Daffy's 'a nice cup of tea cheers you up' diary

Cheery_Daff

'new job' :rotfl: is £8.60 an hour - the existing casual one is £10.86, but the new one is more likely to be something I can do outside normal work hours.

I think I'm just trying to justify saying yes to it when I already have this one! But actually I never did want to work full time doing one thing for a long time, I just said yes to this job because I was offered it, and I love working there, and it's a fixed term contract. So anything that keeps me in a position where I can have a bit of a patchwork existence again later suits me fine! :j :j

(and of course there's all the stuff about library access And I don't think I'm depriving anyone else of a job??)

Absolutely no idea why they've suddenly written to me now though?! Unless the letter was meant for someone else??

vl2588

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

...the plan is to find a stable door, we've got a friend who'll fit it, and pay another friend to make us a little stained glass panel to go in the middle

*swoon*

Lovely idea and very palatial

Karmacat

Cheery, excellent news all round - the palatial door, the first day at work, the brilliant email policy (I love that EOM thing!) and the job offer. Of course you should keep your spoke in at the casual job place - how can you possibly be depriving anybody of anything? And you're as entitled as anyone else to what work is going, of course you are!

And library access is nothing to sniff at

redsquirrel80

That's great news about the other new job - maybe jobs attract each other! Definitely a good idea to keep a couple of doors open for the future.

And library access is a very good thing

EssexHebridean

Jobs are like buses then....two come along at once!

Certainly the right decision re the casual job - always pays to keep options open - maybe try to say yes to 50% of what you're offered with that, to show willing, or perhaps as and when you do one designate anything earnt to go into a "pure indulgence" account so that when you think "Ooh! I'd really like a....!" you have the money there for it?

Well done you!

Cheery_Daff

Excellent idea EH :T :T

Busy busy - and met a colleague on the bus this morning who was coming to work in wellies!! :j :j Blue with pink flowers on And she lives in the same town as the job, and comes in on the bus!! So definitely justification for me to wear wellies since I walk 45 mins to train, then 45 mins from train, then the same again in the evening

So that's it - slightest bit of rain, wellies to work :rotfl: Must remember to bring other shoes for when I get here!

Must crack on, busy busy here...

Karmacat

Your wellies must fit *very* well if you can manage to walk 45 mins in them! More power to your elbow, Cheery.

Have a good un today.
xx

lotti379

Of course you can wear wellies to work! Only sensible choice in bad weather. You wouldn't want to go ruining your shoes now would you? That wouldn't be very moneysaving... :rotfl

Good news all round! Defo the right choice about the casual job, it is very reassuring to think there is something else in the pipeline, even if you love what you do/don't intend to take it up straightaway
(for example, my former employer keeps trying to persuade me to come back and work for her for a bit again, it's just country pub bar work but I love it there AND it is incredibly reassuring to know I will have a job come September... it just might not be relevant to the MSc!)

Cheery_Daff

Well, Lotti, you just never know what turns out to be relevant - I worked for 3 years doing a job that had absolutely nothing to do with my phd, wasn't relevant at all, and you could have described the actual work as pretty menial. However, all the things I learned there, combined with the soon-to-be-phd actually got me this job, which I NEVER could have foreseen :j :j :j

Feeling a little sorry for myself today ache all over, can't concentrate, everything seems too hard My diagnosis is that, having had almost 4 weeks off work, it's just TOO HARD to come back and spend all day sitting in a chair staring at a computer screen! :rotfl:

Goodness knows how I'll manage doing it for the entire week, then another week, then another one! :eek:

(wouldn't be too bad if I wasn't PhD-ing on the train in both directions, and when I get home - yawn!) Nearly there

I'm trying little things here and there to conserve my energy levels So I'm getting the slightly later train in, and the earlier one home - means I'm losing half an hour of work a day, but also means I can leave home at 7am and get home just before 7pm. I'm working at home Thurs and Fri (so can make up a bit of time), and also only coming into the office 2 days next week. I'm going to take the car to booze club tonight - idle, but it'll save me half an hour walk (I will have already walked 1.5 hours today!). Have also bribed Mr daffs to run me a bath ready for when I get back from booze club :rotfl:

Little things, but like little bits of money, it also adds up

EssexHebridean

Those sorts of long days will take their toll on you at first Daffs, until your body adjusts. Combine that with heading back to work after a long break and I think it's no surprise you're feeling jaded. If there a bus you can get intstead of the walk from the station one way or the other? Maybe do that tonight or tomorrow as otherwise, come the weekend, you're just going to collapse!