Rambling

Well,  I have just begun 2 weeks off holidays. Not really going anywhere as yet. Might head down to Portsea or Bright or maybe the bus to Wollongong so I can see the 12 apostles finally. That is actually sounding more appealing.

Portsea would be good cos I can go horseriding though.  

I have been told at work that I have been accepted into the role in Sydney when it goes - they still haven't sorted out when though. All I know at this stage is they want it in Sydney ASAP....they were looking into systems access last week...that could take a month in itself.....I just wish I knew something official.  They are also sorting out a contract for me. I do not get relocation benefits which is pretty tight of them. I am trying to get a payrise, but not liking my chances too much. 

Anyways, I guess I will hopefully find out something more official when I get back from my holidays. I have some running around to do this week and a friend to catch up with and then the footy on the weekend, so it will probably be me going away just for a couple of days and that is it. Maybe even just a day trip somewhere.....

 

Well, I have applied for a few more jobs at work. I have also asked them to consider letting me go to Sydney with the job if it does end up there.  They still have not made their decision yet which is annoyng because they have had MONTHS and MONTHS. The head dude was meant to come down last Monday to discuss it all and he didn't.

I would love a better paying job. It would make things easier. I can get my own place so much quicker. I am just fed up with the whole "we don't want this role being part of IB" attitude. The TLs are meant to check our work and yet they have no idea what we actually do in the role and they don't WANT to know, which makes me feel like shit because I just get ignored because I am not a CSC on the phones with IB questions and I am not a high and mighty bloody TL. I doesn't help that it is always a mission to find someone to check closures etc. All I ever seem to get told is we don't want the role sitting with us" blah blah blah. For god sake, the role DOES sit with you and you have a responsibility to it, stop your whingeing and be a little pleasant. Take an interest so you can actually do performance reviews accurately.

 

I should here back this week hopefully if I have some interviews......so wish me luck..... 

Ok vent over. 

 

I caught up with a friend I hadn't seen in ages yesterday, which was REALLY good. Felt like old times. We saw the movie Changeling, which was great. Very sombre topic, but great movie. What a woman. I quite like Angelina as an actress too. 

 

 

Am on a holiday in Sydney for a few days....

Was kind of looking to suss out moving up here, but it hasn't really turned into that. I saw a temp agency this morning and it didn't turn out so well because all they had was call centre stuff and I really am hoping to progress away from that. Also not meeting the salary I want (and need to be able to LIVE in Sydney). I did go and see the bank about home loans and found out that I can use the First Home Buyers Grant as part of my deposit, so this means I am literally only a few months away from being able to afford an investment property.  YAY. I would have to live in it myself for 6 to 12 months within a year of buying it though. I am about to turn 30 and considering i am possibly being able to actually afford it THIS YEAR, I am not sure I want to uproot and blow it all on the move interstate, no matter how shit things with family are. I need to develop some interests outside work. Maybe start doing yoga again and atually do boxing or aerobics perhaps....

I am NOT HAPPY at work at all at the moment which is what has sparked the desire to simply just pack up and bugger off. So if anything at least the trip has made me think. I definitely want to move up here, but I think maybe delay it. Buy my investment property live in it for a year and then move...so that means probably by the time I am 32 I will be moving.......hopefully. I could have changed my mind again by then. It may not be ideal, but it is sensible financially.

I will be happy if I find another job period, so I will start looking harder in Melbourne. That being said, the financial crises has dried up the job market a bit.....

 

 

Am in Wellington at the moment visiting a friend from Canada. Have had a pretty relaxing time so far. We went Berry picking today which was cool and to a wildlife sanctuary yesterday. Tomorrow we catch a ferry out of town. Wedding we are both going to is on the 1st, which should be interesting.

The work Christmas Party has been and gone. I had a pretty good night. On the plus side, I got to talk to the guy I like heaps. On the down side, it was mainly about other girls.....so I really don't think he is interested. He did ask me how old I was and tell one of the other women there that I was a fox, at which point I walked off to talk to other people. So I at least know he thinks I am attractive, but I don't think there is anymore to it than that. I can't stop thinking about him though, and this doesn't really happen much with me.

Anyways, other than that we had the usual family christmas lunches. Dad visited me in the morning by himself bc he and his wife were having lunch alone and he didn't want to do anything Christmas Eve.

Can't wait til I have enough money to nove myself up to Sydney either to rent or buy a house.

 

 

Work is really sucking at the moment. People are being let go and our department had a few shocks with the re structure...

Still don't know what's happening with mine yet...I hope it works out ok...but who knows. If I go back on the phones at least I will still have a job to go to. I cannot afford to be out of work. 

One of my friends, wife just back from maternity leave lost her job out of it which is awful.