The last couple of weeks a lot has happened. Quite big changes.
But before that I was starting to feeling bored and frustrated. Coming back from the moste wonderful holiday in Rio I found there was nothing much to look forward to. Nothing much happened at work and all my friends were to busy with their families and I don't know what, but I never saw them. All normal people started to look forward to the summer holidays but that is just another stressful moment for me as I never know what to do on my holiday until last moment. Everyone was just tired or ill or just in a very bad mood. Life was simply not very fun. I took out some of my frustration in a status up-date on Facebook, a couple of minutes later I had received and basically accepted an offer of a job in Brazil!
It was an almost religious expereice, as if someone up there saw me and realised I really desperatly needed something to happen (although I know perfeclty well how it all happened). Two days later I had an official offer and the concent of my boss to leave. It all seemed like a good idea for everyone. As my previous office need to cut costs and there was not too much to do anyway it would all be fine.
What happens after that?! Well it seems the whole world seemed to go crazy. First a civil war in Libya and then the absolutely mad situation in Japan with earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accidents. Since then we have worked more than ever. It has been crazy busy and all the time I thought I would have getting ready for Brazil has just vanished. I still look very much forward to Brazil, but at the same time it feels strange to leave the office at such a busy time and sad to say so, also interesting times. Not that I like disasters or conflicts to happen, of course not, at times I have felt some kind of disaster fatigue, feeling I cant't hear any bad news anymore, getting all depressed and cynical, but still this is what we work with and then of course it is interesting to see how the systems work when things happen, it is interesting to be a part of the handeling.
But soon it is time to change focus completely! I wonder what that will be like! :-)
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Change
It is amazing how fast things change sometimes. Unfortunatly I sometimes have the feeling it is more often to the worse, but sometimes it is really for the better. This Mondya I was so irritated and frustrated about my situation and my life here in Stockholm. I do really like my job, but felt a certain frustration for some time but worse is actually the lack of social life as everyone is so caught up in their relations and families or just simply too tired to do anything besides working.
I can understand that people are tired and don't have too much energy to do somthing else than just go home and watch tv. I am also tired at times, but I could not stand my life if working and sleeping was all I could do. Therefore, no matter how tired I am, or how much work I have I try to do things after work anyway. I go to the gym or would like to meet friends for a coffee or a movie or whatever. But this "whatever" is becoming rarer and rarer as no one seems to have the time or engergy. This makes me very frustrated. And this Monday it had really annoyed me. This time of the year makes things even worse, it is cold and people are sick and irritated with everything. So this Monday was just not a good day and I started seriously considering how to make a change.
The, out of the blue there was a light on the dark sky. A hope was lit and everything felt much better. Since, this have keept my mind preoccupied and things are still working out well. I have an interesting challange to look forward to! :-)
I can understand that people are tired and don't have too much energy to do somthing else than just go home and watch tv. I am also tired at times, but I could not stand my life if working and sleeping was all I could do. Therefore, no matter how tired I am, or how much work I have I try to do things after work anyway. I go to the gym or would like to meet friends for a coffee or a movie or whatever. But this "whatever" is becoming rarer and rarer as no one seems to have the time or engergy. This makes me very frustrated. And this Monday it had really annoyed me. This time of the year makes things even worse, it is cold and people are sick and irritated with everything. So this Monday was just not a good day and I started seriously considering how to make a change.
The, out of the blue there was a light on the dark sky. A hope was lit and everything felt much better. Since, this have keept my mind preoccupied and things are still working out well. I have an interesting challange to look forward to! :-)
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Change - again
Today was kind of the last day at work, at least for a while. Ok, I am working tomorrow as well, but will spend the whole day out of office on a seminar. I will have to go back on Monday as well to finish some things but I do actually start my holiday on Monday and then June 1 I start my other job.
I am really looking forward to start my new work, but the funny thing is I have looked forward to it so much now, I haven’t really thought about that it also means changing colleagues again. It struck me just this Tuesday when we came back from a two days conference with our whole unit, i.e. both my old and current colleagues. After a month and a half at the new office I have started to get to know the colleagues there better and like them as well. But now I will have to change again. It is actually rather energy consuming. It is the third time I change colleagues (and work in a way) in six months. I really look forward to my holiday and the new job and hope I will be able to focus and give 100%. I am fed up with the limbo-situation I have been in for quite some time.
I am really looking forward to start my new work, but the funny thing is I have looked forward to it so much now, I haven’t really thought about that it also means changing colleagues again. It struck me just this Tuesday when we came back from a two days conference with our whole unit, i.e. both my old and current colleagues. After a month and a half at the new office I have started to get to know the colleagues there better and like them as well. But now I will have to change again. It is actually rather energy consuming. It is the third time I change colleagues (and work in a way) in six months. I really look forward to my holiday and the new job and hope I will be able to focus and give 100%. I am fed up with the limbo-situation I have been in for quite some time.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Flu, The Media and The People
Today I got involved in the preparedness work for the possibly pandemic swine flu. This is completely new to me, but it is quite interesting to see how these things work. It is also quite interesting to see how the media work from this perspective.
Ok, it was a very long time since I trusted what media reported, not since I worked with migration matters. But still this is new! The whole day I sat in conferenses with the responsible authorities and in our situation room. Still I get to hear a completely different story in the evening news on tv. Although they were referring to the same authorities and the information basically the same, the angle was quite different and it gave quite a different picture. But of course; if they would have just said what the authorities said and only talked about the confirmed cases it would not have been that spectacular and sensational...
However, I might not be the most suitable person to work with these matters. I might just be "too cool", I am just not the worrying kind. What I worry most about right now is that I might have to work this weekend. Instead of having a real long weekend. :-(
But on the other had there are persons who just worry too much. One of my colleagies got a call today from a person who wanted to know where he could find the hoarding lists. It took my colleague quite some time to figure out what the person meant, bt obviously he thought there were lists on things one might need to hoard in case one would get isolated. It took her even longer time to explain that there are no such lists and there is no reason for such lists and there will be no such lists nor reason to get isolated etc etc...
Ok, it was a very long time since I trusted what media reported, not since I worked with migration matters. But still this is new! The whole day I sat in conferenses with the responsible authorities and in our situation room. Still I get to hear a completely different story in the evening news on tv. Although they were referring to the same authorities and the information basically the same, the angle was quite different and it gave quite a different picture. But of course; if they would have just said what the authorities said and only talked about the confirmed cases it would not have been that spectacular and sensational...
However, I might not be the most suitable person to work with these matters. I might just be "too cool", I am just not the worrying kind. What I worry most about right now is that I might have to work this weekend. Instead of having a real long weekend. :-(
But on the other had there are persons who just worry too much. One of my colleagies got a call today from a person who wanted to know where he could find the hoarding lists. It took my colleague quite some time to figure out what the person meant, bt obviously he thought there were lists on things one might need to hoard in case one would get isolated. It took her even longer time to explain that there are no such lists and there is no reason for such lists and there will be no such lists nor reason to get isolated etc etc...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Disaster Management at the Office
As my job is connected to disaster/crisis management it seems logical that there is a disaster-film-club at the office. The films shown by the club should be disasters in double meaning, i.e. be about disaster and be disastrously bad, i.e. real turkeys. Today they showed Rymdinvasion i Lappland (Space invasion in Lappland) from 1959. The film is Swedish but the dialogue is in (bad) English as it is a Swedish-American production. However I am not surprised it did not make it in Hollywood. In fact I don’t think it made it anywhere. The film is disastrously bad and hilariously funny! If you like turkey-films. It made me think of Plan 9 from outer space. The story, in case you can call it a story is incredibly thin and there are plenty of long scenes of skiing on the mountain and some completely unmotivated scenes of skating and a lady in the shower. It is just funny and simply impossible to describe.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0053232
www.vujer.com/filmer/rymdinvasion_i_lappland_1958
www.russin.nu/filmview.php?filmid=1151
To add to the somewhat surreal atmosphere at our show the sound only worked the first three minutes on our copy. There was no way we could make it work, but since we had all gathered and started drinking some wine and as the film had subtitles we decided to watch it anyway. When we got tired of the silence one of my colleagues started adding music that he streamed from Spotify. I must say he did a terrific job. He started out with some Bond-music, which worked splendidly! We realised this must be the original Bond!! Then he changed into such different tunes as Thriller, Fly me to the moon and Det är så hälsosamt och stärkande i fjällen. It was a long time since I laughed that much. The comments from the audience also added some extra touch as we interpreted it all from a crisis management perspective with jokes that maybe only we could understand.
There was also a somewhat funny interlude to the show. The film club had promised some drinks and popcorn. I don’t know exactly what they did when they wanted to pop the popcorn, but all of a sudden the fire alarm went off and there was a terrible stench in our corridor. It seems they had burned the popcorn so badly all three microwave ovens were completely destroyed. As we very rapidly could establish the reason for the alarm and the smell we did not evacuate but continued working. Someone called back to SOS Alarm to inform them about the reason and say they did not have to send the fire brigade. But obviously it was too late or rather they had to come as it was an automatically generated alarm and we all had to evacuate. This was actually a bit embarrassing but also funny. Our office is really right in the centre of Stockholm and it is rather big so when all the people gathered in the street and then of course when the fire brigade came, it caused quite some attention. I can imagine people would find it quite amusing if they knew what happened and who caused it.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0053232
www.vujer.com/filmer/rymdinvasion_i_lappland_1958
www.russin.nu/filmview.php?filmid=1151
To add to the somewhat surreal atmosphere at our show the sound only worked the first three minutes on our copy. There was no way we could make it work, but since we had all gathered and started drinking some wine and as the film had subtitles we decided to watch it anyway. When we got tired of the silence one of my colleagues started adding music that he streamed from Spotify. I must say he did a terrific job. He started out with some Bond-music, which worked splendidly! We realised this must be the original Bond!! Then he changed into such different tunes as Thriller, Fly me to the moon and Det är så hälsosamt och stärkande i fjällen. It was a long time since I laughed that much. The comments from the audience also added some extra touch as we interpreted it all from a crisis management perspective with jokes that maybe only we could understand.
There was also a somewhat funny interlude to the show. The film club had promised some drinks and popcorn. I don’t know exactly what they did when they wanted to pop the popcorn, but all of a sudden the fire alarm went off and there was a terrible stench in our corridor. It seems they had burned the popcorn so badly all three microwave ovens were completely destroyed. As we very rapidly could establish the reason for the alarm and the smell we did not evacuate but continued working. Someone called back to SOS Alarm to inform them about the reason and say they did not have to send the fire brigade. But obviously it was too late or rather they had to come as it was an automatically generated alarm and we all had to evacuate. This was actually a bit embarrassing but also funny. Our office is really right in the centre of Stockholm and it is rather big so when all the people gathered in the street and then of course when the fire brigade came, it caused quite some attention. I can imagine people would find it quite amusing if they knew what happened and who caused it.
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Feeding the Monster
I must be a bit mad or something. Or at least I definitely seem to have a small monster living in my head. Just as things seem to sort out nicely and get in place, I mean work wise and house wise, I start thinking about how nice it would be to work abroad again. The last couple of days I have been thinking a lot about where I would like to go and for how long. I definitely suffer from what in Swedish might be called “någonannanstanslängtan”, the constant longing to be somewhere else. I would really prefer to have a contract over one year, maybe two or three would be ideal. I am not so much into the three to six months contracts that could have been an alternative. I really would like so stay a bit longer in a country, to really get to know some of it, learn about the history, the people, politics and culture in a more in-depth way.
But what do I do then when this monster start calling me to get moving again? Do I tell it to shut up or tell it to crawl away back into some forgotten corner of my mind? No of course not. As the kind and generous host I am to this monster, I feed it. I pick up contact with my friends who live and work abroad and take pleasure in hearing about their life. I read about countries where I have been living and keep reminding myself of what fun I had there and then. I look at the pictures and start thinking about where I would like to go and looking for interesting jobs to apply for. At the same time as I feel so relived not having to constantly look for other jobs and thinking about where to go next, that is what I constantly do. Today I found a job that I would really love and that I have more or less been waiting for, in a country where I would really like to work. But I won’t apply for it!! I will have to stop my self from applying for it. I really have things going for me now and should not make it harder for me.
Stupid monster!! Why can I not just be happy and satisfied being in one place? Other people seem to be.I suppose I will have to make some kind of deal with the monster, as I know it will most probably not just go away. I really plan to stay in Stockholm all of 2009 and I think I would also like to stay at least for the first half of 2010. If I try to get to travel a bit during my holidays and if I continue to feed the monster small portions I hope it will stay reasonably calm and docile.
But what do I do then when this monster start calling me to get moving again? Do I tell it to shut up or tell it to crawl away back into some forgotten corner of my mind? No of course not. As the kind and generous host I am to this monster, I feed it. I pick up contact with my friends who live and work abroad and take pleasure in hearing about their life. I read about countries where I have been living and keep reminding myself of what fun I had there and then. I look at the pictures and start thinking about where I would like to go and looking for interesting jobs to apply for. At the same time as I feel so relived not having to constantly look for other jobs and thinking about where to go next, that is what I constantly do. Today I found a job that I would really love and that I have more or less been waiting for, in a country where I would really like to work. But I won’t apply for it!! I will have to stop my self from applying for it. I really have things going for me now and should not make it harder for me.
Stupid monster!! Why can I not just be happy and satisfied being in one place? Other people seem to be.I suppose I will have to make some kind of deal with the monster, as I know it will most probably not just go away. I really plan to stay in Stockholm all of 2009 and I think I would also like to stay at least for the first half of 2010. If I try to get to travel a bit during my holidays and if I continue to feed the monster small portions I hope it will stay reasonably calm and docile.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
New Office
I must say I am not looking forward to become a commuter. From tomorrow I will be working 45 km from where I am living. There are bus and train connections but not very good ones. We are still a few living in The Small Town so for a start we can travel together by car, but of course it is a bit in convenient that exactly now when I really need the car for the first time, it is not working very well… and anyway it means lost of time and having to get up earlier in the morning. So not my thing!
I don’t really look forward to unpacking and getting used to a new office again, and only for a couple of weeks, either. Buy I guess I will have to think about it not being for very long. I am counting the days.
I don’t really look forward to unpacking and getting used to a new office again, and only for a couple of weeks, either. Buy I guess I will have to think about it not being for very long. I am counting the days.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Stuck
I am stuck in The Small Town this weekend, totally against my will, because I am duty officer this weekend. It really feels like being electronically tagged. After some insistence I managed to get some clear information on how far away from the office I am allowed to go. I found out that in case something would happen that can not be solved over the phone and mobile internet I have to be in the office in less than 90 minutes. I realised that is enough to be able to join my sister and her family to the closest skiing area tomorrow. Great!! I could get out and get some fresh air, sun, skiing and social stimuli. It suddenly all felt quite ok again. Therefore I got quite disappointed when my sister called tonight and told me they had some problems with their car and didn’t feel really comfortable to go for a longer drive before they had the chance to check it up. So skiing is off. And I am stuck in The Small Town again. :-(
Monday, January 12, 2009
Work Worries
After the two first weeks at the new job I am feeling more and more worried. This far I have had absolutely nothing to do and I have no idea what to to. Fortunately I will only work two more days before my holiday, if not I would have gone mad. Ok, if not I would probably make more of an effort to find something to do, but now I wait till after my holiday. What worries me more however, is that everything I learn about the new job gives me the feeling "this is not what I want to do!!" The new job does not interest me at all and I can not see what I could bring to it and how my knowing and experience could be valuable. That makes me really worried. The only reason for me ever to be here was that I had an interesting job, if not it will be absolutely unbearable. I need to get away from here!! Please!! I hope something good will happen soon!!
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
What's new?
So, new year and a new job. Well the new job doesn’t really feel very new yet. I sit in the same office and have some new colleagues, but I have been working with them before, albeit not so closely. I have a new boss and will have completely new work assignments but this far I have hardly met my boss and I really don’t know what I am expected to do. The biggest difference was our new network platform and new e-mail and of course it did not work very well the first day everyone was in office, will see how long it takes. It is quite challenging and energy consuming to reorganise this frequently, but that seems the standard story of public administration.
Apart from this, nothing much has happened. Hence the blog silence. Caught a nasty cold the day before Christmas and spent most of the holiday to recover from that. Managed to get to Frankfurt over New Year though, and that was really nice. I will post some nice Frankfurt photos soon, most probably on the Travel blog.
Something that might be new is my early morning jogging. It was easy to get up and go walking or jogging before breakfast during holiday, when I did not get up until 10 or 11. But can you imagine that this morning I got up at 6 and went out jogging!! But alright, once doesn’t make it a habit, does it?!
Apart from this, nothing much has happened. Hence the blog silence. Caught a nasty cold the day before Christmas and spent most of the holiday to recover from that. Managed to get to Frankfurt over New Year though, and that was really nice. I will post some nice Frankfurt photos soon, most probably on the Travel blog.
Something that might be new is my early morning jogging. It was easy to get up and go walking or jogging before breakfast during holiday, when I did not get up until 10 or 11. But can you imagine that this morning I got up at 6 and went out jogging!! But alright, once doesn’t make it a habit, does it?!
Monday, December 01, 2008
Anti-Climax and a Dilemma
I am still in chock or at least somewhat confused. Today was the day when all of us working in the office on a time limited contract would get to know if we would have a job in january or not. I felt very sure I would not and was prepared for that. Ok, I admit I was not happy about the possibility to be the only one not getting anything and see all the colleagues get new jobs, but still I was prepared for it.
I did not really realise how prepared I was for it until everything changed. I was offered a job. Albeit a job I applied for, but not my first hand choice and I only applied for it as I assumed it would be in Stockholm. Now the job I was offered is in The Next Somewhat Bigger Town!! That basically made my whole world tumble down!!
I might be stupid, maybe mad and for sure a bit crazy, but still I realise I can not turn down an offer of a permanent job in times of financial crises and recession. And I know I should be happy as many of my colleagues did not get a job at all. And this position might develope into something rather interesting and this position is also exists in the Stockholm office and my new boss knows I would prefer to work there and there might be a chance to be transfered in the future and and and.... Yes!! I know I should be happy and grateful, but still I had to go into the restroom and cry several times during the day and I felt like throwing up at times. I was so disappointed!! The only thing that has kept me going for the last couple of months was the prospect of getting out of here. What ever happened I would not be here anymore. Now I am stuck!
Not only stuck! I have to make decisions on where to live. Should I move to The Next Somewhat Bigger Town altough I don't want to live there either and have no plans to stay there very long?? Should I stay here and commute and hope to be transfered to Sthlm as soon as possibel?! But still, it is 45 km to TNSBT, one way, with poor public transport and this job also has on-duty service. I don't know!! And I really don't feel like moving one single time more than neccessary.
I really was so prepared for not getting a job and getting ready to leave and move away from here. I had even started to plan my dinners and my eating so I would not have to buy more food but finish as much as possible of what I already have! And now, here I am!!
I did not really realise how prepared I was for it until everything changed. I was offered a job. Albeit a job I applied for, but not my first hand choice and I only applied for it as I assumed it would be in Stockholm. Now the job I was offered is in The Next Somewhat Bigger Town!! That basically made my whole world tumble down!!
I might be stupid, maybe mad and for sure a bit crazy, but still I realise I can not turn down an offer of a permanent job in times of financial crises and recession. And I know I should be happy as many of my colleagues did not get a job at all. And this position might develope into something rather interesting and this position is also exists in the Stockholm office and my new boss knows I would prefer to work there and there might be a chance to be transfered in the future and and and.... Yes!! I know I should be happy and grateful, but still I had to go into the restroom and cry several times during the day and I felt like throwing up at times. I was so disappointed!! The only thing that has kept me going for the last couple of months was the prospect of getting out of here. What ever happened I would not be here anymore. Now I am stuck!
Not only stuck! I have to make decisions on where to live. Should I move to The Next Somewhat Bigger Town altough I don't want to live there either and have no plans to stay there very long?? Should I stay here and commute and hope to be transfered to Sthlm as soon as possibel?! But still, it is 45 km to TNSBT, one way, with poor public transport and this job also has on-duty service. I don't know!! And I really don't feel like moving one single time more than neccessary.
I really was so prepared for not getting a job and getting ready to leave and move away from here. I had even started to plan my dinners and my eating so I would not have to buy more food but finish as much as possible of what I already have! And now, here I am!!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Back again
Back in The Small Town again. It is amazing, but it only took two weeks away from here for me to almost forget my home address! Yesterday when I took a taxi back from the station and the driver asked me whereto had to think for quite some time! On the other hand I was at that time so tired I could hardly remember my name. The course I have attended was really good. Now I know much more about disaster management, who knows, maybe I now even know much enough to get my own life in order! :-)
The best thing about the course maybe still was the participants. A very nice group of people from a whole range of countries and different fields and backgrounds. Very nice! I do hope at least some of us will manage to stay in touch. At least maybe on Facebook!
Being in An Enven Smaller Place, where there is nothing at all to do except working on the course and being with the participants meant I got quite some sleep in the beginning of the course, went to bed early and slept well. But as the course proceeded and we all got to know each other better there were more things going on in the evenings. Before the grand finale, the closing dinner, I was already sleep deprived and slightly hung over, the day after I was nearly dead. The course finished on Friday and then I went to Stockholm to spend the weekend there with friends, but yesterday I was so tired I just could take no more and voluntarly left to go back to The Small Town earlier than I had to, just to get some proper sleep. Unbeliveably!!
The best thing about the course maybe still was the participants. A very nice group of people from a whole range of countries and different fields and backgrounds. Very nice! I do hope at least some of us will manage to stay in touch. At least maybe on Facebook!
Being in An Enven Smaller Place, where there is nothing at all to do except working on the course and being with the participants meant I got quite some sleep in the beginning of the course, went to bed early and slept well. But as the course proceeded and we all got to know each other better there were more things going on in the evenings. Before the grand finale, the closing dinner, I was already sleep deprived and slightly hung over, the day after I was nearly dead. The course finished on Friday and then I went to Stockholm to spend the weekend there with friends, but yesterday I was so tired I just could take no more and voluntarly left to go back to The Small Town earlier than I had to, just to get some proper sleep. Unbeliveably!!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
In An Even Smaller Place
Belive it or not, but I will be spending the rest of this week and the next in a place even smaller than The Small Town, significantly smaller, but I am looking forward to it!!
I am taking part in a training and really look forward to totally focus on one thing for such a long time and in the evenings there will be nothing else to do than to work a little, exercise and then sleep and relax. Lovely! Ok, you might ask; what is the difference to life in The Small Town? The difference is that that is supposed to be a life, this is only for ten days and that is it!!
It is also very nice to be out of the office at the moment as there is not a very pleasant atmosphere there right now. I only whished I had had the time to send a couple of applications before I came here, then I could have tried to think of something else for a change.
I am taking part in a training and really look forward to totally focus on one thing for such a long time and in the evenings there will be nothing else to do than to work a little, exercise and then sleep and relax. Lovely! Ok, you might ask; what is the difference to life in The Small Town? The difference is that that is supposed to be a life, this is only for ten days and that is it!!
It is also very nice to be out of the office at the moment as there is not a very pleasant atmosphere there right now. I only whished I had had the time to send a couple of applications before I came here, then I could have tried to think of something else for a change.
Monday, November 03, 2008
The Ulitmate Question
I think I might have found the ultimate question for an employment interview.
If I was to interview someone that I might employ I would ask if that person had a pet as a child (or have one now, maybe). If he or she had, I would ask what kind of pet and for how long he/she had the pet. I think that might be the ultimate question to find out how responsible someone is.
I have realised that some people, in their profession, treat work assignments as pets. Some collects them and take on more than they can handle. Some like them when they are small and cute, but can not really envisage that it needs to be fed every day and that the litter box won’t empty itself or that it might grow and stay around for a long time and when they realise that, they just let someone else take over and they have found a new hobby…
I would not like people like that working for me. And I am quite fed up working with that kind of people.
If I was to interview someone that I might employ I would ask if that person had a pet as a child (or have one now, maybe). If he or she had, I would ask what kind of pet and for how long he/she had the pet. I think that might be the ultimate question to find out how responsible someone is.
I have realised that some people, in their profession, treat work assignments as pets. Some collects them and take on more than they can handle. Some like them when they are small and cute, but can not really envisage that it needs to be fed every day and that the litter box won’t empty itself or that it might grow and stay around for a long time and when they realise that, they just let someone else take over and they have found a new hobby…
I would not like people like that working for me. And I am quite fed up working with that kind of people.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Application frustration
Today I have been trying to work on writing applications, but it is sooo frustrating and I absolutely utterly hate writing applications!! And if it wasn't bad enough, most of the employers I would like to apply for seem to use standardised web-based application forms. And that I hate more than anything!! It is so frustrating trying to force my somewhat chaotic and out-of-the-box-life into the standard form. It just doesn't work! And you can be pretty sure that the web-page will crash at least a couple of times while you are doing it and if you are really cursed the page can not be saved but filled in all at once, meaning you will have to start all over when it crashes. Sometimes you can not browse ahead to see what information is required. Meaning you will have to start filling it out step by step and then all of a sudden you come to a question like the exact date when you graduated high school, something noone normally is interested in. While you try to sort that out (or just invent a plausible date) you can be pretty sure the webpage will shut down and you have to start all over again.
I also can't help wondering if anyone ever got a job by applying through one of those web-forms. I for sure haven't. I believe it is just a way to get rid of some applicants. Therefore it is mostly used by employers who get a lot of applicants and this is a way to ger rid of many before they even manage to finish their applications. To the ones that manage the system sends an automatic reply and then they employ someone the already know...
Ahhh, that is one more reason why I hate to apply for these jobs, it seems so pointless! Please anyone!! Give me an interesting, qualified, well paid job that I don't have to apply for!!! :-)
I also can't help wondering if anyone ever got a job by applying through one of those web-forms. I for sure haven't. I believe it is just a way to get rid of some applicants. Therefore it is mostly used by employers who get a lot of applicants and this is a way to ger rid of many before they even manage to finish their applications. To the ones that manage the system sends an automatic reply and then they employ someone the already know...
Ahhh, that is one more reason why I hate to apply for these jobs, it seems so pointless! Please anyone!! Give me an interesting, qualified, well paid job that I don't have to apply for!!! :-)
In Between Days...
I have just realised I might find myself in a situation where I have neither job nor housing in January and February! Is this a sign of me being a bit unresponsible?? I don't know.
Nevertheless, that means I am very available for new things. I'd love a period abroad again, preferably in a warm climate;-). So, anyone who knows about a posting or a job for that period of time; don't hesitate but please let me know about it.
Nevertheless, that means I am very available for new things. I'd love a period abroad again, preferably in a warm climate;-). So, anyone who knows about a posting or a job for that period of time; don't hesitate but please let me know about it.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Glad to have no Economy
Just a short notice to let you know that I am still alive. Just haven't really felt like blogging for a while. A lot of work and lot of other things to sort out kind of drain my energy right now.
Sometimes things that are happening in the world can be food for blogging, but right now it is all about the world financial crisis and I find it hard to think about anything less inspiring. It is depressing, uninteresting and by now rather boring. I guess I should not complain though, for once you can be happy not to even have an economy. I feel very unaffected by the whole circus, I am not losing all my savings as I don't have any and I am not losing my home due to increasing interest rates as I never owned any, so things are pretty cool. I might not have a job after December, which of course might not be such a great thing in a recession, but things tend to work out somehow.
Well, maybe I am playing it a littler cooler that I actually feel, but more about that later...
Sometimes things that are happening in the world can be food for blogging, but right now it is all about the world financial crisis and I find it hard to think about anything less inspiring. It is depressing, uninteresting and by now rather boring. I guess I should not complain though, for once you can be happy not to even have an economy. I feel very unaffected by the whole circus, I am not losing all my savings as I don't have any and I am not losing my home due to increasing interest rates as I never owned any, so things are pretty cool. I might not have a job after December, which of course might not be such a great thing in a recession, but things tend to work out somehow.
Well, maybe I am playing it a littler cooler that I actually feel, but more about that later...
Monday, August 18, 2008
Autumn and Champagne?!
It is amazing how fast the summer ended! Ok, I am normally the one who strongly stress that at least August is also a summer-month, but this year the weather changed so quickly that it almost already feels like autumn. Very depressing!!
I had a lovely holiday but it did not take long back at work for me to realise how very much I hate the place I have to live in. It is really bad! I have lived in many places and felt quite well everywhere, but here it just does not work! I have never hated a place this much. Or I don’t think I ever hated a place at all before. Unfortunately that makes it also harder to like my job although that is actually quite good.
So this autumn will basically be about getting out of here. First of all that of course means finding another job and another place to live. All suggestions and tips are welcome! But I also have another plan, to make things a little easier to deal with. I have decided that for every month, starting from now in August, that I have to live here, I will buy a bottle of champagne that I then will drink when celebrating my move from here. That is a true win-win-deal! If I move earlier I don’t get much champagne but I do get out of here sooner. If I have to stay longer than I would like to; I get more champagne! Good eh?
I had a lovely holiday but it did not take long back at work for me to realise how very much I hate the place I have to live in. It is really bad! I have lived in many places and felt quite well everywhere, but here it just does not work! I have never hated a place this much. Or I don’t think I ever hated a place at all before. Unfortunately that makes it also harder to like my job although that is actually quite good.
So this autumn will basically be about getting out of here. First of all that of course means finding another job and another place to live. All suggestions and tips are welcome! But I also have another plan, to make things a little easier to deal with. I have decided that for every month, starting from now in August, that I have to live here, I will buy a bottle of champagne that I then will drink when celebrating my move from here. That is a true win-win-deal! If I move earlier I don’t get much champagne but I do get out of here sooner. If I have to stay longer than I would like to; I get more champagne! Good eh?
Monday, August 11, 2008
Back in office
It is amazing but it only took one single day back in the office to make me feel as if I had no holiday at all! After only one day I already feel tired, frustrated and irritated. Not good!! Of course it could also partly be because I did not get much sleep last night. Because of a delayed flight, that was already late, a missed airport bus and other things I barely got three hours of sleep. Therefore I was considering take the day off. In the end I did not, I just came a little late and wanted to make a soft start by leaving early. That did not work out at all! There was hardly anyone in the office but a very big and urgent caseload, so no soft start there!!
However, I will really try not to get back into the very negatively stressed feeling I have been having for quite some time at work. I will try to hang on to the good and creative feeling that at least was starting to build up the last days of my holiday, although I think I would honestly have needed at least one more week off to really get there. I will try to focus on what I like to do at work and what I am really good at (except spending money!) and what can me further and were I can achieve results. I will also try not to work very late everyday; there are other things to do too. First I will try to get some time to download the photos from this holiday, here or at picasa or facebook, so others can see them too, maybe I will also try to write something about my holiday and my travels here on the blog… and on my other blog, but that will have to be another day, now I really have to sleep to catch up for last night. Good night!
However, I will really try not to get back into the very negatively stressed feeling I have been having for quite some time at work. I will try to hang on to the good and creative feeling that at least was starting to build up the last days of my holiday, although I think I would honestly have needed at least one more week off to really get there. I will try to focus on what I like to do at work and what I am really good at (except spending money!) and what can me further and were I can achieve results. I will also try not to work very late everyday; there are other things to do too. First I will try to get some time to download the photos from this holiday, here or at picasa or facebook, so others can see them too, maybe I will also try to write something about my holiday and my travels here on the blog… and on my other blog, but that will have to be another day, now I really have to sleep to catch up for last night. Good night!
Back in office
It is amazing but it only took one single day back in the office to make me feel as if I had no holiday at all! After only one day I already feel tired, frustrated and irritated. Not good!! Of course it could also partly be because I did not get much sleep last night. Because of a delayed flight, that was already late, a missed airport bus and other things I barely got three hours of sleep. Therefore I was considering take the day off. In the end I did not, I just came a little late and wanted to make a soft start by leaving early. That did not work out at all! There was hardly anyone in the office but a very big and urgent caseload, so no soft start there!!
However, I will really try not to get back into the very negatively stressed feeling I have been having for quite some time at work. I will try to hang on to the good and creative feeling that at least was starting to build up the last days of my holiday, although I think I would honestly have needed at least one more week off to really get there. I will try to focus on what I like to do at work and what I am really good at (except spending money!) and what can me further and were I can achieve results. I will also try not to work very late everyday; there are other things to do too. First I will try to get some time to download the photos from this holiday, here or at picasa or facebook, so others can see them too, maybe I will also try to write something about my holiday and my travels here on the blog… but that will have to be another day, now I really have to sleep to catch up for last night. Good night!
However, I will really try not to get back into the very negatively stressed feeling I have been having for quite some time at work. I will try to hang on to the good and creative feeling that at least was starting to build up the last days of my holiday, although I think I would honestly have needed at least one more week off to really get there. I will try to focus on what I like to do at work and what I am really good at (except spending money!) and what can me further and were I can achieve results. I will also try not to work very late everyday; there are other things to do too. First I will try to get some time to download the photos from this holiday, here or at picasa or facebook, so others can see them too, maybe I will also try to write something about my holiday and my travels here on the blog… but that will have to be another day, now I really have to sleep to catch up for last night. Good night!
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