Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

Cheery_Daff

Maybe they figure you're more likely to buy tea and coffee as well - whereas if they give you a free tea it's very very unlikely you'll buy an additional bottle of wine 😂

Slumber spray and a massage sounds like a good deal! I suspect one of us will just take the wine home 😂

Cheery_Daff

I finally logged into Mr T to check my points total yesterday - £11.50 in vouchers, plus 215 points. I don't build them up quickly, and I don't think I've ever used my vouchers, even in a shop 😬 

Anyway, I think I might use them for a 3 month subscription to a TV service to watch a programme that's starting again soon 😁 Paid for it for a few months earlier in the year and watched all the other seasons, and then cancelled it. This should get me enough to watch most of the new season (or all of it, if I don't start it for a few weeks then catch up with myself 😂). I don't think there's anything else we'll use them for (given we've never used them before) and this will save £18 (out of my treats budget 😂😂)

Need to make a decision about a job today. Can't remember if I mentioned it. It's out of my sector, so very much NOT what I am used to, but I meet all the criteria, and I know (vaguely) the person who does it. It would certainly be an interesting mix up for me. It's full time 😬 but remote (there would be some travel to events though). Pay is slightly higher. I'd lose some of what I do now, but not all, and would gain some other things. 

Anyway, applications next week so if I do want to apply I need to get on. 

I suspect they won't give it to me - there will be other people doing more similar roles, or doing my job at a higher level... Anyway, I need to at least have a proper read and decide if I'd actually WANT it, that's the first step!

Before that though, I need to get out if bed 😬 don't want to be rushing and late for my relaxing spa day 😂

Brewerspride

Enjoy your day of relaxation!

PennysIntoPounds

Hope you've bravely coped with the free prosecco 🙏🥂

Cheery_Daff

Thank you both 😊 We had a lovely day, although it was a bit weird to be sat in the cafe in the foyer of a leisure centre, with lots of people coming through in gym clothes, and us sitting in dressing gowns eating cheesecake 😂😂

Nice day though, nipping between the pool, sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, relaxation room, and then a massage at the end of the day 😊

No prosecco though - when we were given out menus to choose lunch, it only had hot drinks on 😂😂 I didn't quibble as I'd actually wanted to swap it for a hot drink anyway 😂😂

Anyway. The sun has been shining today. I've been food shopping, rejoined slimming world 😬 (something I have mixed feelings about, but definitely feeling the need to do something about my weight, and in the past I have benefitted from the structure). I paid for 12 weeks upfront, and was going to take it from my personal spends, but Mr C insisted it comes from the Health & Dentist pot, so that's what I've done 😊 Paid up til after Christmas, and I'm going to do my best to stick to it and get my money's worth.

And now I'm on to the job application. The more I read the more interested I am, and the less daunted. I ventured a peek at the salary calculator and was alarmed to see it paying less than my current (0.8FTE) job - until I realised I'd missed a digit out of my tax code 😂😂

I'm already within the same salary bracket (if I was working full time), but it would bump me into the 40% tax bracket. But still, additional take-home would be between £450 and £700 a month, depending where I ended up on the salary scale. 

Full time, but also fully remote (I suspect a reasonable bit of travelling but not excessive). Opprtunity to do compressed hours, it looks like. 

Anyway, having figured all that out, looked at the profile of the boss and the rest of the team, and had a good read of the job description, I'm talking myself INTO it rather than out of it. 

Just need to write the darn application now...

KajiKita

Sounds like a good day 😊👏

When’s the submission deadline for the possible job? 

KK

beanielou

Time to get busy then 🤗

Jessy103

The new job prospect sounds exciting, you got this cheery 💪 x

Cheery_Daff

KajiKita said:

Sounds like a good day 😊👏

When’s the submission deadline for the possible job? 

KK

End of this week, so I've got a few days. It's not been open for long, quite a quick turnaround, there's a set date for interviews too which isn't far enough away in my opinion! 😂

MUCH shorter application than I'm used to, but that doesn't mean it'll take less time to write 😂

greenbee

And remember, if the role is fully remote, then any travel can be expensed from the moment you set foot outside your door...