Improvement
I was in Parliament this past week, and CoS mentioned that one of the departments that interviewed me for a job contacted him for a reference and that they were quite keen to hire me. Unfortunately, they were hit with a hiring freeze. That's good news, because it smashes the sense of pointlessness I had after being knocked back from other public service jobs for ridiculous reasons. I had an interview on Friday and now I am registered with another agency who impressed me with the degree of interest they took in me.
I've also put the word out to a number of old work colleagues, and there is growing interest in the idea of me training people at my old office. I've got new business cards for Molon Labe Fitness and I may be having my first session the week after next.
There is also another looming job prospect that I had never considered before. It wouldn't be a full time job and it wouldn't be a career, but it would be right up my alley. It would be hosting trivia. I don't know why this never struck me before. I could have been doing this for months. There will be a tryout on Tuesday where I will be reading questions 11-15 at a local trivia night, and once I am approved, there will be opportunities to fill in here and there.
The market has had some good news recently. It's been down this week overall, but for me it has been up. VMG is finally back up to it's capital raising level and the options I picked up are up too with probably plenty more to go. AUT finally stopped it's recent decline and buyers are coming back in. SNL, which I have been quite happy with as it has been very steady, jumped enough for my sell order to be taken up. It's a great stock and I have another order in to buy some of it back if it falls again, but it is a very thinly traded stock and I was uneasy having as much as I had locked up in a stock that sometimes goes a week or two without a single trade.
I'm getting closer to qualifying as a fire fighter. This week we played with fire extinguishers and practiced emergency burnover procedures.
My parents came down to Canberra and a couple of dinners were had, but aside from that and a tour of Parliament I didn't see them. I'll be going up to Sydney on Thursday before they leave on Saturday. I have no idea what to get my nieces for (delayed) Christmas. Apparently they are both in a girly phase. There's virtually nothing I know about girly girls aged 8 and 6.
Overall, it's been a good week. Still a bit numb though.
I've also put the word out to a number of old work colleagues, and there is growing interest in the idea of me training people at my old office. I've got new business cards for Molon Labe Fitness and I may be having my first session the week after next.
There is also another looming job prospect that I had never considered before. It wouldn't be a full time job and it wouldn't be a career, but it would be right up my alley. It would be hosting trivia. I don't know why this never struck me before. I could have been doing this for months. There will be a tryout on Tuesday where I will be reading questions 11-15 at a local trivia night, and once I am approved, there will be opportunities to fill in here and there.
The market has had some good news recently. It's been down this week overall, but for me it has been up. VMG is finally back up to it's capital raising level and the options I picked up are up too with probably plenty more to go. AUT finally stopped it's recent decline and buyers are coming back in. SNL, which I have been quite happy with as it has been very steady, jumped enough for my sell order to be taken up. It's a great stock and I have another order in to buy some of it back if it falls again, but it is a very thinly traded stock and I was uneasy having as much as I had locked up in a stock that sometimes goes a week or two without a single trade.
I'm getting closer to qualifying as a fire fighter. This week we played with fire extinguishers and practiced emergency burnover procedures.
My parents came down to Canberra and a couple of dinners were had, but aside from that and a tour of Parliament I didn't see them. I'll be going up to Sydney on Thursday before they leave on Saturday. I have no idea what to get my nieces for (delayed) Christmas. Apparently they are both in a girly phase. There's virtually nothing I know about girly girls aged 8 and 6.
Overall, it's been a good week. Still a bit numb though.