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Triplets
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09:30 / 19.03.07

I start training in a very new and different kind of job today. Wish me luck!

Smith & Papers
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09:34 / 19.03.07

Go out there and kill 'em, tiger!

10:58 / 19.03.07

What is it, Triplets?

Triplets
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19:44 / 19.03.07

Waiting at a newly opening, up-market restaurant & bar in Liverpool city centre with bar training to come a few months down the line. I'll be there for opening night (plasterers, electricians and plumbers cracks abound this morning). Exciting stuff.

00:13 / 20.03.07

Bonne chance M. Triplets!

I could've requested luck for the first day of my new job today.

I could've, only
a) I now work in an open plan office where people can see when I'm pissing around on the interweb instead of...
b)...working, which it appears is something I might have to start doing instead of pissing around on the interweb.

So now I have to read wills instead of Barbelith. Think on that.

However, I took your luck as read (in my miiind), and it did me the power of good.

14:16 / 28.03.07

Not an interview, but still a luckwish:

I failed my third year of university from an ugly mix of apathy and laziness. I had fun doing the stuff that wasn't uni work, but i still regret not completing my degree when i'm quite capable of doing so. Also, guilt from money parents wasted etc etc.

So a year later, after having worked a little and having grown up a bit, i have just sent an email to the university asking if i can go back to retake the third year. It's quite exciting, but also quite nervy.

Wish me luck!

14:49 / 28.03.07

Luck wished.

Just don't piss any more of your parents' money up the wall, you lovely chap you. It is super naughty.

15:09 / 28.03.07

Nah. This time, self funded :-)

Smith & Papers
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20:53 / 26.04.07

Interview for a permanent position at the central branch of the library branch I work for in just over two hours. The white-hot panic has just started, I need to get into my action suit and focus on the game.

Thank god I'm going for lunch with a friend before the interview. Sushi will calm my exhausted nerves.

Decadent Daytripper in Love

21:06 / 26.04.07

Fingers and toes crossed for you.

Smith & Papers
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21:20 / 26.04.07

Thanks, Des. I'm trying to overcome the involuntary anxiety.

21:27 / 26.04.07

I have a job interview on Monday - the first one that I have had in years (about 7 I think). I'm very, very nervous as this is very much a career change, kind of daunting.

21:27 / 26.04.07

Knock 'em flying, dude!

21:28 / 26.04.07

You two share that balloon now.

SHARE!

21:37 / 26.04.07

What kind of career change, Benny?

Oh, and LUCK!

Decadent Daytripper in Love

21:40 / 26.04.07

Now when everyone gets their ginchy excellent swell jobs and/or marvelous new lives and their spead-the-luck powers are at their masterful heights, you're all going to channel those towards my manuscript that being looked at by very good people and make it read better than it does, right?

And Benny, what's the new lifechanger? If you don't mind the prying.

21:53 / 26.04.07

Going from film to the wonderful world of personnel and development (human resource education - hopefully with some employment law and nuerolinguistics thrown in). It's a real departure, but I'm quite excited by the idea, and the company are tremendously supportive, with great perks.

If I get the job, one real highlight will be a regular income and time table - something I have been seriously lacking of late!

Thanks all - I'm trying to write an application form at the moment (which is weird as I've already got an interview, but I got the interview from a CV drop, so guess it's a formality) and not watch Memoires of an Invisible Man...

22:45 / 26.04.07

Good luck!

Smith & Papers
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05:10 / 27.04.07

Wow. My interview was six hours ago and they just phoned me and offered me the job.

RAWK!

06:22 / 27.04.07

Most excellent! Congrats.

08:35 / 27.04.07

6 hours! Well done papers!

Smith & Papers
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08:44 / 27.04.07

Thanks! I'm pretty excited. Now, I'm sending out my good vibrations out to you and Des to get what you need/want...

09:57 / 27.04.07

Well done Papers

Notes from Boris-town

23:57 / 07.05.07

Interview tomorrow morning at 1130 for a research assistant post. Neat project - interviewing people who've heard the voice of GOD! Very cool place/people, decent money etc. Wish luck!

However I find myself in a bit of a quandary. Short version: My present job contract expires in a month and a bit. There is a very good chance that my boss ++ will get a mega-grant for a 4 year project/RA post which will involve travels to Turkey, Italy and NY. It is also very high profile in terms of partner institutions, non-academic impact etc. However, they won't know about funding for until the week after the coming. And then, I've nothing but my boss's word that she'll try and get me that job (that'll be up to at least 2 other persons, they might someone better etc).

So, my problem is: If I get offered the job I'm interviewing for tomorrow (nr 1), is it morally defensible to accept the appointment, but still hold out for the other possible job (nr 2), and if offered that, tell the peeps with nr 1 SOOO SORRY? (Assuming that they'd want me to start nr 1 asap after my present job is over, and that I'd get offered nr 2 before the hypothetical start of nr 1.) I don't think I can ask for enough time to mull over a possible offer for nr 1 for long enough to have the situation re nr 2 sorted. I'd love to get nr 2, as it's a long-term contract and has loads of perks. But then again, more than anything, I need a, any, job. I need to know what I'll do post mid-June after my current contract expires.

So, best case scenario: I get offered nr 1, get some time to think it over, and in that period of time get offered nr 2, accepting the latter. No moral agony.

Ok scenario: Nr 1 offered, accepted after "mulling over" period, get offered nr 2, tell nr 1 to get st(&%#. Moral agony.

Still ok scenario: Nr 1 offered, accepted, nothing on nr 2. Have job! No agony!

Worst case scenario: Don't get offered any job, is spotted sweeping the streets outside my office building. Broke, without prospects, depressed. Posts incessant bleak ramblings to Brubalith, eventually get kicked off the board for tinfoilhat-ness and general unpleasantness.

So, my question is: Is it ok for my to accept a job, knowing I might later (but not after actually starting it) relinquish it?

CAKE/EAT/KEEP!

Decadent Daytripper in Love

00:04 / 08.05.07

I would think unless it's a tight contract you can't back out of, just be up-front that you're 'considering options' and don't detail what the other offers or hypothetical-offers are. If they want you, they may even pump up the offer.

Notes from Boris-town

00:17 / 08.05.07

Thanks, DD. That was my first thought as well. But posing this question to friends and colleagues what I often got was "keep shut about other options and why you want some time to think about it. if they learn you're considering other options they might well give it to the person next in order of preference"... However, I feel I gotta give some reason, however vague, for asking for a time-out.. That said, it would be sweet if they upped the offer... On second thought, we are talking academia here. It's not like they've got bottomless coffers with which they can lure me into their laps. In reality there's a hard limit to what they can offer me salary-wise, and that isn't that much more than what I've already earning.

10:00 / 09.05.07

I've got my first counselling session tonight.

I'm a nervous wreck.

10:32 / 09.05.07

Are you being counselled or are you doing the counselling? If you're doing the counselling, then lots of luck, what are you a counsellor in? I'm always amazed about people who become counsellors. What do you do about the people who really just need a good shake?

If you're being counselled then you have no reason to be nervous at all, it's a helpful and good thing.

Mos Nolte, I think the considering other options route is the best. Good luck.

Decadent Daytripper in Love

10:41 / 09.05.07

I think this about imaginary mouse's mention of liking to try undergoing counselling in the Social Phobias/Anxiety thread. If it's not, I've stuck my foot in it, but if it is, I hope some good is coming of it and not just added stress. That's kinda the point, I gather, and if it's counselling for something else, or for someone else, well, I don't really not hope that does some good, either.

13:30 / 09.05.07

i've an interview at the national science and technology centre - questacon - tomorrow morning. stuck back in the bureacracy after a wonderful gig at a cutting edge mind research centre folded last year - i have to escape...

cross fingers.

13:40 / 09.05.07

Goodest of luck astrojax.

I've got an interview on Sunday at the MAC which is a community Arts centre. I want to work there part time and contribute to my community, because when you work from home you do very little of that. I've been through the first round - a big group interview and this is the formal one to one. So wish luck for me.

Decadent Daytripper in Love

13:44 / 09.05.07

Here's hoping you both rock the interviews like Van Morrison on the top of his game. And, get the jobs, obviously.

14:15 / 09.05.07

I’m not a counsellor, just a counsellee.

I’ve been considering therapy on and off for the last ten years but never had the guts to ask for help before. I’ve always seen it as my last resort, so I would be gutted if it didn’t work out.

14:56 / 09.05.07

FIAT LUCKS for all of you.

Notes from Boris-town

15:18 / 09.05.07

Goodness and luck, all! My interview went well - won't know until end of week if I'm offered the job, but I'm happy nonetheless. Thanks for the support!

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