Polls apart
Mar. 18th, 2003 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j4Two polls, about completely different things. Basically I just feel utterly unable to make any decisions at the moment...
1. I've been called for interview for another job, "Information and Performance Officer" or something for the NHS. The job pays less than my current job, but it's fewer hours. (I originally thought that the extra time would be more beneficial to me than the extra money.) It would also involve lots of financial stuff, including some training in accountancy.
The problem? I'm no longer sure at all that I'd want the job even if they offered it to me. I know I'm not a "career girl", but it still feels like a step backward somehow, or at least a step in the wrong direction sideways. Also, I'd need to get together lots of documentation and fill in lots more forms, not to mention getting time off work somehow, if I was going to go to the interview; I know that shouldn't affect my decision, but it does -- it seems like a lot of faff (and wasted holiday allowance) for something I'm not really motivated to do.
[Poll #114035]
2. I don't know what to do about my birthday celebrations this year. My birthday's on the 5th of May, which is the May Day Bank Holiday. This would normally make things easier, as I'd have more time to have a party and recover from it. However, there's a big national martial arts seminar on the Sunday of that weekend (4th May), which ordinarily I'd have been keen to go to (it's a weapons seminar -- lots of shiny swords etc.). But if I go to that, this basically means I can't have a party on the Saturday night, as I'll have to be up on Sunday morning in time to be in Swindon earlyish.
Other facts to bear in mind: There aren't likely to be many seminars like this, at least no more this year; the seminar costs £60; I want to be able to invite out-of-town people to my party, which would probably mean them staying the night.
[Poll #114036]
Okay, so this is all displacement from the real immediate stresses of the moment. But if it works, and helps me make some decisions, then it can't be a bad thing.
Sigh.
1. I've been called for interview for another job, "Information and Performance Officer" or something for the NHS. The job pays less than my current job, but it's fewer hours. (I originally thought that the extra time would be more beneficial to me than the extra money.) It would also involve lots of financial stuff, including some training in accountancy.
The problem? I'm no longer sure at all that I'd want the job even if they offered it to me. I know I'm not a "career girl", but it still feels like a step backward somehow, or at least a step in the wrong direction sideways. Also, I'd need to get together lots of documentation and fill in lots more forms, not to mention getting time off work somehow, if I was going to go to the interview; I know that shouldn't affect my decision, but it does -- it seems like a lot of faff (and wasted holiday allowance) for something I'm not really motivated to do.
[Poll #114035]
2. I don't know what to do about my birthday celebrations this year. My birthday's on the 5th of May, which is the May Day Bank Holiday. This would normally make things easier, as I'd have more time to have a party and recover from it. However, there's a big national martial arts seminar on the Sunday of that weekend (4th May), which ordinarily I'd have been keen to go to (it's a weapons seminar -- lots of shiny swords etc.). But if I go to that, this basically means I can't have a party on the Saturday night, as I'll have to be up on Sunday morning in time to be in Swindon earlyish.
Other facts to bear in mind: There aren't likely to be many seminars like this, at least no more this year; the seminar costs £60; I want to be able to invite out-of-town people to my party, which would probably mean them staying the night.
[Poll #114036]
Okay, so this is all displacement from the real immediate stresses of the moment. But if it works, and helps me make some decisions, then it can't be a bad thing.
Sigh.
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Date: 2003-03-18 06:51 am (UTC)Party: I admit to being influenced by wanting to come, but already being booked on the Saturday (Rich's birthday) :-) You ought to be able to get back from seminar on the Sunday in time for party, though, & if it's going to be close can't you get someone to be proxy-hostess for an hour or so if necessary? I certainly reckon you'll get more out-of-town folk on the Sunday than the Friday.
(& there is *no way* that you'll manage the party-then-seminar option, realistically, is there now? :-) )
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Date: 2003-03-18 07:20 am (UTC)I don't think it's really the kind of job I'd enjoy. I think I'd be able to put up with it, and if it was (for example) more money, or even a better location, or something, then it might be worth it. But given that it's something that I'm not at all convinced I'd enjoy and it's miles away and it's worse-paid and it's a faff sorting out the interview ... oh, I don't know. I feel like my current job is so crap that I shouldn't be turning down any other possibilities, but then at least this job has the security of a known evil.
You ought to be able to get back from seminar on the Sunday in time for party, though
From past experience I'd probably get back about 8-9pm and be so shattered I couldn't face doing anything except eating lots of stodge and falling asleep...
I certainly reckon you'll get more out-of-town folk on the Sunday than the Friday.
Do you think so? I know not everybody gets Bank Holiday Monday off work, so I guess I was thinking that not everybody would be able to do Sunday night at all -- whereas Friday (leave work and get straight on a train or whatever) is do-able, if a bit of a faff, because people are v. unlikely to have to work on the Saturday.
Oh, I don't knoooooooow. I really just wish the seminar was ANY OTHER WEEKEND AT ALL.
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Date: 2003-03-18 07:24 am (UTC)On the upside: hey, you got an interview! This is a Good Thing in general, right? So you can be pleased about that even if you're not going to do it.
Party: if you know you'll likely be knackered, then that's different & definitely counts against Sunday. Have you considered just having it another weekend? Would make life easier, from the sound of things, & has the advantage of extending your birthday further :-)
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Date: 2003-03-18 09:47 am (UTC)That's a point. On the other hand, maybe they're only interviewing me because they're desperate to find someone who'll do this shit job...
Party: if you know you'll likely be knackered, then that's different & definitely counts against Sunday.
Well, I'll have basically been standing up all day, and waving swords around for most of the day. Last time I did a whole-afternoon sword seminar (and that was only with wooden practice sword) I couldn't lift my sword arm above my waist for two days afterwards...
Have you considered just having it another weekend? Would make life easier, from the sound of things, & has the advantage of extending your birthday further
Yeah, but... I dunno, I really wanted to have it near my actual birthday. Especially as that weekend is otherwise free for me, and the next weekend will be just before we get our kitchen replaced, so we probably should be packing kitchen stuff in boxes rather than creating heaps of washing-up...