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Mr Cranky Pants

caldrail

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Yep, thats me. Mr Cranky Pants

 

My new neighbours keep locking the outside door and leave me struggling to get in and out of my own home. They keep starting to play loud music and I've got a sore foot banging on the floor. I keep applying for jobs but Swindon employers have recently had lobotomies so they can't understand their own recruitment procedures. The Saturday night Town Cryer Association is still in business and vocal in the early hours. My car is starting to look a little weather worn and dishevelled. Doesn't matter, I am too. I think I'm going to end up looking like Tom Hanks in Marooned.

 

Ahh, Mr Caldrail, thank you turning up to this interview. A banana? No?, well, lets begin. So... How long have you been a part of western civilisation?... I see, and you have your own cave?... Excellent....

 

So, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to buy a pair of garden shears...

 

Positive Moment of the Week

The lady at the employment office was impressed. No, really, she was. You've been busy She said with raised eyebrows as my jobsearch logs tumble onto her desk. Oh yes, its a great feeling, watching her totally unable to question my existence as a dole seeker and forced by circumstance to get me to sign on for another fortnight.

 

But thats not really positive enough is it?

 

Ok, after I left my house a few days back, a passing lady asked if this was the road she was looking for. I said, yes, it is. She went away happy, I went about my business content in the knowledge that she hasn't become lost in the rainforests of Darkest Wiltshire. What a nice day.

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caldrail

Ah yes.. Luck... But isn't it true you make your own? So, in true romanesque fashion, I shall have the slaves copy my Curriculum Vitae and distribute copies to all merchants and societae. Think it might be as well if I don't daub grafitti on my rivals homes however....

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docoflove1974
Ah yes.. Luck... But isn't it true you make your own?

 

Is that so? Damn, no wonder...Lazy Ass me has been going about this the wrong way...I thought it was Opportunity that has to present itself...but you must recognize it and make of it what you will. Well, back to the drawing board....

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caldrail

:D

 

Well, if my experience of the music industry is anything to go by, then opportunities can be created by yourself as well as others. Its about knocking on the right door and being in the right place at the right time. We even once dragged some music executive out of a nightclub for an impromptu sales pitch on the sreet.

 

Ok, that didn't work...

 

But getting yourself in front of an employer to give him your sales pitch can make a difference. Word of mouth. The chap you spoke might not have a vacancy for you but then perhaps someone he knows does. Then its a matter of making the right impression.

 

So far though, I'm not desperate enough to wander up and down the street with a sandwich board saying "Gizza Job". Even if some employers think I am. No, that comes later, when the employment agency decide I'm a useless drain on society and attempt to persuade me that rubbish collection is an interesting and worthwhile career move.

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docoflove1974
:D

 

But getting yourself in front of an employer to give him your sales pitch can make a difference. Word of mouth. The chap you spoke might not have a vacancy for you but then perhaps someone he knows does. Then its a matter of making the right impression.

 

There are times I wish the academic world worked in the same way. Like, oh, now.

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