This is all I've known, this is the life in which I've grown

[venta]

On June 18th, I joined in with an LJ meme where I wrote about my life ten years ago, five years ago, today, etc. My employer has had a somewhat chequered history, but as I wrote in the 'now' section, everything was on "a reasonably even keel" and had been for a while

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[erming]

I had gardening leave once and while good getting paid to stay at home, I missed colleagues. I faced the decision do I start to look for work (and miss a good redundancy payment) or wait and see.

Congrats on the new job, and for going out purposes working in central London is great.

[venta]

I was so busy doing DIY, housework, looking for a job, etc that I didn't even have time to miss my colleagues (lovely people though they are).

And yes, definitely looking forward to the advantages of being more central.

[strange_complex]

Commiserations about the old job, but congratulations on the new. I hope you soon feel nicely settled there, and that the move overall turns out to be a good thing.

[venta]

Thank you :)

[sammason]

Oh dear. I completely missed this story in your life. So sorry about that and glad that the next chapter looks promising. I hope there'll be tea and cake in your new office.

[venta]

Thank you for your well wishes (and went I went for interview there was not only tea but doughnuts! This may have just been the office in 'demo mode', though ;)

The story hasn't been on the internet til now - for various reasons, I've been keeping very quiet about it. I hope to post lots about the excitement of working in central London, though!

[sammason]

Oh I see, it was discretion on your part not daftitude on mine.

I think the new company had already decided to hire you when they bought in doughnuts. And perhaps they wanted to watch how you'd cope. Jammy, sugary doughnuts at a job interview are like spaghetti on a first date.

[venta]

I couldn't agree more! The doughnuts were apparently brought in for someone's birthday, but I did comment after I'd picked one up that that was a fairly critical interview blunder :) Fortunately everyone was polite enough not to ask me questions while I had a gobful of Krispy Kreme.

[bateleur]

Oh no! Didn't realise [old employer] was in danger of going under. Sad news. :-(

I'd definitely have picked the robots, but good luck at the new place nonetheless. 8-)

[davefish]

Perhaps you can persuade the new place to market robots as a compromise?

[sammason]

You should demand a doughnut-serving robot.

[davefish]

It should serve Doombar instead of doughnuts.

[huskyteer]

Wow, what a shock - I'm glad you were able to find something else so quickly!

[venta]

Me too, and thank you!