Being Unemployed
Aug. 17th, 2011 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckycanuckI'm halfway through my first week of being unemployed.
My neck is getting better and I plan to go to the gym this afternoon. At the moment I am back in Canberra in the Dickson public library because our internet at home is very slow. It's being fixed on Friday but in the meantime I have a hard time getting things done. So I decided to get out of the house. I've not been in a public library for a while. The people here right now are not people I have a lot of contact with on a day to day basis. No stabulence, but I get the feeling that some of these people are the kind of people with a lot of time on their hands who like to contact politicians to rant.
I bought stock in ALK yesterday which gives me more exposure to gold and to rare earth minerals with some very promising projects they have. They have experience in gold and a lot of it (about three times the current share price in two major projects according to my research) which is reason enough in itself for me to hold and a promising project they have in rare earths that should give additional revenue.
An agency rang me yesterday with the prospect of a four month job doing a policy review (basically a lot of consultation and pulling other people's ideas together.) It would be a very good opportunity. It's an EL1 level job (Canberra public service jargon is kind of lost on me) and I get the feeling that once I've done one of those I could do more. It would also be a pay rise from Parliament and it would be, as far as I can tell so far, and interesting job. It would certainly be a good job to have in the short term while I figure out what I want to do over the next two years.
I had a couple of swims over the last couple of days. I think a daily swim will be in order everyday I am in Collaroy. I also had my friend Avia over on Monday night and cooked for her after she had a stressful day. I like to help. Also it was good to give me something to do.
In short, so far being unemployed is great. I think I will go to my old office tomorrow.
My neck is getting better and I plan to go to the gym this afternoon. At the moment I am back in Canberra in the Dickson public library because our internet at home is very slow. It's being fixed on Friday but in the meantime I have a hard time getting things done. So I decided to get out of the house. I've not been in a public library for a while. The people here right now are not people I have a lot of contact with on a day to day basis. No stabulence, but I get the feeling that some of these people are the kind of people with a lot of time on their hands who like to contact politicians to rant.
I bought stock in ALK yesterday which gives me more exposure to gold and to rare earth minerals with some very promising projects they have. They have experience in gold and a lot of it (about three times the current share price in two major projects according to my research) which is reason enough in itself for me to hold and a promising project they have in rare earths that should give additional revenue.
An agency rang me yesterday with the prospect of a four month job doing a policy review (basically a lot of consultation and pulling other people's ideas together.) It would be a very good opportunity. It's an EL1 level job (Canberra public service jargon is kind of lost on me) and I get the feeling that once I've done one of those I could do more. It would also be a pay rise from Parliament and it would be, as far as I can tell so far, and interesting job. It would certainly be a good job to have in the short term while I figure out what I want to do over the next two years.
I had a couple of swims over the last couple of days. I think a daily swim will be in order everyday I am in Collaroy. I also had my friend Avia over on Monday night and cooked for her after she had a stressful day. I like to help. Also it was good to give me something to do.
In short, so far being unemployed is great. I think I will go to my old office tomorrow.
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Date: 2011-08-17 12:35 pm (UTC)Mitzi adds ...
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Date: 2011-08-17 09:07 pm (UTC)I forgot to ask the other night - are they going to replace the splitter with a filter, or will you need to do that at the wall? And I've just realised you're going to give me A Look when reading that, so never mind! :o)
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