Sitting at home

[venta]

This entry is very dull, I just need to record some stuff somewhere.

It's now two weeks since I've been in work - the week before the company folded we'd been sent home by the Administrators while they counted things and archived hard drives. Two weeks off work is nearly half my annual holiday allowance, so that'd be, like, loads of free time. So I can do all those things like tidying my room that never quite happen, yeah ? Well, no, I seem to have been really busy. So I feel I ought to keep track of what I'm going with my time before it all slides away from me.

Week 1
Mon-Tues: sitting at home trying to write a CV. Deeply unpleasant experience. Ended up with a first draft.
Wed: Early morning meeting at work, employees decamped en masse and spent the rest of the day in the pub.
Thurs: Helped Frances make banners. Painted a flag to take to Glastonbury (which reminds me, must sew it up and find a flagpole).
Fri: Travelling to the Lake District.

Week 2
Mon: AM - filling in redundancy forms at work. PM - futile trip to jocentre.
Tues: AM - on phone and on hold to jobcentre and various other people who want to know I'm out of work. PM - Reading a write-your-CV book and applying for BCS membership.
Wed: Rewriting of CV in accordance with feedback from various sources. Much gnashing of teeth.
Thurs: AM - Further CV rewriting. PM - sold textbooks to Blackwells, made quiche/cake/brownies.

Comments

[kissifa.livejournal.com]

I enjoy sorting out CVs (why, I don't know).

If you wanted someone to have a look at it and have a rabid stab at a rewrite, then please consider me a volunteer. :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's a very kind offer. However, one of my main problems at the moment is that several people have been kind and offered advice/feedback/rewrites - but they've all said diametrically opposed things. At this stage I think any more suggestions might make my head explode :)

[kissifa.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, the joy of CVs! Head-splodey goodness!

Well, the offer stands. :)

[davefish.livejournal.com]

I'd listen to the one who has the most fun job.

Good luck with all the re-writing, finding jobs, and stuff.

[condign.livejournal.com]

I would make a similar offer, given that I've written more CVs than I've had birthdays. Then again, you might want to question the wisdom of my help.

Good luck: job-searching is always an awful process.