lifeline

there are 2 contractors in our department. actually i will rephrase that. there WERE 2 contractors in our department. the girl that had been here 18 months and who i said spoke really quietly and was in a semi-comatose state has not had her contract renewed and been let go. i think she was a little pissed off that my contract was renewed as i had only been here 3 months.

i asked the guy next to me why they had decided to let her go and if it had been a choice between us i would have though the newbie (me) would have got bus stop. he said that the rest of the team found it hard to communicate with her.

i am always going on about this exam i did and that exam i did but the most important thing i have found in going to job interviews is if people feel they can work with you and talk to you and get on with you. its been a really good experience for me in the last couple of jobs i have had, that i have had to work with lots of different people none of whom i knew before and some of whom turned out to be assholes, but we still managed to work with them and survive. a friend of mine who worked with me at my last bank is now working for another american bank that i turned down, and he is having a pretty bad time there. he hates his boss.
regarding interviews and employers judging whether you will fit in with their teams, its also a chance for you to judge whether you like them. have been to a couple of interviews where i have been interviewed by people i just knew immediately they would be difficult to work with.

anyways been getting a couple of calls recently about some jobs. don't know if anything will happen with them but i think the job market has hit rock bottom and from here onwards things might start getting slightly better over the next few weeks and months. in an environment as tough as this, i am lucky to be employed by one of the largest american banks, instead of having a blank space of a few months on my cv whilst being out of work. when the market turns i will have a good cv with a couple of contracts at investment banks and with every exam ever made (slight exageration), and then its rock n roll baby!. i would really like a good project engineering role putting in some interesting systems. am doing lots of support and operational things at the moment. its no stress and its all experience so shall not complain any more about it.

delayed my citrix exam by a week. was supposed to be this friday but moved it to next friday. am not quite at the level i need to be so will study some more. one day i will get a job where i can learn something at work instead of learning things when i go home in the evening.

don't think we will have football this week. have been struggling for numbers recently and now the the guy who got the job as a courier and went to LA and tokyo last week, has just flown off to beunos aires, argentina. i am so jealous. tokyo and beunos aires are the 2 places in the world i would most like to go and he has gone to both in a week. one day.......

today i have mostly been listening to angels and airwaves - lifeline.
a little bit of uplifting music as the weather is horrible today.

keep smiling V