In between chatting with some really nice people yesterday, I also managed to send off about 20 job applications. This sounds like a lot of work, and it is, but it is not as hard as I thought. It’s like job shopping. You add jobs to your shopping cart, and then you can apply for all of them at once, because the job world in the UK is ruled by recruitment agencies, and many applications are send to the same agencies. I learned that yesterday. I haven’t really heard anything yet, but look at it positively as there are really many jobs to apply for. There must be a job out there for me too somewhere. That thought keeps me going right now.
And it’s first now that I am ready to throw myself into jobhunting, I needed to gather some positivity and faith and good spirit, to be able to handle the high amount of rejections I, without a doubt, am going to get. I am ready.
So 20 applications. 18 of them are jobs which are ok, maybe a bit more exiting than my current job, but not where I want to be in the end really. But it will be quite allright to start with. The other 2 jobs I applied for are in the category “You got to be kidding – you are applying for this job – are you mad” ? This being said by the people getting my application. As in – I have no chance whatsoever in getting these jobs. They are not IT jobs.
But one of those two – if I (completely hypothetically speaking, ’cause it is not going to happen) should ever get a job like that (it has a very lousy payment but I don’t care) – I would be the second happiest girl in the Galaxy. The best job ever imagineable would be becoming some particular Brit’s assistent. The other job however, is, compared to that ridiculous idea, more likely, with an ImprobaBILLity factor of only about 99.999%.
Fact is though – that London has job openings like this. I didn’t just pick London out of the blue you know, I have actually thought about it. And you never know, one day I just might be lucky.
47 days. Goodness …
Good luck Ingrid…
Are you searching in development (what platform if so?), project management, etc?
Thank you Dan :-)
Yes development : ASP, ASP.NET, VB.NET, MS SQL, mySQL etc.
Wait a tick, that’s uncle Sam. Shouldn’t it be this one:
http://media.microgeluk.nl/250px-Kitchener-Britons.jpg
Of course ! Even though I have no plans joining the army, not even in Britain :-) I gave Uncle Sam a kick, and now it’s Uncle, well I have no idea what his name is, so let’s call him, uhm Uncle Bill ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Kitchener,_1st_Earl_Kitchener
Right Earl Horatio Kitchener then. I wonder if he knows the Earl of Clincham ?