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Butti

niccatw wrote: »

Cross post this morning! SSorry - wasn't being rude.

Came home to water coming through the ceiling. there's not enough water puring through. And apparently, even if it starts to pour, it wouldn't be an emergency over the weekend and I'm likely to have to wait. Surely that can't be right???

Butti, you know about htese thing? Is you Glasgow job application with GHA or One Management????

And I can't help but be a little paranoid that it might be to do with the gas! Though it can't be as it's coming through the ceiling in the hall. But there's no pipes nearby so I dread to think where it's wound it's way from.

If it's not pouring through you will probably be alright. Could be from the bathroom or something? Is it anywhere near where the gas man was working this morning? Is there a neighbourhood office or something? I know it's worrying, it was when it came through my ceiling. I put a bucket underneath for the weekend.

Four days is a way you could do that job and start yourself up in consultancy. Build without pulling the rug out immediatly.

Start the application form. If you finish it you care enough to finish it, if you don't you don't. That's usually the way I work.

...and someone once told me a Chinese Proverb 'It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backwards'.

B x

niccatw

Morning!

No, it's no where near where the gas man was working - though the gas meter and electricity meter are close. :eek:

I was working last night and this morning it appears to have stopped dripping as much - but I can see the yellowy damp patches above the front door and wall. All I can think is that, when they have been clearing the flat upstairs, they have knocked the radiator off the wall or something because it's not near the bathroom or kitchen. Ho hum! (Note: my flat-mate is a panicker! He was outraged that they wouldn't come out and kept telling me every five minutes he was really concerned about it. Concerned enough that he texted me at 6pm yesterday though he said it had steadily been dripping through all afternoon! Might have got them out if he'd called me earlier. He couldn't call himself because the phone mumber isn't free!) Flat mate just came through to say it seems to have stopped dripping about 6am.

Anyhoo...

Butti, the person who told you that Chinese proverb must have been a genius! :rotfl:

I already started the application - albeit the easy bits; what's my name? Where do I live? The worst that can happen is I don't get it. But if I don't apply, I'll always wonder if it might have been a good idea. And I can't help but see the words "Must find another job. Must find another job. Must find another job." repeated on my earlier post.

My main concerns, if I was offered it, are
1. The commute - and the extra cost in deisel (and how I get myself out of a three year lease car one year in!).
2. The money (though I was earning 8k less a year at the time I bought my flat and my debt was much higher then, so I really shouldn't worry about that.) Possibly it's more that my maths is so bad, I can't figure out what my salary actually would be!
3. That it'd knock the VSO application on it's head for a while.

I can rule out 2 as a major concern and see it more as a niggle.
3 can probably be worked around.
So that leaves the commute and it's cost as the major concern. But I curently live 5 minutes away from my work base so any new job will have that dilemma.

I also don't have a couple of the "essential" criteria they are asking for, though I can talk my way around that as I don't feel it can be that essential, if in 7 years of working in the field, I've survived without it. Assuming the application makes it past HR though.

It's frosty and cold here. Probably a nice day for a brisk walk! Hmmm... or I could curl up with my sticky toffeee pudding flavoured tea!

Butti

On the positive when my pipe leaked from the bathroom it took about a month to identify it was happening by which time the whole ceiling was in danger of coming down.

Because I had house insurance they came out, repaired a section of the ceiling, then had to skim the whole ceiling so I lost my lovely 1970's swirly artexing, paint the ceiling and replace the very patterned wallpaper which ran through the living room, up the stairs and around the landing with randon pattern embossed paper (wall surface rubbish so had to have patterned paper)and then paint it. Infact one of the decorators, not realising I was in the house said to his mate 'What, we have to decorate the whole room AND up the stairs'.

Cost me £100 excess and in retrospect was one of the best things that ever happened to me, because the two families in before me liked things OVERSTATED a touch.

They had these fake greek things on the living room wall when I moved in, which were about the first thing to go, with the fake leading on the windows.

So grit your teeth, put ear plugs in if the flatmate is irritating you too much and practice your meditation. Provided Chicken Licken wasn't right for this weekend you will be okay.

B x

niccatw

Bleurgh! Man flu alert. Catarrh sending me potty. Any old wives' tales remedies gratefully received! (Have a netti pot.)

RBS sitting at £1,269.34. £53 heading towards it as we speak. I can't quite believe it's nearly under 1k! I got really confused when I checked the balance as I thought I'd forgotten to transfer my pay over to my bills account. That was a minor panic!

I thought I'd have a wee look on the RBS website to see what happens when it's the last few payments though. Because it was a loan over a set amount of time, I suspect they'll keep taking the scheduled payments unless I ask for a "settlement" figure, which I think I have to put in writing to them.

Ugh. I can't believe they ask you to talk to their "relationship manager". Seriously? You just know they're going to give the hard sell about some nonsense I don't want. No RBS. No. I have been wanting rid of you for more years that I care to remember!

Right, been faffing all night, need to brave my bedroom - it's a tip and I need to make the bed before I get in it. (Or maybe I'll just have cookie and hot chocolate... )

niccatw

niccatw wrote: »

So quick update on the totals:
And another... not that I'm obsessed or anything

RBS: [STRIKE]1,680.41[/STRIKE] 1,255.40
N Rock: [STRIKE]2,262.65[/STRIKE] 1,634.09
HFC: [STRIKE]1,083.40[/STRIKE] 1,083.40
SLC1: [STRIKE]579.60[/STRIKE] 463.52
SLC2: [STRIKE]2,144.00[/STRIKE] 2,030.71
Others: [STRIKE]2,035.00[/STRIKE] 2,035.00
Barclaycard:[STRIKE]1,547.60[/STRIKE]1,472.60

Current total: [STRIKE]11,332.66[/STRIKE] 9,974.72

I'm confident that will be under 10k by the new year. Indeed, it might well be already if I just remembered to call NRAM and HFC when they were actually open to get current updates! (Ok, so that is perhaps an exaggeration! But at least under 11k :cool:)

Yay! It is already! Patience Nicca, patience. You are getting there...

I sent off the application. Generally I completely trust my intuition on these things and go with my gut feeling...

So there's a bit of me saying it can't be a co-incidence that I happened to look on that particular recruitment site on that particular day to see that particular job...

Then there's the me being me bit; the application form was late in email format, probably late in hard copy format and almost minus it's first page! And almost minus bosses address (which is missing in email format)...

So, as my head is torn between the pros and the cons, so my actions are! I haven't managed to speak to any-one in the department either as I've had two "development" days this week and a team meeting. How to render you brain dead in one (or two) fell swoop(s)! Should I get to interview stage, my list of questions is perhaps as long as theirs!

Still feeling yukky. It's because I need a holiday! I have finally persuaded friend that The Gambia, whilst a fab thoguht, is not realistic for a week's holiday in the sun. I think she's agreed we should just turn up at the travel agents at the beginning of January and see what's available for peanuts. I cannot wait!

Tonight though I shall just dream of them!

PS What are people's thoughts on capers? The ones you eat (other capers are grand; we should all have more of them!) But actual capers... I had them in my dinner tonight and I'm puzzled and not convinved!

Night all. Have a lovely weekend.

MatyMoo

:T:T:T Debt figures are looky fan flipping tactic Missy Nicca :T:T:T

Glad you put in the job application, fingers crossed they realise how fantastic you are and only interview the one person for the position, namely you!

Capers are OK in something, they give it a definite tang. Not sure I would eat the on their own or as the main ingredient. What did you try them with? Lots of people don't realise that they are in tartar sauce.

niccatw

Huh, no, I never knew they were in tartar sauce! I probably wouldn't have bought them had I known because I don't like tartar sauce. I had them in a veggie concoction with bulgar wheat and falafels in pitta.

I'm a bit of an ad hoc cook, not really having a clue what goes with what. I can only imagine the horror should I be daft enough to put myself forward for a Come DIne with Me type programme! :rotfl:

Even if they don't progress the application further, it's been good to take a look at what I'm currently doing and at being made to sell myself. I know it's something that doesn't come naturally to most people, but is soemthing I would need to be able to do if I have any chance of building up any kind of successful private work!

MrsMoo2U

Well done on the application (even with the lateness etc). It is a good way to start putting your brain into gear for moving forward, even if you don't get the job. I recently read that in order to get to where you want to be you have be totally in the present and make the present the best that it can be. Taking every opportunity that presents itself. I also read that to get a job you love you have to love the job you have as it shows. Hmmmm I will choose to ignore that one. Although I do think it was trying to say .......... get on with it and get yourself sorted.

niccatw

You are right MrsMoo. There were so many things that could have stopped me even filling out the application. But I knew I couldn't miss that opportunity. Had I done so, I would always have wondered what if.

As for "to get the job you love, you need to love the job you have"... it's really down to the interpretation of that, isn't it? I am very passionate about aspects of my job and certainly the client group I work with. It's the inertia, politics and low moral that drag me down.

So I guess we all need to harnass the aspects of our jobs we love or loved and take them with us wherever we go next.

Crikey... we could write a self help book here! :rotfl: ( Just remember to do as I say and not do as I do!)

Today I need to continue to sort out the chaos that is my flat (actually, my bedroom - that's where I fling the chaos when I'm sorting out the rest of it) and have it so there's no excuse - tomorrow I want to get up early and go and wander in the country-side. There's a really easy bit of the West Highland Way that it's safe for you to do on your own, where you can walk up to the top point of Loch Lomand - and then you just tend to stare out over the veiw in awe! That's my aim for tomorrow. I'd do it today, but I know by the time I get there, it'll be too dark.

MrsMoo2U

As for "to get the job you love, you need to love the job you have"... it's really down to the interpretation of that, isn't it? I am very passionate about aspects of my job and certainly the client group I work with. It's the inertia, politics and low moral that drag me down.

I could have written that. I do actually love the work that I do, its all madness that surrounds it that drives me potty.

I feel slightly envious of the trip to Loch Lomond, it is my most favourite place that I have ever visited. As for standing and staring in awe................ is there any other way to stand at Loch Lomond? Enjoy it and take some piccies to share if possible.