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

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

That's fine. Personally, I have found it a more useful organisation for what I do/did than the BCS. On the other hand, I am probably more of a MIS sort of guy that a bleeding edge developer.
I found after years of BCS propaganda that IMIS was much more what I was looking for. But as I said in the first comment, YMMV.

[pm215]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a BCS enthusiast either. The IMIS web page is at least a little better than the BCS one at answering the key question "why should I give you my money?", although I'm still far from convinced -- a subscription to Dr Dobbs or similar looks like better value to me :-)

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

As I said earlier, I found the IMIS more to my taste. (Personal disclaimer follows:) My dislike of the BCS also stems from the fact that after gradating and working in the industry for two or three years, they wouldn't upgrade my membership beyond student member.

In other news, have nothing to do with the IAP.