one of the outlying villages (I have a car and don't drink). Spend lots of time in the pub, the bazaar, wandering about Whitby. Attend some variation of net.goth meal and maybe one of the Sunday night events. Do not set foot in the Spa.

I always thought it was too crowded and the facilities were poor, but after how well things ran at the Spectrum in June, I *will not* queue for half an hour for the bar, or for the toilet. I just won't.

We were going to do this next April so we could do some touristy stuff on the north yorks moors. Maybe we'll bring it forward.

Jodi

Re: Looks like I'll have to go with Plan B

[reddragdiva]

Well, the universe didn't explode when Sexbat and I finally met ... I expect it'll survive you and I meeting.

I picture yourself, hirez and I sitting in the pub, pontificating on the youth of today ...

Re: Looks like I'll have to go with Plan B

[redcountess]

Excellent! Our cottage is booked from Thursday 31st of October and we check out on the following Tuesday. I plan to do a lot of touristy stuff around Whitby itself, like see the replica of HMS Bark Endeavour and go on a ghostwalk, as well as spend a lot of time in the Elsinore.

Re: future plans

[dagwast.livejournal.com]

Epic.
I'll be there as well, with a crew of sexy norwegian deth chix. So yea, I'll see everybody there.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

The job looks like complete shit - £18k for PFY work, with the carrot being SCSA and *ahem* McSE training - but it most certainly beats the £2.5k the dole offers.

At least you get the £2.5k...I can't collect that or job seekers allowance.
:(

[reddragdiva]

OTOH, you do have an employed partner. And a house to live in ...

[girfan.livejournal.com]

True, but he doesn't have the spare cash to pay my debts...at all.

This causes me much anxiety daily, and I have ruined my credit totally by now and will more than likely be screwed for a few years due to this. If I had that 2.5k, I could have made payments and not had this extra stress in my life.

[allezbleu.livejournal.com]

welcome to the borg. you *will* be assimilated!

*licks*

xx

[reddragdiva]

"I am Dyslexia of Br0g. Prepare your arse to be laminated."