Polls apart
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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: 2003-03-19 09:17 am (UTC)I'll be getting a lift down there with the rest of the school; that way I don't have to be awake enough to drive either beforehand (early morning) or afterwards (too knackered). So I don't think the complicated multi-part journey stuff is going to work, really. Sorry. And I'm certainly not going to try to host parties in a city that I don't live in while en route to somewhere else I don't live!!
To be honest I still really want to have the party on the weekend of my birthday. :-/ Am I behaving like a petulant small child here? Or is that a valid thing for a nearly-25-year-old to want?
(BTW I'm really surprised that people are seriously suggesting the Sunday -- AIUI not all jobs will automatically give people Bank Holidays off, and certainly those in academentia won't get them as holiday.)
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Date: 2003-03-19 09:25 am (UTC)Bank Holidays are odd things. It would make no difference to us, since I'm not working and DH can get BHs off, but I can see that some people would be hampered rather by the Sunday, not to mention the vagaries of public transport over BH weekends.
Crucial question, I guess: are you totally and utterly committed to the Sunday sword thing? If so, I think it's a Friday-into-Saturday party, and take your chances on who gets there when. :-(