I’ve just heard back about a job I applied for.  It was something that I had wanted to do for a while, I reckoned I had enough relative experience and got through the first round of interviews and had my second yesterday.  It seemed to go well, I didn’t stumble or fall at any of the questions asked but just before 6pm this afternoon I got the call that I didn’t get it.  Gutted.

Oh well, sometimes that’s the way it goes.  Thing is, with no current job, finances are tight.  And it looks like I’ll have to bite that old ‘follow the money’ bullet and apply for any old shit.  The thing is that I’ve done that for years and always ended up in companies that tended to treat their employees poorly (even if they didn’t think so themselves) and have hated doing the same repetitive crap for people who wouldn’t know how to manage their own shoelaces.  My last two jobs, Whiteinch Church of Scotland and Scottish Power, are prime examples of that.

So, is that just what we have to do to get by?  I know the old saying ‘you work to live not live to work’ has a lot of weight but surely if we have to do something that takes up approx. 40 of our waking hours in a week that it’s important to find something that doesn’t suck completely.

Perhaps I’m just expecting too much.  I have a beautiful wife and daughter and I love them both very much.  I have a group of very good friends who I don’t see enough of.  Perhaps doing a crappy job with disrespectful and critical assholes is just the way of it.

- Alistair

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