A quick update on the psychometric testing. Last post’s cartoon was, I thought, a slight exaggeration of the truth for comic effect. Today I got home, euphoric from the successful capture of a three month contract at my former job, to find a package from a government department waiting for me. Inside, a letter informing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’
Truth: stranger than fiction
Posted in Chap, I am a public servant sometimes, Me: shit, unemployment, tagged Chap, I am a public servant sometimes, Me: shit, unemployment on July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tell us about a time when you demonstrated leadership/resolved an issue/improved your knowledge base/went batshit-fucking-crazy
Posted in I am a public servant sometimes, unemployment, tagged I am a public servant sometimes, unemployment on July 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been going to a fair few job interviews. As they have all been for public servant-type roles, they’ve all essentially been the same interview, and anyone who has ever interviewed for a job in the public sector will recognise the standard set of questions they ask, and the jargon in which they ask it. [...]
Motherbitches I am Back
Posted in children's literature, comics, Crafty, criticism, George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, postmodernism!, thesis, unemployment, writers I like, tagged Chap, children's literature, comics, Crafty, criticism, George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, postmodernism!, thesis, unemployment, writers I like on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I finished my thesis, and to prove it here is an allegorical representation of that momentous achievement: By way of explanation I might add that the wee boy who is thrashing me round the ring is a character called Diamond from a George MacDonald book called At the Back of the North Wind. As for [...]
