Well it looks like I am going back to work. After two years of being unemployed and looking for IT support work, I will be joining British Gas as a customer service executive, or phone monkey. But it is work. It means I am off the Government's lists and earning, and they say it is easier to get a job once you have got one, so maybe next step will ( Read more... )

Well the looting has been going on for several nights now, London has been in flames, even here in Leicester last night they attacked shops in the town centre. My main thoughts are that Looting is NOT protesting, it is criminal. Nor are they are attacking 'the rich' as two girls were claiming when interviewed in London, they are attacking the hard ( Read more... )

Right, second and last warning. If you are bothered at all about staying friends here let me know, that does include you wifey dearest! The two people who have replied are staying :) if anyone comes back to their LJ after months and realises they have missed it and been de-friended let me know and you are back on the list. I still haven't thought ( Read more... )

I never really do anything much with this LJ, certainly nothing profound or informative or insightful. I have decided I am going to try to do something useful with it in future. While I work out exactly what that is going to be I will be cleaning up the friends list and things. If you are interested at all in staying let me know, otherwise I will ( Read more... )

Well I was intending to go camping in Glastonbury for the week of my birthday but Teeko, our eldest cat, decided to get sick the day or so before we were due to leave. Although he seems to be doing okay we deemed it too unsure to go off camping, we had to rush him to the vet at 2:30am in an emergency mercy dash. Trizia didn't expect him to survive ( Read more... )

Hello to anyone still seeing any of these, I post infrequently these days and I doubt they are actually of interest to anyone ( Read more... )

I have a job interview tomorrow at 10:30am. I had two job interviews a fortnight ago, one for a 23k job that was just a job but paid well, one for a 17k job that didn't pay so well but looked like being really great. I got very excited and started thinking about a life of work once more. The interviews were on the same day, same city, ten minutes ( Read more... )

Today I am waiting. I have been to interviews for a job, had the telephone interview, the first interview, the second interview. I know it is between myself and three others. They are meant to be making a decision 'at/by the end of the week ( Read more... )

Applying for jobs again today. I was at Working Links, the ones I have to go to as penance for daring to be unable to get myself employed in this recession. I was phoned up while there by an agency that wanted to put me forwards for a job. After some chat we established it was a job I had been to an interview for about a year ago. The Royal Bank of ( Read more... )

Hunting for jobs. Applied to a couple today. I have found that contrary to prior-belief the Leicester Mercury job site does actually have some IT support jobs, and being for Leicester most of the jobs are actually in the area. My other major job search keeps giving me jobs way away in Yorkshire even though I have set the distance attribute to 25 ( Read more... )