I'm in!

I promised you guys that I would update my journal with news on how the job interview went. Well, it went alright, but the other candidate proved to be the better choice, according to the temp agency. Needless to say I didn't feel like bringing bad news. I'd gotten even more depressed with Christmas around the corner. Now I have loving family, both on my side and Pauline's side, but Christmas also means companies are not working and therefore not hiring.

I stopped by the temp agency I used to work for 3 years in the past in a neighbouring city a few weeks ago, they directed me to their branch office in the college in that city, they'd seek out a job on a slightly higher level for me. However, the first talks there went horrible and I feared that I had wasted another chance on a good job. Still, they offered to pass on my resume to their office in a city 20 miles away (everything's really cluttered here) because they might have a job for me. A few days later I received a call, I had to fill out an online test form and if I'd done that OK they would recommend me at a large mail ordering company.

Yesterday I went there for a job interview. I didn't expect it to go well. I know they are amazingly strict at companies the size of that one, especially since they hire a bunch of people at once. It turned out to be they were looking for a smaller group of temp workers to have them fill up a space for at least two months and they were convinced that I met every single requirement. Just yet I received a call from the temp agency, notifying me that I'm hired, starting January 8th.

The best thing is that the job isn't necessarily for 2 months. The thing is, right now the team I'll be working with a is stationed at one of the offices of the company, but they will be outsourcing the Customer Support Desk to a 3rd party sometime in March. They are looking to offer as many people as possible from the current team to that company to take over since we will already be acquainted with the procedures, the systems and the job itself. As long as I do my work alright there's a good chance that I'll be among them, I've been told.

So starting January 8th I'll be working 30 hours a week at Customer Support. It's funny that when I started looking for work this was exactly what I was looking for, even though I never expected to land a gig like this the more I got rejected for similar jobs.

The happiest man on Earth (just for the next few days though) wishes all of you a blessed and healthy 2007. That your outlook on the new year may be just as bright as mine currently is.