CraigBlog

A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts

  • should I be linking to or inserting the various songs I reference in blog post titles? serious question – I name them that way because it amuses me, but I wonder whether either of the readers of this thing have…

  • I thought about posting a succession of ‘Today’s Clothing’ images, but it’s one small step from there to Fashion Blogging, and I think we’d all agree that I have no business being in that sector of the internet. So, week one.…

  • First day of the new job. Here I am, dressed for work, and apparently cosplaying as a tree. Note please the calm posture, indicative of someone who is not nervous at all. How to sum up day one? Induction maybe pneumonia?…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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