Finally I’ve got a job. Well, sort of. I received the news from the recruitment agency yesterday and she promised to call me this morning about when and where to sign the contract. Postponing my errands, I waited for her call today. 11:00 - no call from her; 14:00 - tried to call her mobile and direct number to no avail; 15:00 - repeated previous actions, still no one answered; 16:00 - she picked up. Surprisingly she sounded nervous and stuttered on the phone, unlike the last time I spoke to her when she coached me what (not) to say during the interview and later when giving me the good news. She sounded confident back then. This is not a good sign. The explanation that she gave was that the company’s HR girl was on half-day leave today and most of the managers were gone for holiday. So she couldn’t get the offer letter from them until tuesday when the HR is back in office. Well, at least she could’ve called me, no? What does she think I’m supposed to do on the 9th? Just pop-by in the office and start working without having employment agreement? Free labour for a day? I don’t know who messed up here but in the end we settled on me coming to her office on the 9th first thing in the morning to sign the contract, then off to my new company.
So, have I really got a job?
I decided to skip class today. Since our class size is very small this term, my friend and I promised to let the other know if one is not coming. Obviously this is to avoid being stuck alone in the room with the teacher (it happened to my other classmate once so don’t laugh). I sent her an SMS this morning but she hasn’t replied. Hopefully the telco company doesn’t think that holding everyone’s SMS for few hours today is fun.
But I still have my driving lesson later this afternoon. My 18th lesson. Well well, I’ve certainly come quite far, haven’t I? To be honest I’m start to feel sick of going for the lessons. It’s like neverending story. And I still have 10 modules to go which, for someone with my ability, translates to about 15 more lessons to go *wail* plus the practice while waiting for the next test date which is probably sometime in February or March *writhing on the floor in agony*
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Finally I took a plunge and registered for a jewellery-making trial class. And it turned out that the lady answering my call is Japanese! Oooh … I hope she’s the instructor ‘cos Japanese beads jewelleries are so beautiful. Now I’m getting all excited. Even if it doesn’t lead me anywhere, at least I try.
Finally A received the employment package information for the new job and it is lower than what we expected. Hence the dilemma. On one hand, information received from various sources suggests that the amount is more than enough for a family to survive, some even can do with much less. But on the other hand, our calculation shows that it is only barely enough. And that doesn’t take into account paying our current mortgage to keep the house. So we wondered if we calculated it wrongly? How much do we really need? Although I believe that somehow we will survive, we don’t want to go there just to find out we can’t have decent life. ‘Decent’ doesn’t mean renting lavish apartment and going out for dinner in fancy restaurant every weekend, but rather not having to worry about food and basic necessities and not having to cheat their system (e.g metro, trams) just to squeeze few more dollars.
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Few days ago I had an interview with a recruitment agency for a data analyst position in a foreign MNC. I had no experience in that but the interview sounded promising with the agent saying that the competition should not be that high. If shortlisted, I should have the 1st round of interview by the end of next week.
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All these put me in an uncomfortable situation. At first we thought it would take another 6 months or so to settle all the documents necessary. So I proposed that if I got this job or there’s a promising job opportunity by the end of January, I asked for 1 year to work here for some experience and will only join him after that. So far A didn’t say anything to object this but he also never explicitly agree with it. That makes me a little bit frustrated because the impression that I get is he’s reluctant but doesn’t want to admit it. So far I’ve asked him 3 times and still no definite answer.
However, today we found out that we have to make our decision by the end of next week and it may take only 3 months to settle the documents. That changes everything. Now I have to say no if the agency came back to me and offer an interview because there’s no point going and hoping to get a job if I’ll be leaving in 3 months. But A doesn’t see it that way. To him it’s perfectly ok. He just doesn’t see that it will cause inconvinience for both the company and me. Although relationship between a company and its employees is very mechanical nowadays, I still feel guilty doing that. They will have to start from scratch again finding a new employee, and I also have to face my boss even before the probation period ends. That’s just doesn’t feel right. I can’t even write this employment in my resume.
I know there’s no guarantee that I will even get this job. But I hate to put my hope on something while knowing it will not last. I might as well put my time and energy worrying about something else.
And while I’m writing this, we are nowhere closer to making decision.