Seeing as it's my love's weekly civ-time, I have time to blog.
Some of you already know: I landed a super cool job. Or well... I think it's going to be super cool.
I had three job interviews last week. I don't need a job super bad, but my contract finished at the end of March and I had already had very little work from January on and I don't have a lot of classes. I can't stand sitting at home doing nothing. It's not so bad while I do it, but I always feel bad afterwards, if I wasted another morning reading random shit on the internet. So I tried to find a job and applied for all kinds of places. Three interviews last week.
One was uneventful and super short, about 10 minutes.
One was a horrible experience. I don't know if any of you knows Accenture? They have a pretty big outsourcing branch in Poland and were looking for a "Cash Collector" with German. Call Centre work. Not very demanding if you know the language. Anyway, the interview was half in Polish and then in English and the lady asked all kinds of typical job interview questions. You know "What's the biggest achievement in your life so far?" "How do you deal with stress?" and like all sorts of other really stupid questions totally unrelated to the job. Ugh. I get them wanting to have good employees, but all of that for a stupid call centre job?! What the?? There was supposed to be a second part, but I didn't even go anymore.
The third was at the job I'm already working at now. It's an international law firm and they wanted a German native speaker for proof reading and correcting. I had the interview with one of the lawyers and the office manager lady and they were both super nice. And they called me yesterday to let me know I was accepted They were looking for someone full time I think, but I wanted 20h a week (and then change to full time in July) and they were ok with that and with how much I wanted to get paid. It's also 5min by bus or a 20min walk from our place! I had my first day today actually. I have an office on the 10th floor. Also if they don't let me change to full time or give me a raise in July, I have a good reason to quit... because I told them we plan to stay in PL, which we really don't. Well... unless we'd both get jobs that pay like 2k€/month, in which case I'd consider staying.
My boyfriend is still working for the stupid company that pays him 25€/month and they give him more stupid tasks to do every day. He sent out some more CVs, though and is looking for something new. Let's hope something comes up. I hate seeing him depressed about the work situation.
We bought tickets to go home at the end of May. I hope I can still go with the new job and all, but I haven't been home in whole year. My grandparents aren't doing so well right now Lately they're in and out of the hospital and while I'm super bad at dealing with illness-issues, I'm sad I can't be there for them. So I at least want to go to see them.
There's about a month left now until both Olek's and my birthday (May 10th and 3rd). I have some ideas for presents but now that we live together I don't want to order anything :-/ We're probably going away for my birthday because May 3rd is the Polish national holiday (it was my destiny to come here) and a long weekend.
It has FINALLY been in the (low) plus °C the past few days and you can't imagine how good it feels. My weather app tells me, it's supposed to be 19°C next Thursday!!
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I'm sure if you explain the situation to the new job, they'll be understanding. (Especially if you throw in the "I haven't been home in a year" thing.) I'm sorry to hear about your grandparents. I'm not any good with illness issues either, I don't know what I will do when my parents are old like my grandparents. Maybe by then I'll be better at it? lol
Sorry to hear about your grandparents... fingers crossed your boss will be very understanding!
Congrats on getting work, and on the sunshine