broken off car door
a man with a plan (or two -the least important plan right now is to go to buy the new maps album next week).
ok, this job finishes at the end of the month. so there's two more days after today is over -which won't take long.
to be honest i don't mind the fact that this is coming to an end. at the minute there isn't simething set up to take over from it immediately, but that's not bad. for one thing yesterday i found out that c+s glasgow have offered me a job interview a couple of weeks into october. that's reassuring. actually i don't know what that job is or where it will be, but the job spec is saved onto my (beloved) memory stick, so i'll have a look at that before i go, and try to preare. it could be a museum or a library or a swimming pool for all i know, the job title was vague. cultural and leisure attendant.
anyhow, whatever.
so maybe i'll be unemployed for a few days at the start of the month, but that's not too bad. for one thing it'll give me time -potentially, at any rate- to get some stuff done, by which i mainly mean to go and visit a few of the places around here that i've not yet got to go to. on a walk along the fife coast last week i was often looking south, as that was the best view. back to the city with the dramatic skyline, the crags, castle, hills, spires sticking up into the sky. i've not yet climbed arthur's seat or visited the castle in all my time living here. yet.. i've walked some of the southern part of the fife coast path.
just the way the cookie crumbles.
one of the job aplications that went in a week or two ago i have a hope for an interview from. between january and june i was a regular volunteer at a national trust property called attingham park -it was one that i lived nearby, when i was still in ironbridge. i spotted a job there, seasonal but full time, from october until whenever, march maybe. so i put a form in. the volunteering i was doing there was outdoors, whereas this job is indoors, but i think i'm in with a chance. an interview there would give me an excuse to head back down and see the place, see the people again. to be honest do i want the job? i do like the place, and there's the people i knew, but it is the provincial and slightly rural midlands, which could well seem like a large step backwards in terms of art and culture.
when i look at what is on at the cinemas, theatres and gig venues coming up in the next month or two, i don't exactly want to leave. you get old in shropshire, come out of it not knowing if you're twenty-something or.. besides, going back, you know it's not the same. i guess if i got the job there then i would try to live in shrewsbury in any case, rather than ironbridge.
but then maybe i'll be here in edinburgh for longer. i saw a job advertised at the castle, so that got me filling in an application form. and there are other forms filled in, all over the place.
if i'm not working then i've already offered to a few places to be a volunteer for them. i'm already doing a day a week outdoors with the nts at a local property, but i offered to help them out more, if i am on the dole. one of their other places which is open through the winter was saying they have places available for people to come and work in the visitor services side of things; experience selling tickets and souvenirs.. when that's the same as some of the jobs i'm applying for. i've also asked them if they'd like me to help out in other places, like i could learn about indoors conservation as well. the national museum of scotland have volunteer places, although they sounded more structured, maybe long term, more formal, as if they expect something back from us. i applied for one of those, which i might well get, i don't know. but i can't commit to anything long term; if i get a job then i'm outta here (presumably). there was also an offer to oxfam to help them. a spot of retail experience might come in good.
ok, this job finishes at the end of the month. so there's two more days after today is over -which won't take long.
to be honest i don't mind the fact that this is coming to an end. at the minute there isn't simething set up to take over from it immediately, but that's not bad. for one thing yesterday i found out that c+s glasgow have offered me a job interview a couple of weeks into october. that's reassuring. actually i don't know what that job is or where it will be, but the job spec is saved onto my (beloved) memory stick, so i'll have a look at that before i go, and try to preare. it could be a museum or a library or a swimming pool for all i know, the job title was vague. cultural and leisure attendant.
anyhow, whatever.
so maybe i'll be unemployed for a few days at the start of the month, but that's not too bad. for one thing it'll give me time -potentially, at any rate- to get some stuff done, by which i mainly mean to go and visit a few of the places around here that i've not yet got to go to. on a walk along the fife coast last week i was often looking south, as that was the best view. back to the city with the dramatic skyline, the crags, castle, hills, spires sticking up into the sky. i've not yet climbed arthur's seat or visited the castle in all my time living here. yet.. i've walked some of the southern part of the fife coast path.
just the way the cookie crumbles.
one of the job aplications that went in a week or two ago i have a hope for an interview from. between january and june i was a regular volunteer at a national trust property called attingham park -it was one that i lived nearby, when i was still in ironbridge. i spotted a job there, seasonal but full time, from october until whenever, march maybe. so i put a form in. the volunteering i was doing there was outdoors, whereas this job is indoors, but i think i'm in with a chance. an interview there would give me an excuse to head back down and see the place, see the people again. to be honest do i want the job? i do like the place, and there's the people i knew, but it is the provincial and slightly rural midlands, which could well seem like a large step backwards in terms of art and culture.
when i look at what is on at the cinemas, theatres and gig venues coming up in the next month or two, i don't exactly want to leave. you get old in shropshire, come out of it not knowing if you're twenty-something or.. besides, going back, you know it's not the same. i guess if i got the job there then i would try to live in shrewsbury in any case, rather than ironbridge.
but then maybe i'll be here in edinburgh for longer. i saw a job advertised at the castle, so that got me filling in an application form. and there are other forms filled in, all over the place.
if i'm not working then i've already offered to a few places to be a volunteer for them. i'm already doing a day a week outdoors with the nts at a local property, but i offered to help them out more, if i am on the dole. one of their other places which is open through the winter was saying they have places available for people to come and work in the visitor services side of things; experience selling tickets and souvenirs.. when that's the same as some of the jobs i'm applying for. i've also asked them if they'd like me to help out in other places, like i could learn about indoors conservation as well. the national museum of scotland have volunteer places, although they sounded more structured, maybe long term, more formal, as if they expect something back from us. i applied for one of those, which i might well get, i don't know. but i can't commit to anything long term; if i get a job then i'm outta here (presumably). there was also an offer to oxfam to help them. a spot of retail experience might come in good.