good things
Feb. 21st, 2014 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedcherubI got a job finally! I was getting increasingly desperate as Adam finishes work on the 28th of February, so I applied for call centre work at like, midnight on Sunday and had 4 calls on the Monday, lol. I kept coming second with the Admin jobs I was after too, it was very frustrating.
Anyway, I have a call centre job with the Department of Immigration, connecting non-English speakers with the government's free translation service. I also got a job with a bank (after the most arduous selection process I've ever had to go through, 4 hours of group interview can go fuck off and die) which I thought would be really good for future prospects, but when the lady came to give me a spiel about how great the job was, it put me right off haha. Plus there were sales targets I needed to reach and no thanks.
The job pays almost 8k more than Adam's job did, but we come out $65 a week less than we have now, because of the cost of transporting me to the city every day for work, as well as our government benefits dropping because I'm earning more, the fact that I cross the threshold for pay and have to start paying my student loans back, and the fact we're putting Toby in care for a day too. However, the job has copious opportunities for overtime as the call centre is on 24/7, so I think I might pick up an extra shift every month and that should take care of it. Adam might also work casually once a fortnight, so financially we're all okay!
I know this is quite crude but I am quite boggled that someone is paying me 54k a year to answer phone calls.
The big downside to the job is that it's only a 12 month contract. A lot of government jobs are, for a myriad of reasons, and usually you'd be able to find another internal job while you're there, but our government has put a freeze on recruiting permanent positions, so it's unlikely. I'll still be looking for a job during this year I think. No big deal, I think 12 months is my limit for call centre work anyway. I think having known name on my resume is going to help.
It's a one hour train commute, but it's okay because it means we don't have to buy another car. I will also get a lot of reading done.
In the next few months I'm going to enroll in an online Diploma of Business Administration and see if that can't help me get an admin job.
I'm hoping that, even though I'm working 9-5, that the job is flexible with me swapping shifts with other people, like I can see myself taking someone's 1-9pm Friday shift occasionally so they can go out at night, and that allows me to see the kids in the morning at whatever activity they're doing.
It's been *such* a stressful time for us, Adam said that since we got through it without fighting even once, we must be able to get through anything! I mean, during the week all the news reports were saying unemployment was at a 10 year high and I just wanted to drown myself. He's been wonderful. We can spend this weekend preparing for his uni studies now, picking subjects and then I've got a week to organise the house ready for handover.
I've been demoralised so often in this process, but I've learnt so much about it, I got exponentially better with interviews as the time went by, I have perfected my resume and I've learnt about me. But while I was dejected, Adam told me that I was so amazing that I could even be the CEO of a multinational company if I wanted, I only lacked the desire. That I had the potential, not that I had to live up to it, I could be someone's Admin assistant for life for all he cared, but that I was capable of so much. And it bowled me right over. I mean, I know Adam loves me, but I often saw it as him loving me because we get along, because he finds me attractive, and I'm a nice person. I never thought he actually admired me in any way? And this idea that I *don't* have to have some high flying job just because I can, is really relieving. The difference between Adam and my parents, I feel.
We haven't told my parents of our plans, btw. They're not going to take it well. What's new.
I'm also relieved because this rate of pay is similar to what I would have earned as a first year teaching graduate (it's less, but not heaps less), so I don't feel so guilty for not finishing my teaching degree now. I feel bad for lying to Adam and what not, but I don't have to feel bad for screwing up my career and the futures of my kids etc etc like my parents were saying.
ONWARDS!
Anyway, I have a call centre job with the Department of Immigration, connecting non-English speakers with the government's free translation service. I also got a job with a bank (after the most arduous selection process I've ever had to go through, 4 hours of group interview can go fuck off and die) which I thought would be really good for future prospects, but when the lady came to give me a spiel about how great the job was, it put me right off haha. Plus there were sales targets I needed to reach and no thanks.
The job pays almost 8k more than Adam's job did, but we come out $65 a week less than we have now, because of the cost of transporting me to the city every day for work, as well as our government benefits dropping because I'm earning more, the fact that I cross the threshold for pay and have to start paying my student loans back, and the fact we're putting Toby in care for a day too. However, the job has copious opportunities for overtime as the call centre is on 24/7, so I think I might pick up an extra shift every month and that should take care of it. Adam might also work casually once a fortnight, so financially we're all okay!
I know this is quite crude but I am quite boggled that someone is paying me 54k a year to answer phone calls.
The big downside to the job is that it's only a 12 month contract. A lot of government jobs are, for a myriad of reasons, and usually you'd be able to find another internal job while you're there, but our government has put a freeze on recruiting permanent positions, so it's unlikely. I'll still be looking for a job during this year I think. No big deal, I think 12 months is my limit for call centre work anyway. I think having known name on my resume is going to help.
It's a one hour train commute, but it's okay because it means we don't have to buy another car. I will also get a lot of reading done.
In the next few months I'm going to enroll in an online Diploma of Business Administration and see if that can't help me get an admin job.
I'm hoping that, even though I'm working 9-5, that the job is flexible with me swapping shifts with other people, like I can see myself taking someone's 1-9pm Friday shift occasionally so they can go out at night, and that allows me to see the kids in the morning at whatever activity they're doing.
It's been *such* a stressful time for us, Adam said that since we got through it without fighting even once, we must be able to get through anything! I mean, during the week all the news reports were saying unemployment was at a 10 year high and I just wanted to drown myself. He's been wonderful. We can spend this weekend preparing for his uni studies now, picking subjects and then I've got a week to organise the house ready for handover.
I've been demoralised so often in this process, but I've learnt so much about it, I got exponentially better with interviews as the time went by, I have perfected my resume and I've learnt about me. But while I was dejected, Adam told me that I was so amazing that I could even be the CEO of a multinational company if I wanted, I only lacked the desire. That I had the potential, not that I had to live up to it, I could be someone's Admin assistant for life for all he cared, but that I was capable of so much. And it bowled me right over. I mean, I know Adam loves me, but I often saw it as him loving me because we get along, because he finds me attractive, and I'm a nice person. I never thought he actually admired me in any way? And this idea that I *don't* have to have some high flying job just because I can, is really relieving. The difference between Adam and my parents, I feel.
We haven't told my parents of our plans, btw. They're not going to take it well. What's new.
I'm also relieved because this rate of pay is similar to what I would have earned as a first year teaching graduate (it's less, but not heaps less), so I don't feel so guilty for not finishing my teaching degree now. I feel bad for lying to Adam and what not, but I don't have to feel bad for screwing up my career and the futures of my kids etc etc like my parents were saying.
ONWARDS!
