Keep calm and carry on....

coldcazzie · 5 October 2020 at 11:47AM

You'll all be thrilled to know I have created 3 ebay listings this morning! I set myself a challenge a few days ago to list one item a day in October, which I then immediately forgot about haha, so I've caught up with myself today. If you fancy joining me in my challenge let me know in my diary!

perhaps we can all keep each other accountable.

South_coast · 5 October 2020 at 12:08PM

Too late, I have already mentally shelved eBay day 🤣! I'm so not interested in doing eBay that I am actually eyeing up stripping the rest of the wallpaper from my hall (only been half-done since, er, April last year 😮!) I am hereby committing to have done either one or the other of these by the end of the week!

I've just been invited to a second interview, but as a) it involves preparing a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation, and b) I really don't fancy the job anyway (the prep I did for the first interview reinforced this I think!), I think I need to politely decline 😐

I am actually finally starting to feel unemployed, rather than just like I'm on holiday which is how it's felt up until now. On the plus side, it means I can go to Lidl in the middle of the day and discover they have bags of kale reduced to 20p 😋 I bought two (and the freezers are now full again)!

South_coast · 5 October 2020 at 12:11PM

coldcazzie said:

You'll all be thrilled to know I have created 3 ebay listings this morning! I set myself a challenge a few days ago to list one item a day in October, which I then immediately forgot about haha, so I've caught up with myself today.

Er, I hate to break it to you Caz, but it's the 5th today so you're still behind 🤣!

QueenJess · 6 October 2020 at 9:58AM

South_coast said:

Too late, I have already mentally shelved eBay day 🤣! I'm so not interested in doing eBay that I am actually eyeing up stripping the rest of the wallpaper from my hall (only been half-done since, er, April last year 😮!) I am hereby committing to have done either one or the other of these by the end of the week!

Lol... me neither. I managed to list zero items in about the last 4 weeks! Maybe later... (yeah right!)

South_coast · 6 October 2020 at 12:18PM

I have officially abandoned Project eBay and Project Hallway, as I have found some work 😀 The money is terrible (it's not really, it's just a lot less than I was on before), the hours are terrible (8.00am start!) and the commute is terrible, but it's work and it will pay my bills and more and stop me living off savings every month. It's also in the field I want to be in and the job title I want, so all good 😀 I have celebrated by booking a haircut (finally!) and ordering a mattress topper (and updating my car insurance 🤣!)

I start next week, so I'm setting the to-do list aside and concentrating on getting prepped for working again and actually going into an office. Next step, ordering new work clothes, seeing as Project Weight Loss never really got off the ground 😮!

themadvix · 6 October 2020 at 12:22PM

Congratulations SC! 🥳 It may not be perfect, but it sounds like it’s a step (or syrup, according to autocorrect) in the right direction career wise and as you say, it pays the bills! Wonderful news!