Friday, May 08, 2009

The best jobs are often the ones you never apply for but you get any way

The possibilities have landed and I'm a very happy girl.

My first bit of good news is I have a new contract for the next month, 3 days a week working in The Parliamentary Triangle as an Internet Assistant, earning significantly more an hour than I was at my my lowly paid casual job with the 42 second commute (much as loved it and hope to go back to it when this contract finishes).

I got offered the Internet Assistant role while I was at The National Folk Festival and randomly bumped into an old client/ candidate. (I seem to have a habit of randomly being offered contracts when wandering round public spaces. I got my last library contract when I bumped into someone at the mall!)

I'll still be working 1 day a week at job #2 (the no longer paying the rent or the food and yay I still have at least one job job mainly because it seems silly to give up a permanent role at this stage. Besides, I still enjoy the work I'm doing there. (And, come to think of it, I was offered at a dinner party. At my place. So the random job offers in public spaces theory isn't quite correct)

And on the other day of the week? I've been offered a 1 year volunteer internship here:which I'm beyond super excited about.

There's more good news. I'll tell you about that next week...

5 comments :

m1k1 said...

YAY

Michelle said...

Awesome! Good things come to good people who wait (and socialise, obviously!)

Very excited about your internship at CraftACT especially!!

missfee said...

great news about your jobs - and say hi to Jas at Craft Act from me.....

JustJess said...

Brilliant! Well done!

Rebecca said...

Congratulations! What wonderful news to receive before you take birthday holiday.