Tuesday, September 13, 2005

The Council
I have been given a call back by the Council for this position as an Administration Officer/ Office Wench position. The annoying thing is that there is a different position which I would be better at, but it only just was advertised. I have to go in for an Occupational Test on the computer to assess where I am at. I wonder just how honest to be. I am not really that happy with Customer Service which this other job wouldn't have much of, but the one I went for does. I desperately want to go overseas but am wanting to wait until summer stops before heading to the golden climes of Europe. This position would give me the opportunity to earn money and gain experience for such an adventure. I am also worried about the current crop of elligible young ladies roaming this fair city at the moment. The barren landscape in the easygoing mid 20s is in a state of rapid decline whilst maybe a fresh location would offer fresh opportunities and greener more nourished pastures. I guess I struck this problem in the interview yesterday when asked of long term goals which left me thinking, what are my future goals? A rich uncle needing someone to help dun his sports marketing/ writing business would be the biggest dream. The strangeness of the situation is that I have studied such a variety of subjects, but not really mastered any. My studies in human geography and marketing at University and Journalism at Polytech. My summer holiday jobs have also varied from working for the Invercargill City Council and at the University to cleaning hotel rooms. I also wasted last year as a Night Porter at a hotel and it still leaves me searching for an entry level position all this time, despite finishing studies in 2003.

Should I take this test and tell lies like that I will be at the Council in 30 years and that I love Customer Service? Avoid answering those questions? Or just lie?

2 comments:

Justin said...

we lost 8-4 i think yesterday, its funny when you can have nz and otago reps and then also have people who cant run properly, we were also hindered by that fact of having 8 guys, so good players were only on for 50% of the time.

how'd you go

Scotty said...

What a joke. First of all there was no Field 13 so we ended up walking around and finally our ref came and setup a field. The opposition were useless. They kept dropping the ball and hardly knew how to play. We won about 13 nil and only played for about 15 minutes. By the time we started it was 525 and he tried to call it off early. I came off feeling empty because we didn't even have to work for anything. Initially we thought we would try to hit it up and that sort of thing but people doing that would actually break through and score.

We play Mana tomorrow. It is the usual grudge match which we seem to come out the better.

I know what you are saying. That is why The Chosen Ones have become such a hard to break into team. We realise that 6 guys and 3 girls is the ideal number. When we started there were days when the numbers would balloon to 8 guys, it just isn't worth it. You don't get a chance to build combinations and your performance drops. Everyone comes on for such a limited time, but they feel they need to try outlandish moves once they get their five minutes and it usually never happens, because they try and force it but no one else knows what they are trying. You come off feeling fresh but frustrated at the end of the game.