From: j4	Date: October 14th, 2003 08:19 am (UTC)		(Link)

Oh, you said you were feeling ill. Though I knew at least part of that was likely to be stress. :-(

*hugs*

	From: j4	Date: October 14th, 2003 08:32 am (UTC)		(Link)

Did I?

Well, you said:

"Interview overw i'm going home for a lie down - don't feel well, slept badly too..."

Anyway, I hope you're feeling better now.

	From: j4	Date: October 15th, 2003 05:59 am (UTC)		(Link)

I always need a deadline for tidying

Well, hoiho coming back to Cambridge was a sort-of deadline, like tidying up when I'm expecting visitors. Even though I tend to visit him instead of vice versa. But generally the thing that motivates me to tidy is realising that I've forgotten what colour the carpet is. That, and the inch-thick layers of dust on things. :-}

Volunteering: sounds like fun. Have you, er, thought about working in a bookshop or library?

Oh, I've done quite a lot of library work and enjoyed it, I'd gladly do that again if I could get paid a reasonable wage for it, but I don't really want to have to take a year out to do the library Masters course (because it costs money, is dull, and would involve me moving to somewhere other than Cambridge for a year) and without that there's a limit to what I can get paid as a librarian. Bookshops -- I don't really want to work in the commercial sector, to be honest. If I could get a paid job in a charity bookshop that'd be great, but it's unlikely (I think they pay their managers etc. but I don't want to be a manager!).

I want to do something that does some good for people. I suppose it does people good being able to buy things they want ... but on that basis I could rationalise anything as "doing good for people", including, I dunno, being a drug dealer. I think I want to be a bit closer to doing things that I believe to be "worthwhile". That sounds awfully woolly and teenagerish, doesn't it? "I want to help people." But in the absence of a real career direction, that's about the most I can narrow down what I want to do.

Hoiho: I think you've just explained why I didn't get any contact about dropping in on his way south!

Oh? I don't know why he didn't contact you; I expressed surprise that he hadn't gone to see you on the way back down, and he just said "I didn't say I would." <shrug> <sigh> The inscrutability of men, eh?

	From: k425	Date: October 16th, 2003 04:09 am (UTC)		(Link)

Inch-thick layers of dust: vacuuming is good for this. Well, it's how I deal with it, anyway. When I finally decide I've had enough of it, that is.

Mum was a library assistant for years - not incredibly well-paid but no training required! Is there anywhere you can get proper careers advice? I know there's something out there with your name on it, but have no idea what it is.

Hoiho: He's right, he didn't say he would. He said he'd "like to" and he "may well do so". I shouldn't have expected a reply to my SMS asking whether we should be expecting him...