Thursday, November 24, 2005

Getting a job as part of a job

Here is how it goes. My boss decides to apply for a job he sees and sends in my resume. As a consequence I spend the most part of today applying for a job. It went like this:
- [11:00 am] call the employment agency (hays) to arrange an interview
- [01:00 pm] have an interview with the agency
- [02:00 pm] have a practical test on jsp, something I've worked with for about 2 days in my life
- [03:30 pm] they arrange interview with the actual employer

Anyway, the interviews went pretty good. It's good to know that things can go well and if I needed and really started to look for a job out of desperation, there is some chance I wouldn't end up on the street ... or developing OS for the dole?!

As a consequence I think I have a new job, under the old one - outsourced, starting Monday till the end of the year. I'll be on the 12th floor on the corner of a building on King William, finishing some chump's jsp program, cause he left all of a sudden (or was sacrificed in the transmutation of gold or some other random precious metal) and some other php search engine thingy. The people there seem really nice, and with a small IT team, I have a feeling it will be a good working environment. The time is flexible (there was something mentioned about 10am or whenever ... I liked the sound of that). No matter what happens, if it goes ahead it will be a good experience and a chance how others work.
On the slightly bad side, I'll have to find a way to get to the city each morning.

Oh, well, let's leave things to take their turn.

2 comments:

khendar said...

Congrats on the job.

And..dude you live 5 minutes from the city - You can walk it.

Failing that - the busses will take you straight there.

Ivan Peevski said...

it's 15-20 run ... 30-40m for a stroll , enjoying the park lands ;)

140s bus stops right there :) but it still takes 30mins to get there during traffic hour :(