Cafecortado’s Weblog

January 10, 2010

Long time no see?

Filed under: British life,Jobs — cafecortado @ 4:19 pm
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Well, it seems I’ve been away a long time. Except I’ve not been away, just trying to concentrate on getting work, without much success. I had the chance of an interview last month, but was unable to get to the place. Firstly the car rental company re-allocated the car I’d already paid for (nice one Alamo, I still feel you’ve stolen from me). I tried to go by train to the interview and got to Euston station only to find that all trains were cancelled at that point (it was the Friday before the holidays when we were surprised by snow). The interview was re-arranged for Wednesday this week but guess what the snow came again and my chance of the interview went out the window.

Apart from that I’ve been working on my new website. It may be of use for Spanish speakers – enter in an English word eg “deep”, “useful”, or “bear” and various expressions will be displayed, next to their Spanish translation. Early days yet, so the database isn’t anywhere near comprehensive, but there are still quite a few words to look at.

http://www.lenguahelp.co.uk/

Anything else? Ah yes – Happy new Year!

June 19, 2008

At last, good news!

Filed under: Jobs — cafecortado @ 11:04 am
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I’m not quite sure how I managed it, but after a successful interview last week I received the contract for a new job this morning. Very happy! (I start Monday)

October 1, 2007

It never rains, but it pours…

Filed under: British life — cafecortado @ 6:13 pm
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Well, at last some good news, resulting from an interview this morning. Barring major (or even middling) hiccups I have a contract job starting on  Thursday. This will take me up to the end of the year. It does mean however that a load of stuff I had planned to do on my computer will have to wait. I’m knee deep  in forms to fill in, declarations to make, software to gem up on. Not to mention I’ll have to get permission to extend my overdraft with the bank (it’ll probably be 2 months before I see any money).

Other than that, it certainly felt like Autumn here today. The leaves are starting to fall, it started raining mid-morning and hasn’t stopped (although it hasn’t been particularly heavy). Plus I turned the lights on at 2.30 as it was so dark. Ah well, only 6 or 7 months to Spring!

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