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bugshaw at 11:10am on 30/09/2008
bugshaw at 11:10am on 30/09/2008And so I begin my lonely life as an Internet Nomad. The tragedy! The bathos! The drama! The sitting in nice cafes while people bring you tea!
The old phone number is deactivated, the new one is not yet activated so I don't even have scope for dialup. I do get a dial tone, but after dialling out 7 or so digits of a number I get an error tone. Ah well, there's plenty of scope for further diagnostics when I get home.
The Job Centre interview was slightly irksome; after 13 weeks your Job Seeker's Agreement is renegotiated and you are to broaden the areas of work you look at, your hours, and travel time. I had two 'job goals', database management and software programmer, but both of these are classified under the same code in the system and I was to choose some more. Technical writer? Same code. Software training? Same code. Software support? Some sort of interface with users and techies? Any of the jobs I've done previously? All the same code. That's a diverse range of skills and experience, but that is not reflected in the code. It's like lumping a whole lot of occupations under a single code of "Lifting stuff" or "Driving things". The nearest related code covers networking/hardware jobs, which I'm no specialist in. We put down Events Management, and I suggested admin but she didn't think I'd want to do that.
Mmmm, tea :-)
The old phone number is deactivated, the new one is not yet activated so I don't even have scope for dialup. I do get a dial tone, but after dialling out 7 or so digits of a number I get an error tone. Ah well, there's plenty of scope for further diagnostics when I get home.
The Job Centre interview was slightly irksome; after 13 weeks your Job Seeker's Agreement is renegotiated and you are to broaden the areas of work you look at, your hours, and travel time. I had two 'job goals', database management and software programmer, but both of these are classified under the same code in the system and I was to choose some more. Technical writer? Same code. Software training? Same code. Software support? Some sort of interface with users and techies? Any of the jobs I've done previously? All the same code. That's a diverse range of skills and experience, but that is not reflected in the code. It's like lumping a whole lot of occupations under a single code of "Lifting stuff" or "Driving things". The nearest related code covers networking/hardware jobs, which I'm no specialist in. We put down Events Management, and I suggested admin but she didn't think I'd want to do that.
Mmmm, tea :-)
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If I get nowhere with the current batch of jobs I will have to share the experience again, by and by...
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Do they actually have codes for those things and they just happen to be the same, or are they saying "not sure what it is... to do with IT... that will be the IT code then"?
That's how it used to be when I was signing, many years ago now though.
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