15
Jan
2010
Four months?
A week later. A week full with head hunters, job applications, phone calls and trying to keep up the spirit at work. The latter is one of the most difficult things to do, but let’s not focus on the negative.
This week my current employment agency called to chat and see how I am doing. An effort I can really appreciate and I was very pleased that a genuine conversation was held.
From the lady calling me I understood that I ought to be happy being invited to an interview at all, and that is it normal to be without work for four months now.
FOUR months.
Me, a person that cannot stand being alone for a long time with nothing to do… four months at home playing happy housewife, it will kill me!
There must be an alternative. So to remind myself of things I could do when the walls of my home will be closing in on me:
- Make new online portfolio (designy)
- Learn C# (not sure why)
- Pick up salsa dancing again (once I was quite good)
- Take second course in sign language (most useless skill I have obtained in my life)
- Volunteer at pet’s shelter (stinky but useful)
- Bobbin Lace “Dutch: kantklossen” (not just for old people!)
Not sure what it is going to be, perhaps all of it together. As long as it keeps me from watching TV every day the whole day just because I have nothing better to do.
5
Jan
2010
Two days further
No surprises from the side where I would have expected them (see last post). Nothing, not a person telling rules, no guidelines, no new org-charts, nothing! I decided to work like I did before and not let things slide these last weeks, keep positive although it are the last weeks. If there is no plan, I’ll make my own.
So I just scouted for some interesting requests, and actually found so much I can call myself a busy girl this week!
By the way, this morning I’ve sent emails around to some clients that my leave is nearing. It is kind of emotional to keep informing people that you loved working with that you’re leaving. And I know that in the eyes of Philips everyone is replaceable but I would like to think different of my clients, hoping they do the same about me.
For the first in a long time have been coding HTML/CSS in Notepad++ again from nothing (I really hate dreamweaver and such as that is not a skill, that is a trick). It was a thrill finding out that the knowledge is still present somewhere there in that brain of mine.
Tomorrow morning I’ll have a job interview, far from my home. That might mean we (Kees, the cat and myself) need to move, but let’s first see if they like me at all, before drawing any conclusions.
The day after another job interview in Eindhoven, and perhaps finally some news on a job I had applied for a long time ago (more than 2 weeks).
All in all, hectic in the job department, but hopefully my new challenge and inspirational future will come out of it!
