I’m simultaneously excited and nervous, since this week I’ve had two job interviews for a job I want. Apparently I’m a good chance - there is only one other candidate for the role. Plus the role pretty much has everything I want. The money is much better than my (very low paid) previous job; it is well-located, so no long commutes; and it gets me back into development, which is what I want to do.
The job is an unusual hybrid role - it is primarily tech support, but the product is mainly used by website designers and developers, so it is far beyond the standard “try checking if the caps lock is on” level. Plus there is the promise of .Net development down the track. Sweet!
AFL Grand Final starts in an hour. I will be watching, if only because everyone does in this town.
Now, to Russian language learning. Language learning takes up an awful lot of time. I will look rather silly if, at the end of it all, it is of no use to me. I hope that doesn’t happen. I’m not as fluent as I’d hoped I would be by this point. There are various reasons for that - I might elaborate on them in a future post. For now, I’ll just throw some links your way in the off-chance that anyone is interested.
http://anaitiss.livejournal.com/617975.html - Ever wanted to have a young, beautiful Russian careerist hack political activist on your Skype contact list? Maria Sergeyeva, Putin cheerleader and YouTube star, has publicly posted her Skype username on her blog. No idea if she speaks English.
Putvedev’s faith-based initiatives - Discussion of vacuous speech by the just-mentioned Maria Sergeyeva at Scraps Of Moscow (in English).
Cheburashka - Children’s claymation cartoon from Soviet times about a monkey-like creature whose best friend is a crocodile that plays the accordian. The linked YouTube playlist has several episodes, all subtitled in English.
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September 27, 2009 at 3:12 am
Mat
Hey man
Good luck with the job and stuff like that. Hope you get it! Stay in touch
October 6, 2009 at 5:56 pm
markk
Shall do, Mat!
December 30, 2009 at 5:40 am
Beth
Yes, the nail biting time. The time between the great interview and the time of decision and announcement.
Sometimes though I have found that the “best” time IS the time between the interview and the announcement.
It is the most fun. The most exciting in terms of anticipation of what might be.
Sometimes also, I have found that in my mind I’ve made the job too important, and risk a real letdown if I don’t get the position.
I know it is impossible not to look forward to a decision, and for what “we think” will happen in our lives if we get a position.
On the other hand, if we have faith that somehow our paths are being directed (and I do), I have found in the past that when I don’t get a position, that’s because there is something even better in the wings, something that I am not even aware of at the time of my so-called disappointment.
So, either way, I’m going to root for you.
If the job is as you believe, and it is right for you, you will get it.
If it is not right for us, that is, if the people interviewing us decide it isn’t, then the job wasn’t as good as we thought it was to begin with.
It is so hard to evaluate the employer in the interview.
Everyone is on their best behavior.
I would rather be rejected by an employer before finding out that there is no fit than later when I’ve turned down something that would have been much more appropriate.
Anyway, I will root for the best for you.
You sound like a great person.