Job front looking up
I've got six extra days paid work for May, taking me up to just over half my usual hours (and pay). It's revision of some software I wrote about a decade ago, and I finally get to jettison the stupid database structure which was forced on me at the time so that it'll work properly and be movable to MySQL, which the owners of the site want to do.
And I've just yesterday submitted a project bid which would pay half my salary between June and November. This was the third revision submitted, which means I've spent quite a lot of my "free" time when not doing paid work finishing it instead of the things I wanted to get done. But the funders now seem pretty positive about it, so I'm quite hopeful it will go through. This isn't the usual government funded bunch, but a charitable foundation which funds research work on identity so the parent company can remain not for profit, and the project would be looking into ways to securely link the entitlements people have as a result of different affiliations, something that has affected me quite a bit personally (working for 2 different HEIs, as I did until last year, and also using my BCS membership to get access to some resources - the LSE library not being very interested in computing).
G's been less well over the last month, so my personal life hasn't been so good. Swings and roundabouts.
And I've just yesterday submitted a project bid which would pay half my salary between June and November. This was the third revision submitted, which means I've spent quite a lot of my "free" time when not doing paid work finishing it instead of the things I wanted to get done. But the funders now seem pretty positive about it, so I'm quite hopeful it will go through. This isn't the usual government funded bunch, but a charitable foundation which funds research work on identity so the parent company can remain not for profit, and the project would be looking into ways to securely link the entitlements people have as a result of different affiliations, something that has affected me quite a bit personally (working for 2 different HEIs, as I did until last year, and also using my BCS membership to get access to some resources - the LSE library not being very interested in computing).
G's been less well over the last month, so my personal life hasn't been so good. Swings and roundabouts.