Interview went ok. They did catch me off guard with a couple of questions. But fingers crossed for a positive result!
I got another call from a recruiter for a government contract job that pays literally double what I was making before. So that's a good backup.
Do you know when they will get back to you?
What’s the government job looking like? More work or more advanced skill set required?
Hopefully tomorrow at the latest. It would greatly grow my skillset and career in general.
Government job is actually easier, but contract is only 6 months. Wouldn't be learning anything new, but pay is remarkable.
So pros and cons to each.
Ah ok.
Hope you hear back from them soon.
A 6 month contract seems risky if they don’t sign you on for more time or extend it even if the pay is great and also as you’ve said it doesn’t offer you any growth as well.
Oh absolutely but it's just under a years salary after tax, but in 6 months. Hard to resist. But definitely would rather the stability with a normal role.
Today is the first day in over 3 weeks I've had any time to myself. Not even 10 minutes to myself. I don't regard a walk in a crowded park as having time to myself.
I'm fucking exhausted and emotional.
Did I just spend over 5 solid hours in the same position on the couch trying to solve a question on a Stack Exchange website? (for a grand total of 2 internet points because most of the userbase isn't online at this time)
...really better go and have a walk now geez.
Nonsense drama on my street today. Tomorrow is bin day, some residents have rolled out their green waste bin, whilst others (myself included as it's the correct one) rolled out the recycling bin.
One neighbour asked me how I knew (checked the council website to verify) and quickly corrected his mistake.
The neighbour that had a blue with his missus rolled out his green one and gave me a very patronizing smirk.
When my bin gets emptied I'm going to wait until he's outside to roll mine in. Debating whether to blow him a kiss or just wave enthusiastically.
Hahahaha I'm laughing at the thought of you smugly blowing a kiss. What a fucking wanker.
I wondering what the person who asked how you knew thinks the system is. I am imaging them asking with bewilderment, how do you know which bin it is?!? Maybe they think it’s random each week and you are a magician who can see the future.
They're the type that would go to the council office and ask instead of checking online.
It was passed down in the lore... only to those who would listen to the Elders...
I have arrived in Albury pretty glad to have decided to break up the drive. I could have pushed through but it would have been rough near the end I suspect.
Lovely day here too! I was expecting rain but found sunshine.
Yeah you missed all the fun on Sunday and Monday - driving down the Hume in Vic would've been an absolute blast those two days. Now it's back to being boring!
I don't wanna go to work today. ☹️ Is anyone able to go in and impersonate me for a day instead? Can pay in zucchini.
I was still following the previous zucchini negotiators and thought this was advising hiring zucchini body doubles, or possibly human body doubles and training them in the ways of zucchini
Perhaps I could train the zucchinis to be body doubles for cucumbers? I have many zucchinis but the cucumbers failed to grow entirely, so this could solve my problem.
Train them? That would take way too long, I was hoping for someone really good at bluffing and bullshit. The type that have absolutely no idea how to do their job but somehow seem to get through the day without anyone noticing.
That is a lot of zucchinis. I might need to pay in installments. Would you accept a payment plan of 5 zucchinis a week over the summer period for the next 283 years?
As you did not attend at 6am this morning as required under the terms of the contract I have instead instead gone to work and impersonated myself.
I got the date wrong and ended up in 1024... It smelled really bad. Bloody typos.
Did you mess up the location too? I would have expected Australia to mostly smell of eucalyptus and smoke at that timeframe.
In any case I will provide 1 zucchini in appreciation for your efforts 🥒 (I have been training them to impersonate cucumbers, hope that's ok)
Fabulous, consider it a deal. Now I just need you to travel back in time ready to start my shift at 6am.
I've been awake since like 2:30am and can't get back to sleep.. but the plus side of that is that I got to see the underside of the Sydney Harbour Bridge about 25 minutes ago. Pretty keen to get off the ship and on the road apparently. I'm glad I went to bed relatively early!
Still won't be able to disembark for 2 hours due to the customs staff not being at the terminal until 6:30am.. which is ok because the car hire place doesn't open until 7:30am.
Hurry up, time!
Was the 4th off the ship and I booked my Uber from the gangway like a boss so my car was ready for me as soon as I walked out. Beat the surge pricing hell yeeeeahhh!
Although I am at the rental car place 35 minutes before they open.
Have a safe drive back mate, don't push it too hard on low sleep - there's still some rain hanging around Goulburn heading east, hopefully it clears up by the time you hit the frog and toad.
I found that rain! Got through it no worries though. Just at Yass now.
Work has been busy from the get go this year. Isn't the first week back in January supposed to be cruisey?
I've got a meeting for a new contractor position on Thursday where the $$ earning potential is very good so fingers crossed that goes well. I've got another business on the hook that wants to sign me up as well. Between them, I think I could make a decent enough living (with the added flexibility) so I can escape my hellhole workplace ASAP. This is the place that asked me to voluntarily leave last year. Coming back to it in the new year has been rougher than expected. I'm not invested in this job at all anymore, and faking/forcing it while waiting for the perfect role is super exhausting. I need out.
This is my latest creation. I call it The Nest
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A creme caramel centre with vanilla icecream and ice magic. So good. So bad. But so really good.
It's very naughty but if ya gonna do it, go big I say. It's out of my system now.
Why do cows eat grass?
For the moo-trients.
It's dumb, but my God does that make me giggle.
Thank you!! I stood straight up and told that to my boss, who just shook his head at me while I sat back down and giggled for a bit.
Thought I'd give the housemate a break from making my meals since I still can't touch any shared spaces, so I ordered some lunch with enough leftovers for tea and jesus fkn christ it's highway robbery out there.
We found a Thai joint on the weekend that was ridiculously cheap. Like pre-covid cheap. 4 mains, 1 entree, 1 large coconut rice...under $75 (take away)
I saw their website pricing and had to call to make sure it wasn't an old site.
Can't leave us hanging like that.
Here's the only asian place near me down here on the bellarine.
Peak season nosebleed pricing.
https://nivanaclub.com/menus/
Here you go
http://www.carolinethai.com.au/take-away-menus/
For anyone in the area, the food isn't 100% authentic, but pretty solid IMO
Worth noting, their dine-in menu is more expensive
Are we sharing Thai menus because here's ours and he is legit Thai.
https://www.padthaimelton.com.au/menu
Prices on par with local joints too. I just like the Springs one cause it's so much cheaper when doing takeaway. Probably wouldn't pay their dine-in prices, as we have some better options.
The funny thing is no one comes to Melton for their food except for this guy. Hahaha.
I love how CS has Gotham Doughnuts now. Very dangerous.
The amount of 'bad' food joints (albeit delicious) in CS is getting out of hand.
A few decent Indian places too
They fill up the standard container. Kids had pad-thai and had leftover. I had curry, and maybe I would have likes a bit more protein, it filled me up. Wife had a stir fry with seafood, and there was a surprising amount of prawns (froze sure, but still).
The pricing is pretty cheap, even I’d give it a shot if I was down that way.
What else is exciting, intriguing or moving you right now?
Any personal projects you're planning, have started or recently completed?
Anything new or interesting that scouts the boundaries of the depth and breadth of the human experience?
Or just been noticing the weather?
Ill be entering a couple of bottles of my mead into the Redhill Mead Competition in February which is very exciting, We have been brewing for around 9 months now :)
Im also signed up for a nervous system course in Feb/March which im looking forward to
My favourite dress seems to have been discontinued. I must have worn to bits at least twenty of these over the years, it’s damn near my uniform. Now the horrors of finding something new and dressing room mirrors 😾
If you can sew maybe you can use an old dress to cut a pattern for a new one.
I’ve already got some similar patterns but have put off attempting them. Size grading and all that fuss. Boobs are inconvenient.
Hate that so much. I feel you on the uniform.
I don’t know what the budget is but perhaps a tailor could recreate it in different colours?
There’s always finding a similar pattern but the same fit isn’t guaranteed. Recreating it yourself is possible too but could require taking it apart.
I’ve tried the ways of making a pattern without unpicking the garment but had issues not distorting the pieces which screwed with the shape of the armholes.
Sewing is a skill and can be a bit of an undertaking :(
Isn’t it funny that over the break I slept fantastically. Solid every night, just about never needing to get up for the toilet, etc, but back to work and I’m awake at 4am musing over the stupidest things – not even always work related! Very frustrating.
You slept?! Lucky. I went to bed at 11, think I fell asleep like 3am? feel like death warmed up.
Oh noes! I hope you get a bit of rest today and a better sleep tonight!
So frustrating! Especially when the kitty realises you're restless, so he comes in for love and cuddles (but really wants you to get up feed him), but you try to remove him from the bed and end up with kitty claw embedded in your thigh, which causes you to shout out and wake up the dog who then decides he needs to go out to pee and then do his senior stompy zoomies around the house...
