It has been a very slow, very stressful few weeks. I kept thinking i should make a blog post and then thought: what the hell about? About how much I am working? About how pissed I am with the fools running my company? About how much I hate looking for work? About how much I hate dealing with recruiters? I did have one idea that i wanted to post, but i forgot about it by the time i got home. 
The new place is turning out well and i should be all unpacked this weekend, which will be great.
We lost the Finance Manager today; great person, both competent, energetic and gorgeous. If we hadn't worked together i would have asked her out. I'm fairly sure she'd say no if i asked, but still lots of goodness in one package. I'm a sucker for cute girlie nerds
As we loose our best people the rest of us have to pick up the pieces and she is going to be very hard to replace. Can't blame her for jumping ship though: I just wish i could jump to! Applied for more jobs this week and in many ways it is a numbers game: the more you apply for the greater chance you have of getting a hit. I do note how specific a lot of the job ads are getting. I suspect employers are taking natural advantage of the recession to get picky about the skill sets they hire. I've got a resume out for one job at the moment that involves a lot of APAC and US travel, which would be great. I even managed to speak to the recruiter, which is unusual, and I hope to get a follow up call next week.
I got into the Masters degree at Sydney Uni I wanted too!
Start some time in July, which would be amusing if i got the job with all the travel because I probably couldn't do both 
It will be interesting to see what Murphy has in store for me. The big choice now is what subjects i do. I am only doing part time. One reason i was hoping to get retrenched was that I would then have enough cash to go to uni full time for a year and knock the Masters over in 12 months. As always Murphy is a bastard. Any way, since i am only part time I am going to limit myself to two subjects and the now is the fun part of picking them
The new place is turning out well and i should be all unpacked this weekend, which will be great.
We lost the Finance Manager today; great person, both competent, energetic and gorgeous. If we hadn't worked together i would have asked her out. I'm fairly sure she'd say no if i asked, but still lots of goodness in one package. I'm a sucker for cute girlie nerds
As we loose our best people the rest of us have to pick up the pieces and she is going to be very hard to replace. Can't blame her for jumping ship though: I just wish i could jump to! Applied for more jobs this week and in many ways it is a numbers game: the more you apply for the greater chance you have of getting a hit. I do note how specific a lot of the job ads are getting. I suspect employers are taking natural advantage of the recession to get picky about the skill sets they hire. I've got a resume out for one job at the moment that involves a lot of APAC and US travel, which would be great. I even managed to speak to the recruiter, which is unusual, and I hope to get a follow up call next week.
I got into the Masters degree at Sydney Uni I wanted too!
Start some time in July, which would be amusing if i got the job with all the travel because I probably couldn't do both It will be interesting to see what Murphy has in store for me. The big choice now is what subjects i do. I am only doing part time. One reason i was hoping to get retrenched was that I would then have enough cash to go to uni full time for a year and knock the Masters over in 12 months. As always Murphy is a bastard. Any way, since i am only part time I am going to limit myself to two subjects and the now is the fun part of picking them