Archive for the 'Worky Hippy' Category

Oct26

Career advice

“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”
–Drew Carey

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Sep13

Reapplying for my job now

At a good-bye lunch for an old and dear coworker who is leaving
the company due to “downsizing,” our manager spoke up and said,
“This is fun. We should have lunch like this more often.”

If I didn’t do the form well enough…..that could be about me. Not that my manager would ever be that insensitive…..
Yeah, he reads [...]

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Sep15

Post interview come down

It’s amazing how tired you get after a few hours of pure terror.
I always get nervous before interviews, even if I don’t really care about the job. And this one was worse than most ‘cos there were three interviewers!! Most of the talking was done by just one of them though.
Anyways, I don’t reckon I’ve [...]

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Sep14

Why me?

Ok, this sort of stuff only happens to me.
While I was waiting to start this new job, I’d applied for another job (in the same company). I’ve just got an interview! So the last day of my first week, I leave work, go home, get on my interview duds and head into Manchester to face [...]

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Sep11

Survived

Well, I made it through my first day.
It was pretty easy to be honest. But then, first days in a new job usually are. Ask me in a few months - no doubt I’ll hate the sight of Dreamweaver by then…..
To be honest, I’m not that keen on it now.

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Sep8

A techie is not me!

No longer a Tech Help operative, I now walk the lonely road - in Limbo between jobs. Until Monday anyways.
To all the techies and smiley types that know me and read this blog - farewell. I’d like to say it’s been fun working with you, but then I’d also like to say that I’ve just [...]

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About

The Hippy (aka Jim Evans) was born in 1973 and has spent most of his life pushing technology as far as it can go, then giving it another shove to make sure.

He works in a bank writing internal software, runs websites for the fun of it, and campaigns for Greenpeace in his spare time.

This is his blog.