From Ware to Calgary
• Tuesday 23 September 2008 - Half way through job hunting trip
| After a week here in sunny Calgary I have had two agent meeting and one job interview. All went very well especially the job interview. It was for an oil company located in the down town area. No matter how early I get to an interview I always seem to end up rushing. I was there one hour before the meeting, found the office block and decided to go for a walk around. Being very warm I decided to go into Plus 15 shopping area. This is a large shopping area linked at the first floor (or do Canadians say second?) so you are 15 feet above ground level. The shops are linked via walkways so you don’t have to venture out in the cold during winter I suppose. Now that sounds a great idea and I suppose not freezing your nads off at -30 is a good thing. The tricky thing is +15 exists in a different dimension to the rest of the know universe. You go up some stairs walk past some shops, down some stairs and expect to be just down the street from where you entered. No chance. You’re lucky if you’re still in Alberta. Now Tim Hortons is a national intuition in Canada. It’s a coffee house that does breakfasts, do-nuts etc. It’s miles better that Star-yucks or McNastys. And you get a sense of supporting Canada by shopping there. So where the hell are they!? To my shame I gave up looking and went to Star-yucks and had a milky milk milk with extra milk and more milk. Was there a single molecule of coffee in that cup? By now I’m not sure where the office was and the interview was in 5 mins. Ahhggggg! More by luck than judgement I found my self on the right street and not far from office. Actually I should have been miles away but wasn’t, see, different dimension eh! Those scientists in Switzerland should come to Calgary, save billions. So I got to the interview not too flustered or sweaty. The Interviewers (three of ‘em there wos) were friendly and chatty. It went on for about 1 hour 20 mins and went great. I got a call from the agent, they want me to do a modelling exercise (data modelling, not fashion, I haven’t got the legs for that anymore) and want to see me again next Friday! Cool or what, crickey this could really happen! Also the other agent has arranged an interview with another company tomorrow. My biggest fear about this trip was I would be sitting around on my backside for two weeks getting knocked back, well that’s not happened! Fingers crossed for the rest of the week, well not actually crossed all week, that would hurt, and look stupid in interviews. One thing I missed in my last entry. My BiL and I had to go to a hardware store (oooooh how N. American) and buy some nuts and bolts for the BBQ. My BiL says, "We need Number 10 by 24" (meaning the diameter and threads per inch). “How long do you want them?” says the aged assistant. “Well we’d actually to keep them permanently”, I said. “Eh? Oh no, I mean what length do you want.” Wasted! SM |
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• Tuesday 23 September 2008 - Untitled Comment