Last Week's Job & This Week's Job

I guess now is a good a time as any to make a new post. My life took a turn for the interesting last week, and then got more interesting. Not quite Japan just yet, but still...

Despite my uneasy feelings, I went for the second stage of the interviews with the company with the hasty progression system. I spent the day with one of the accounts managers with the company and learnt more about what they did. The job was door-to-door sales (in my case it was canvassing for charity donations) I still had reservations, but I needed a job pretty desperately.

Little did I realise that the hours weren't what they claimed. I was told originally that it was 11:30 to 8:30, but the truth is that of the 4 days I went, I arrived at 10 AM in 3 of the days and every day I struggled to get the last train at 10:05 PM. The money per time ratio was terrible, and I just couldn't see myself getting any money for at least 2 weeks, and being paid 2 weeks in hand would mean it'd take a month before I received my earnings. So in all, I was unimpressed after 2 days.

That's not to say that I'm afraid of the hard work, dislike my colleagues, dislike the job or the hours. In fact I found the people quite pleasant, I don't mind working any of the hours as long as I'm paid AT LEAST national minimum wage. There were times in the job which were pleasant, especially when you're just about to get an app but at the end of the day it was financially not for me.

I skived away from work in order to go to an interview last Friday, get new shoes to replace the ones were wrecked from all the walking at work and get an eye test. So now I start a new job on Wednesday, with the induction tomorrow. Go me!

The new job has a steady wage, though I wish there were more hours in the job. I think with this I should have no problem paying my way to getting new glasses and going to Japan.

In another note, I applied for another job working as an energy surveyor, only to discover that the job was actually with the company that I was going to leave. Oops!

Still no news from Interac at the moment, hopefully it all goes well. I have no idea where it is I'll be going to...