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[marylittlegoth]

After quite a nice weekend, this week at work is shaping up to be rather shit. Thankfully I am working from home Tuesday and Thursday which will allow me to avoid most of the useless crap, service cuts and mindless bureaucracy that are currently making my working life here significantly less than fun. It's still only the people in my immediate office (including my boss thankfully) that make this job tolerable, as I work with really good people. Despite this I think it's time to have another go at looking for something better.

Willing to consider any reasonable jobs going, £18K+ or £22.5K+ in London, ideally PA or admin, ideally not Local Government!!! (unless the money is REALLY good)

The weekend on the other hand was fun. Katie, who was suffering from a nasty allergic reaction to a mouthwash came over Friday and Saturday evenings for Chinese Food, movies, sympathy and the opportunity to beat Jamie with a studded belt (which is an entirely different story, suffice it to say he deserved it probably enjoyed it knowing the bloody minded old goat).

Sunday we went over to Harvey Road to see Rob & Beth and Dean & Inge, with Katie, Kat and Martin, Vince, Karen and Steve were there also, and Caroline subsequently joined us. Much food, a little wine, silly card games and chat ensued and a fun time was had by all.

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[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I'm jobhunting at the moment too, so will keep my eyes peeled for anything suitable.

I can recommend a couple of contacts at agencies to call:

"Becks" at Tobias Recruitment - 020 7493 4993
Clare at Eden Brown - 020 7422 7311

Both have a good mix of corporate and public/charitable sector jobs. Tell 'em I sent you.

[marylittlegoth.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks, that's great. What's your surname, by the way, I'm not sure they'd recognise you as valkyriekaren

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Heh! It's Boyd.

[marylittlegoth.livejournal.com]

Cheers! :)

[nixie-fairy.livejournal.com]

It really is shit at work - not feeling Passionate, Responsive, Inspired, Supported or Motivated at the moment. I am sorry to hear you feel this way too - nevertheless I know you are well respected by you colleagues. What's more the restructuring is being undertaken by collosal old fools that appear to have little clue.
Today was mostly spent making flow charts and gettingmost aspects of our job onto an A4 sheet. Obviously the consulatant they have in to change panels benefits from bright and stimulating pictures!

[greyenglishrain.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the job hunt! I'm currently doing the same thing. :p

[selerox.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the job hunting! There seems to be an awful lot of people who are sick of their jobs right now :( Glad to hear that you folks had a better weekend than we did :)

Also, ouch @ Katie. The perils of staying minty fresh eh? Hope she's back to full strength asap! :)

[shadowstone.livejournal.com]

it was great to see everyone on sunday. I actually do enjoy the odd invasion of people and get a real buzz from doing a mass cook of for them:) i really do need to make plans for this years pre christmas bash :)

[latentexistence.livejournal.com]

Are you doing any fireworks this year?

[evil666overlord.livejournal.com]

I don't know if anything is suitable there or if you even would like to work there but I'd suggest checking out the University's job pages (http://jobs.essex.ac.uk/fe/tpl_essex01.asp) occasionally if you don't already.

There's usually a wide range of positions on offer at reasonable wages.