Interview

Luckily for me I'd arranged this job interview for 7pm this evening, so that gives me more than enough time to chill out and relax a bit after my more than manic past couple of days.

I do a few things, like fill in another application form for a job and drop it down to the surgery in person, they'd posted the form out while I was away and didn't want to delay any further it getting back to them by relying on Royal Mail.

But sure as eggs is eggs time creeps up quickly enough that I need to get my arse into gear and leave the house and head off for my interview.

The first hurdle is to get through the traffic, it's jammed and a result of which I can see that there is no way I'm going to make it to the interview on time. So I ring the surgery and tell them I'm going to be late which they were very understanding about, and I arrive about 10 minutes late.

The interview was interesting, well, it wasn't really an interview but we did lots of chatting about digital photography, the dubiousness of "LOVEFiLM" (ie. a company I worked for previously) in relation to the name (it appears the vet thought it was a porn site!), planes and also a bit about the job.

It appears that it wouldn't be an official training job and so wouldn't lead to any qualifications as such, but as you might imagine plenty of on the job experience. The hours would be ok, except I'd have to stay overnight at the surgery one night in so many to cover 24 hour on call service, but roughly would be 8.30 - 5.30 or 10 - 7 (which might be better for me in terms of traffic). Pay was roughly covered and while it's not brilliant it's better than the average guide range I'd read about because of my age. I also got a quick tour of the surgery, they have a lot of capacity to look after many animals and also specialise in eye surgery (cataracts and the like).

So at the end we decided that it would be a good idea for me to do a couple of trial days in a fortnight to see if it's what I expected, which I think is a good idea, after all, I might hate it. Then again, I might love it. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Posted by Abi on the May 19, 2006 9:34 PM