{"id":259,"date":"2010-01-13T23:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/?p=259"},"modified":"2010-01-28T00:03:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T11:03:10","slug":"wed-13-jan-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Wed 13 Jan 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a phone call from Equinox first thing this morning. Can I come into Wellington for a face-to-face interview over a coffee? &#8220;Well&#8221; I said, &#8220;it&#8217;s an awful long way to come&#8230;.&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ll be there at 2pm!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also got a phone call shortly after from an Agency I&#8217;ve applied for jobs to in the past, but only to get my details and decide to pass onto the Permanent role recruitment bod. Ah well&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Left home in plenty of time for the interview and parked up by the Southern Cross Apartments again as they were the easiest parking space to find (with a coupon anyway).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d forgotten how steep some of the hills in Wellington are! That&#8217;ll be blisters for me by the end of the day. That&#8217;s what dressing in a suit does for you!<\/p>\n<p>Finally found both the building and the guy &#8211; he was actually on a different floor to the one he&#8217;d told me he was on&#8230;&#8230; and we popped next door to a restaurant for a coffee. I did think to say from the start that he really should know that he&#8217;s on the 10th floor, and that the building only has 15 floors &#8211; so telling me he was on the 16th floor wasn&#8217;t a good advertisement. Luckily, I decided that probably wasn&#8217;t a good way to introduce myself!<\/p>\n<p>The interview seemed to go ok, although it was strange because he didn&#8217;t seem to be interviewing me for the advertised systems admin job, but rather as a possible project manager &#8211; weird! It&#8217;s very hard to answer questions in a set direction if you&#8217;re unaware of where the direction is going!!<\/p>\n<p>He left me with a promise that I&#8217;d get another phone call tomorrow from someone else in the company to talk techie.<\/p>\n<p>Managed to get out of Wellington before rush hour and headed home.<\/p>\n<p>Popped out about 8pm to the cashpoint to get some more bike money out ready for the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a phone call from Equinox first thing this morning. Can I come into Wellington for a face-to-face interview over a coffee? &#8220;Well&#8221; I said, &#8220;it&#8217;s an awful long way to come&#8230;.&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ll be there at 2pm!&#8221; Also got a phone call shortly after from an Agency I&#8217;ve applied for jobs to in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emigrating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}