Fully Legal and Employed December 19, 2009
Posted by Sharny in : Life, Work , trackbackThis week has been quite the turnaround. I’d hoped for it to be good but you’ve got to be careful with potentially good things, I didn’t want to celebrate too early. So, Sunday we had a gig down at the Grange Hall in the village. It was quite a fun event, free for everyone and included a buffet. Lots of bands from the local area, quite a few of which were good fun to see perform. Our set was pretty short (15mins) which was unfortunate but you have to make the best of these things, it was a good fun evening overall.
Then on Monday I had a job interview at the local Co-op food store. I felt it went well at the time but didn’t want to jump the gun in happiness terms so I just waited to hear back.
On Tuesday was a big day in every persons life, I had my driving test and passed (yep, first time, I think I can be a little smug about that). It was almost a fail for going too slowly (which does make me chuckle somewhat) but almost a fail and flying colours all end up the same in the end. It’s difficult for me to feel too pleased about this as it don’t actually have anything to drive at the moment, nor the money to buy it. However of course I’m happy to have passed, it’s only just starting to sink in really, the idea that I can drive on my own and that I won’t have to do any more reversing around corners.
This was followed up the next day by the news that I had got the job at Co-op. Since I felt it went well it wasn’t exactly a surprise but in the current economic climate I’ve become used to being turned down for stuff. I had my induction yesterday and I start on Sunday, my only point of confusion being that I have yet to get any uniform and don’t really know what the hell is going on overall. I have faith it will work out though, I’m starting before the store opens so there’s plenty of time to get things straight.
I’m really relieved to have this work, it will allow me to have a steady income stream so that I can do my own projects on the side without worrying about having no money. It’s a big weight taken off my shoulders and will have an incredibly positive effect on this year. Unless something weird happens I’ll have a car by the time I go back to Uni so I’ll be able to continue working whilst I study.
It’s quite amazing how a week can turn things around. I should feel much better than I do and that is a little frustrating, I guess it’s because these things are long term and take a while for their positive effects to really show. Still, things are certainly on the up, even if they aren’t quite how I’d cherry pick them to be (when are they ever like that?).
Tagged as: Driving, Hope, Life, Money, Work
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