Category: What Happens Now?

I’m now in a company apartment/flat; Not 100% on how long I can stay here, but I’m hoping that it’s long enough to see out the next week (my first week of work – I start on Monday) and the weekend without needing to hunt for a place. It’d be nice to be able to concentrate on…

A couple of weeks have gone by since The Interview, and … they’ve been sometimes busy, sometimes relaxing, sometimes fun, in one instance gutwrenchingly horrible, and very occasionally productive. After the initial OhMyGodOhMyGod of the job offer, and some shenaniganry involving getting the contract printed so that I could sign it, I had a couple of weeks…

More photos, this time from Aylesbury; I didn’t take any on the trip down from Edinburgh, or through London, or out to Aylesbury. Aylesbury has a branch of the Grand Union Canal, and it runs past two sides of the hotel I was staying in. Near as I can tell, folks are living in those narrowboats; It’s…

This is one of those “I Take Too Many Photos” posts; Just so’s you know. In the space between the phone interview & the face-to-face one, I stayed in North Berwick for a couple of nights. I’d been told about North Berwick by the other escapee from Pukey Van Der McGee’s reign; It sounded like…

When last we left our hero protagonist, back in Barely Breathing, the phone interview had gone well, and the as-yet-unnamed company were interested in a face to face interview. There’s always a gap between Let’s Talk and Can You Do Thursday?, and in the meantime I discovered that Edinburgh was booked solid because of a rugby game.…

Yesterday there was a phone interview, as recounted in This Is Just Where I Came In, and it went well, I thought; Clearly I picked a good mix from the available behavior options. I’d not expected to hear anything back before Friday, or more realistically Monday, and … I didn’t have a solid idea as to…

Attempting to wrap my thoughts around the thorny issue of What To Do Next. The conversation with a recruiter I mentioned led to a phone interview; For a variety of reasons I’m keeping a bit quiet on who it was with, but it went well. The slightly nervous laughter from all parties turned into actual…

I extended my stay here at the Safestay Hostel, and for some reason this involved me shifting rooms. I’m not convinced that their system is actually that good at keeping track of available rooms & bookings and so on – There were beds available when I asked, but it took a managerial type to intervene…

OK, there’s not really any news; Jobhunt not going well, urge to punch recruiters for being shit-useless steadily rising, and I really have no clue what to do about it. Still, it’s a nice photo of the castle, I thought. Yes, more stairwell pictures†; This one’s at the Safestay Hostel, which has a somewhat complex…

Assuming that anyone is still reading this after The Ballad Of Pukey Van Der McGee, here’s something of an update on the current situation. That building on the left is the High Street Hostel; Window of the Lord of the Rings room was the one just above the outcropping at the far end, before the yellow-ish…