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I got a job at last!

09:14 / 19.10.04

I'm still shocked! I'm gonna be a Records Clerk at my local doctors, it's probably until march next year but there's a chance of it being extended. I've never had a job like this I've only ever worked in greenhouses, labouring, or in a factory so I'm chuffed that I've got this, I didn't really think I stood a chance of getting it, then at the end of the interview I had today the interviewer said the job was mine if I wanted it, I was gobsmacked.

I'm gonna sign off with a huge grin on my face.

The first thing I said as I walked home was 'Thanks Goddess', because, well, she rocks. I'll say it again aswell.

T H A N K Y O U G O D D E S S

Anyway I'm gonna sit here in shock for a bit and then get back to Need For Speed Underground. I'm imagining Jack Frost wanting Xena on the telly just to get some reality, I'm getting my speed machine back on the streets for the same reason.

10:23 / 19.10.04

Congrats, Jack.

Be sure to post here any amusing illnesses, strangely-shaped genitalia or embarrassing growths you see in the records.

10:45 / 19.10.04

barbelith celebrates!

(hull prays it never gets ill again)

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:47 / 19.10.04

I foresee terrible mix-ups.

Patient: "Doctor, I came in for a simple check-up and you've amputated my legs!"

Doctor: "Why, these aren't your notes at all! Damn that wretched boy!"

Finn: "Woah man paradigm shift man stick it to the man man!"

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:27 / 19.10.04

No, you fool, I said "whip off his spectacles".

Seriously, though, nice one, mate.

13:13 / 19.10.04

Finn: "Woah man paradigm shift man stick it to the man man!"

Ha, that was funny but I'll be inside the system shortly, I'll be part of it, so I'll have to be covert.

Thanks anyway, I'm looking forward to it. My mates will be in shock too and I'm out drinking with them all day saturday so I'll be able to celebrate a bit and have sunday to recover.

XXII:X:II = XXX

04:31 / 20.10.04

Not to steal any of Jack's thunder, but in the past week I've also been confirmed for a full-time job for the first time in almost 8 months. Talk about it being down to the wire on my finances. No, strike that, it was past that point a couple times, and may yet be before I'm in the clear. But nevertheless, I have a job.

If any of the NYClithers come by the reopened FAO Schwarz during the holidays, they will find me randomly placed, being paid to play with toys for the amusement of kids and their well-heeled 'rents. I think I can handle that for a while.

Also, I'm going to play a major role in a movie filming next month, which I'll talk more about in its own thread as I see fit. That, I hope, will in itself be the start of a good many awesome things.

Lest this post come off too self-involved, congrats on your good fortune, Jack. We ought to figure out what we're both doing right and keep doing it.

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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:21 / 20.10.04

And that'll be another "nice one, mate" for Vlad!

14:17 / 20.10.04

Congratulations, Jack & Vlad. I am pleased for you.

14:25 / 20.10.04

Thanks, and congrats Vlad! I agree that we should find out what we're doing right aswell. I'm kind of stumped at the moment but I'm still trying to find out what it is.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

14:34 / 20.10.04

Nice one! Either of you care to waft some of that job-getting-mojo my way?

XXII:X:II = XXX

05:35 / 21.10.04

*waft waft waft*

I'd like to think that it was repeated casting of my personal sigil that got me the job, but the more likely explanation was that after so many months and so many resumes and such sent out it was becoming pretty damn ridiculous that someone of my pedigree couldn't get a job.

Actually, I first interviewed, or more properly auditioned, for this job back in July or August, got called back to take a test last month, and finally heard a couple weeks ago. That could be the longest interview process I've ever undergone in my career.

And let me restate my conviction that temp agencies are a waste of office space and bodies placed in chairs in front of desks. Why am I willing sign over a portion of my salary to people who I have to call on a daily basis just for them to say, "Oh, I had a job for which you would have been a good fit, but that was this morning." Oh, this morning. THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL ME THIS MORNING?!?

*stab stab stab*

Thanks for all your wine fishes. May we drain the system of its ill-gotten money and with it rebuild the world in our own stunningly beautiful images.

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08:23 / 21.10.04

I just got to work I had an interview this morning, it was possibly the most relaxed one I've been to the guy was very chatty.

I've got a good chance but it all depends on the guy he's interviewing this afternoon, I have to hope the guy this afternoon has too much experience because they've had someone like that before and they tend to try and re-invent the wheel he tells me...

I want a new job!