Much further out than you thought
Mar. 19th, 2003 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j4I feel so far from everybody.
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Spent last night hiding in my Lerkim (sadly, I can't find a picture of the original Lerkim on the web!). Got lots of stuff done that I can't do at work -- printing photos, uploading user pics for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pto452, and trying to write a job application. This job is one that I definitely would want if they offered it to me -- it's an administrative job at the Refugee Council in Oakington: sounds interesting, is significantly better paid than my current job, and is more worthwhile.) Also made a start on scanning and keying the Morris Minor (Series II) owner's manual -- I want to turn it into a useful and properly cross-referenced web resource for moggy owners.
I feel as though I should feel that I've achieved something.
Gordon from Cambridge Kitchens came round this morning at 8:45a.m. (!) to take some more measurements and confirm some bits of the kitchen design. Probably just as well we had that early appointment to get us out of bed; I didn't get to sleep till after 3a.m. (didn't finish job application till 2a.m., had a bath, then tossed and turned and generally felt grotty and eventually got to sleep in the ungodly hours of the morning. And just when I was starting to think that sleep was getting better (actually slept through the previous two nights!).
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Trying to make a conscious effort to be cheerful. To be honest, it doesn't really feel any more fake or forced than any other emotions at the moment.
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Spent last night hiding in my Lerkim (sadly, I can't find a picture of the original Lerkim on the web!). Got lots of stuff done that I can't do at work -- printing photos, uploading user pics for
pto452, and trying to write a job application. This job is one that I definitely would want if they offered it to me -- it's an administrative job at the Refugee Council in Oakington: sounds interesting, is significantly better paid than my current job, and is more worthwhile.) Also made a start on scanning and keying the Morris Minor (Series II) owner's manual -- I want to turn it into a useful and properly cross-referenced web resource for moggy owners.I feel as though I should feel that I've achieved something.
Gordon from Cambridge Kitchens came round this morning at 8:45a.m. (!) to take some more measurements and confirm some bits of the kitchen design. Probably just as well we had that early appointment to get us out of bed; I didn't get to sleep till after 3a.m. (didn't finish job application till 2a.m., had a bath, then tossed and turned and generally felt grotty and eventually got to sleep in the ungodly hours of the morning. And just when I was starting to think that sleep was getting better (actually slept through the previous two nights!).
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Trying to make a conscious effort to be cheerful. To be honest, it doesn't really feel any more fake or forced than any other emotions at the moment.
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Date: 2003-03-19 06:05 am (UTC)No, no, the scary thing is not the fact that it took 700 applications to get a handful of interviews -- that's not too surprising given (as you say) the fucked state of the IT sector; the scary thing is the fact that you managed to do that many applications, without going stark raving ... ah, I see. :)
The ideal CV straddles the line between science fiction and science fantasy - robust plausibility and the occasional interesting flight of fancy
The one for the Refugee Council was a heady mixture of spin and fictionalised truth, with a light frosting of outright lies. ;)
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Date: 2003-03-19 07:33 am (UTC)The trouble is that there are all sorts of jobs I could have done and gotten paid tolerably for, e.g. audio typing - but there's no way in hell my CV will let me within a mile of those. I was working on the skill of lying downwards rather than upwards ...