Monthly Archive for November, 2006

my new job - pedro the house boy

the week before thanksgiving i could tell that something was up at work, so the day before i confronted the ceo who offered “you should be looking”.

happy holidays - enjoy your turkey.

today they let the entire client dev team (including me) go. vp on down. they are moving the work out of the country. i’ll admit that i was surprised - but i probably shouldn’t have been.

so my current job title is house boy - catering to the every need of my sugar momma.

the timing is quite poor. firstly if i were going to have some time off the dead of winter would not be my first choice (i’ve always wanted to do the long trail end-to-end for example). and more importantly our nz plans make it much more complicated. since we are applying under the skilled migrant category it would make things much easier if i were employed. it is not crystal clear what the requirements are and if this will have any impact. and putting the application aside my plan was to keep working until our application was approved and then take some time to relax and deal with all the logistics. since we haven’t even submitted yet approval could still be up to 10 months away. so do i try and find some short term gig? do i find another full time position and just bag when the approval comes through? no clear answer yet.

5 boxes ticked, $28.33 spent

saturday morning went on a road trip with the jboss to one of the few notary public’s who has weekend hours so we could get certified copies of our passpost and diplomas. this lets us check off 5 items on the application to-do list. at $5 per certification plus a few bucks for the colour copies the tally was $28.33. just a blip in the big picture.

[UPDATE - we (me) did the copes wrong so we have to do them again. sigh]

our tally so far:

  • certified copies $28.33
  • fbi raps sheets 2*$18 + $9.95 for express mail
  • medical $20 (the bargain so far)
  • passport size photos $9 + $18.95 + $18.95
  • marriage certificate $14
  • bu transcript $5
  • case transcript $7
  • eoi application fee $201

no, you don’t glow in the dark

after a chest xray that is.

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