Polls apart

[j4]

Two 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]

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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.

Comments

[kaet.livejournal.com]

Why not do the interview and grill them a bit, too, to try to find out if you really want the job, and decide afterwards?

Could you have the party on an adjacent weekend? You could have a bunting type affair on another Saturday (okay, it's not spring bank, but there's always other stuff happening spring bank, anyway, and adjacent weekends are often bare because stuff gets shifted to take account of the free Monday). Then you could have a little soireeéeèêée on vendredi ou samedi soir for a select few, and a big årsmöte on the next weekend or the previous.

(Mummy, Swedish is being rude to me!)

[j4.livejournal.com]

Why not do the interview and grill them a bit, too, to try to find out if you really want the job, and decide afterwards?

Because the interview is a lot of faff for a job that I'm already pretty sure I don't really want. I suppose they could turn around at the interview and say "Ah-ha! You have l33t skills. You would be wasted on a lowly job in accountancy; we will make you Lord High Dictator of the World instead", but I think it's unlikely.

I dunno. I feel like I should do the interview, but I really don't want to. And part of that is not wanting to do the interview, but a lot of it is being fairly sure that I wouldn't want to do the job.

Could you have the party on an adjacent weekend?

See my reply to julietk's comment...

What does the Swedish word (I can't be bothered to look up how to reproduce an a-with-a-dot-over-it as an entity ref) mean?

[kaet.livejournal.com]

It means annual (år) get-together (möt).

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

The interview's a faff, you don't want the job, anyway. Seems to me you've got your answer right there. And doing an interview for a job you don't want, just for experience or whatever, is a thoroughly dispiriting and negative experience - and I've done a few of them over the last year of enforced idleness.