lux aeterna

a couple of things. first up i got offered a new contract today. its at another large bank, which readers of this blog will know i hate working at. strangely enough, the 3 people that interviewed me for the job all told me it was going to be a boring contract and pretty shit. never had an interview where the people actually say its a shit boring job, so it really must be. on the flip side, the pay is ok, and although i dont need the money, i do need to work, if that makes any sense. i can not be just bumming around decorating the house and fixing stuff. i would actually like to go out and do a job. the money is secondary, though relevant, but not the primary reason. 

secondly, my friend who told me he had go the job at the hedge fund, (and which his friend torpedo'd me for ), actually may have jumped the gun a bit. turns out that 2 weeks after he expected to get an offer, one still has not been officially put to him. to add insult to injury, his current contract which was going to be renewed will now not be. one minute it looks like you have 2 jobs and the next you have none. oh, well, i hope he did what any sensible contractor would do and saved his money and created a buffer. actually, i know what he did and he did not do that. that fella spends money like crazy. 

anyways, the new job wants me to start on july 15th. as usual i have to go through a shit load of security checks. i will spend the next 3 weeks still on the market and if anything better comes up i will take it, but if not i will go with this place. i am not going to turn anything down and whilst it might be boring and dull, i will concentrate on the positives. lots of people get paid miles less to be stuck in jobs they hate. perspective on how lucky i am is something i need to keep reminding myself. also, its about 35 minutes on the train and i have a ton of books piling up that i want to read so will get to do that on the train for an hour every day, and maybe lunchtimes as well. i might not learn much about computers but i will learn more about angola, the taliban, and latin america. 

this is a phenomenal piece for music from the film, requiem for a dream.