Ireland, Professional Life, Travel

Friday!

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Oy it’s been a long week – the first 5 day week I’ve had in a while… You get so used to these 4 days or less weeks. Felt kind of light headed yesterday during the day so I contemplated staying at home today, would have been another 4 day week then ;-), but I felt a bit better this morning and since I’m a good girl I went to work (on time, too!).
After lunch we might go to this Billion Dollar Babes sample sale. Depends if my co-worker put me on her invite list on time as she was out yesterday. Not big into designer clothes (because I can’t afford them obviously and I’d rather have 5 nice, cheap tops than 1 nice designer top. But I fear they might have purses there, too. Well, we’ll see if I can go there at all anyways.
Thanks for all your sweet comments on my last post. 🙂 I couldn’t do another internship there, already had that visa. The H1B work visas are all gone for this year (there were about 120.000 applications filed for 60.000 available visas in just the first two days!!) The category for people with higher degrees has filled its cap, too. Sounds like it’s time for the politicians to get their act together and agree on a higher cap – I mean come on, less than 2 days!! So yeah the only way I could go back really would be the frickin green card lottery. *sighs* Oh or I could chat up some desperate, ugly, mean, disgusting American guy and marry him. But uhm no thanks. Not that desperate! 😉
Anyways, one of the days this weekend is going to be just for the diploma thesis (and laundry). Neeeeed to get that done!! The other day I’ll do something touristy. Still so many things to see and so little time left.

Ohhh, just got the confirmation that I got on the guest list so we’ll be heading to that crazy sample sale later on. Oh yeah, my life’s so posh ROFL 😉
Have a good weekend peeps!

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Professional Life

TGIF!

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Finally Friday! I cannot wait to sleep in tomorrow and I’ll be so pissed if I get woken up by either electricity meter or roommates. 😉

I was quite busy this week and actually went to Germany for a night for a job assessment center. I did good but two people were even better so they got the jobs. Fine with me though it’s a pity if you think about the 47,000Euro that I won’t get. But honestly, I hadn’t set my heart to it plus my case study wasn’t great (could have used about 1 more hour of preparation ;-)). Most of you remember how unhappy I was at my last internship and whenever I had visualized walking in these hallways my stomach got all queasy. Of course if they’d had offered me the position, I’d have taken it because it’s great pay, a good company and a good job. Would have never been sure if that was the thing for me. So in a way I’m almost glad that I am free to go and find something really cool and I’ll rub my resume under my old boss’s nose in May, that’s for sure. 🙂 Wish me luck that I find something that really makes me happy because I have no clue what that would be. Arg!

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Professional Life, student

Good Girl

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After more than a month of abstinence, I finally opened my diploma thesis document and I have resolved to work on it all afternoon! Yay me! 🙂 I can’t believe I’m still working on this piece of crap but oh well…. I think I might delete the file called timeplan.xls. 😉

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Health, Ireland, Professional Life

Rain Makes Me Sick

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Yeah, I think the incubation time is over and I’m now with a lovely cold including sore throat, drowsiness, cough and general ill feeling. Thank you bloody rain. Bought some Benylin at the pharmacy here as that was the only thing that has day and night capsules. Let’s see how it works. I just hope being away from Saturday until Monday this weekend will still be great fun!

Well, today was also the day that I had my phone interview for the trainee programm with my company. Good girl that I am, I had thought about some potential questions and good answers to them and had typed those up last night. I had wanted to print them and my resume out this morning before the interview. Well, when I got to the office and turned on my computer, I got an error message and couldn’t log on. Ahhhhhh! They didn’t fix it until a minute before the interview so I was all nerved wrecked. I had emailed the files to my work account but I have it set up so that my private mail is straight forwarded to a seperate folder. Well, I had forgotten that I included my own private email address in that one, too, so the files weren’t in my inbox and then my phone rang. Well, the number I had given them aparently didn’t work so the lady called my German cell and I had to give her my Irish cell number to get going.
The interview itself I think went quite horrible, like I didn’t even mention private labels when she asked about problems with retailers *sighs*. Then I couldn’t come up with good examples of where I had implemented something new or when I motivated people. Bleh. With all that IT and phone stuff going on it almost feels like some higher force wants me to not get this job.

Ugh, I have to do laundry tomorrow so Rich has some clean sheets for the air mattress, which is still inflated BTW so we won’t have to go through this pumping ordeal again. 😉 But I just want to read a bit and then sleep really early so I that this cold will get better or at least not get horrible but it feels like it is going to be one of those royal buggers. :-/

Oh yeah, I’m uploading the Belfast photos as I write this….

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