Daily Archives: September 26, 2008

Happy Jobs

I was offered one job which made me pleased and another that has made me happy. Very fortunate to be in such a position in the current market – all those banks crashing about, thousands losing jobs and possibly much more. Strangely many of my classmates seem to be having similar good luck at the moment, which has got to be good news for the new MBA’s starting in a matter of days.

The happy factor has everything to do with where I will get to live and the people who I will get to work with, opportunity that they then present. I will be working with the Strategy Director on the revamping of a hospital in London. Who knows what that will be like but I am ready to give it a read hot go! So fingers crossed they will hurry up and get that form to me soon – as that I am sign, sealed and delivered.

Really it is all excellent news..there is an end in sight to the terminal job search anxiety and a date when the cash flow will start to trickle back in.

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a fresh new torture

There is a new thorn in my side. Who would have thought that there was something on par with the horror of job hunting. And who would have thought it would find me so quickly!

I am on the share flat circuit and despite the number of helpful websites out there like moveflat and gumtree it is such a nightmare. Trawling through the long lists, learning to guess from the picture how much space there actually is between the wall and the bed, precisely how many people live in the flat and making decisions on whether that person is a well controled sociopath or just delightfully eccentric.

Grim Grim Grim.