TV ate my life

Soooo, I'm not sure how the interview went on Friday. I thought it was okay, I've had worse ones and got the job. But I don't have a lot of interview experience, so I don't know. I got a call from the agency because the other agency I had worked for when I was doing the telesales job, which I had put down as a reference, was having trouble remembering who I was, or something. So they are looking for references. That's good news, surely. But the people said that they wouldn't check references until I had been offered and accepted a job, so that's a bit weird.

I went to the job centre to day to get started on jobseekers. Weirdly, it wasn't full of shirtless morons and teenage mums with seven kids. I must have gotten a good day.

I've got the meeting thing at another agency tomorrow, and my mum says that her friend from Australia says that his son could probably get me a call center job over there, working for Telstra. Which would be cool...

My life

Some time yesterday, the guy from the place where I had that interview rang up. I was at school, so my mum answered. He said he'd ring back at four, but he didn't. I've got another interview on Monday too, a sales job (I'm so not a sales person, but the job I interviewed seemed so mind numbingly boring I would prefer something more of a challenge if I can get it.) and now I don't know that to do. If I've got this first job, I'll probably start on Monday, which is when the interview is. And if I then get the second job, I'd have to leave straight away, which seems a bit bad. But I can't not take the first job if they offer me it, because I probably won't get the sales one. So I'm a bit stuck. Plus, he didn't ring back yesterday, so maybe he forgot or offered someone else the job. Or else he'll ring again today when I'm having my driving lesson or something. Annoying. I hate not knowing what's going on.


other peoples lives
I overheard two CSAs talking in the staffroom at school yesterday. One of them has a friend whose kids go to the same school as someone out of the Beautiful South. She saw him at the school gates and for some reason had a copy of their latest CD in her handbag. As you do. I guess she just bought it or something. So this CSA was going on about how she should have asked him to sign it for him, but she didn't because she'd look a bit weird carrying their CDs around in her handbag. Hee. Just struck me as funny.


A kebab shop blew up five minutes walk from my house. I walk past there all the time, very scary.

And guess where it is? Exactly the same place as my last job. Not just the same building, but the same floor. And since FTS went, I'd guess the other place that shared the 5th floor with us has expanded. That would explain why they are hiring... So who know, if I get this I could end up sitting in exactly the same place. How weird would that be?!

The job's only part time though, but "With the opportunity for loads of overtime," apparently. And a chance to turn full time later maybe. And even if it's only the part time 16 hours I'll still be getting twice as much as on jobseekers. Which is good. And it looks a little easier than the last job, because the people ring you instead. So my fingers are crossed. The interview is tomorrow.

And today I have to go in town and visit Right4staff, so if this doesn't work out, maybe they'll find me something.


Life on Mars is out on DVD today. I'd decided not to get it, since I have no job and no money and have just bought The Girl From Tomorrow anyway. But I may get it anyway just because I'm all opptomistic and stuff. And then if I don't get the job, at least I'll have some good TV to watch while sulking.

None of the agencies rang me back yesterday. I did take Milly out for a walk, but I did it almost straight after sending the e-mails and I doubt any of them will have rand then, let alone all of them. So now I have to hang around today waiting. Well, Milly gets her walk today too. Apart from that though, I have nothing to do. I was planning on writing a few episodes of random programs to disk, lounging around in the sun reading, and maybe even giving my room a quick tidy. And if I feel like it later, I might make some rice pudding. I was kinda craving some last night.

I'm officially unemployed. We were supposed to leave work at six yesterday instead of nine, but the Kingston Communications people were there at half twelve telling us they wanted to get started on moving out the unused computers and that we had to be gone by half four. I think they were in a rush to get rid of us. So we had a fairly relaxed morning, we were right at the end of the file, so we were only getting calls every ten minutes or so, and most of them took two minutes for the person who answered to say the person we needed was out. I rarely get any sales before 6, so I wasn't expecting to get any before 4.30 on a day with no calls. I got one though, so I was quite pleased about that. Especially since we were on double commission all this week, so that was an extra £5. I got £30 commission this week. Not bad.

There was one particularly amusing moment when one of the KComs people waked Rob (the boss) where we were all going now this job was over. He said "We're off to Admiral," that's a pub in town where we were planning on starting off the night. She had meant job-wise, though.

So, we had a glass (well, plastic cup) of champagne at work, then we all left. Ema, the only other remaining person who started at the same time as me, decided to take the sign off the wall as a memento. The is a huge sign, that she actually needed help to carry, that said 'fts' on it. We had all signed it, and it went with us to the pub.

We started at Retro because we could sit outside in the sun, then moved to Admiral of the Humber for food, then on to a series of random bars in town, ending up at somewhere I'd never been before called Revolution, where everyone disappeared while I was in the loo. I met Wendy and Rosie in the loos, we went back to find that the only person left was Rosie's boyfriend, who told us everyone had gone. I was a little pissed off, since I was supposed to be sharing a taxi with Rob, and I knew Rosie and her boyfriend would be walking home and Wendy was going completely the other way.

So Rosie and Wayne set off home, Wendy met up with one of the other girls outside the club and they decided to share the taxi she had booked, and I was stuck because I knew I had no hope of getting a taxi now without waiting for about two hours. I texted my dad on the off chance that that he was still in town, since he normally goes for a drink after the gym on Fridays, but he was already home, he volunteered to come and get me anyway, so I got a lift home.

And that was my night.

Now begins operation get a new job...

Well, that's all the jobs I applied for last week that I've got rejection letters for. Sigh. I'm getting more than a little sick of this. I mean, why exactly am I not good enough to do data input for Jacksons?

Anyway, I'm off to the REM concert in a bit, so I refuse to be depressed. Even though it's going to rain (plastic bag bandanna on standby!). I'll be depressed later when I check the jobs site and find nothing I could do that I haven't already applied for.

So, what did I do today? Watched two random films, watched 2 episodes of Futurama, watched yesterday's Doctor Who again with Jennie and my dad, watched House.

It's not as bad as it sounds. I did most of this TV watching while doing other stuff. Boring stuff like ironing. You can't do that without watching TV. And I ironed for 3 hours. How sad is that? Well, at least it's done now...

Tomorrow though, I have plans. I'm going to write. All day. Most of the day, anyway. I'm going to start a new Traders story, then maybe work on some other stuff that I've not finished. And catch up on my fanfic reading too. Yeah, so most people would say it's not the most exciting plan, but at least it's not just watching TV. And on the night I'm off to the pictures. So yay, leaving the house, always a good sign.

And I'm going to do some job hunting too. Because it's just so much fun.

Must take deep breaths but not hyperventilate. Interview in 10 hours, 55 minutes. I will not panic. I won't.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!

Great. Now how am I going to get to sleep?

My sister told me her friend wrote to P&O Ferries to try to get a job on the boat and they kept her letter on file, then wrote to her a few days ago offering her an interview. I wrote to P&A Ferries and got a "no thanks". Charming. Well, Jennie says her friend also included a bit of writing in German and French to prove she had other languages. She's only got GCSE level though. I wonder if that made a difference? Because maybe I should try again, if they liked her GCSEs, they're gonna like my degree...

I could write a bit in German and Spanish, and maybe Dutch too (despite only having studied it for 2 semesters) since they go from here to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge. And I should totally get on with improving my French, I hate that I don't speak it!

And if that doesn't work, the Debenhams and Tesco are apparently hiring.

The woman at the agency said she would ring today if I got that telesales job. She didn't ring. So I guess I didn't get it. Damn damn damn! I could have so do it as well. Okay, it wouldn't have been my dream job, but I could have done it! Oh well.

It said on the news that the first episode of the new Dr Who series has been leaked onto the internet. I am very tempted to get it. You know, I wouldn't have thought the BBC would want to advertise that. But it was on their news. Hehehe. Well, I found it. Now, should I get it or should I wait a few weeks..?

Watched the Traders ep again. And I knew there would be something that I forgot to mention last night. What the smeg was that TV program they were watching?! It was like financial news or something, but the presenter, (who had glasses exactly like the guy off the Halifax adverts) was talking like it was some kind of gossip program or something, with the main people at Gardner Ross as celebrities. It was pretty funny. Do programs like that actually exist? Because I want to watch one if they do!

Went rollerblading today! A Traders-influenced decision. Well, that woman was blading in the park, and then Grant was on his rollerskates, and it made me jealous. So I mentioned it to my sister, and she was all enthusiastic, so we went and skated around for a bit. Not done it in years, it was fun!