Work life... When will it begin?

Hello...

I'm sitting here working hard (or hardly working?) on my thesis and I have finally started to see the end... (Yeah right!) It feels as though I soon will be ready to send the first rough copy to my company for them to read it and comment on it... I'm actually dreading the day I get it back from them... Self esteem issues? Me? Noooo...

Anyway... As you know, I'm currently searching high and low (well not that low) for a job opening in my field and preferably in the near geographical region... And as you might know, I have had a bunch of interviews for three companies that were all very interesting and also interested in me. I received an offer from one of them last Monday, but on Wednesday I turned them down... I feel like such a spoiled brat, 'cause I turned them down on the account of a bad offer. And I didn't give them that reason. Instead I told them that I had received an offer from another company and that the job description there was slightly more interesting. This was not entirely truthful, but hopefully they will never know. They offered me 18% less than I demanded a month, so I still fell that I did the right thing.

Unfortunately, on Tuesday of last week, the company that had the most interesting job opportunity called me at around 7 p.m. and kindly turned me down... ); They were however very nice and the guy who had interviewed me told me that he thought that I had been a very good subject and that he hoped that he would see another application from me in the future. So why did they turn me down? Well... Lack of experience. The guy they went for in the end had already worked for five years within the company and they felt that they needed to take care of his experience. The fun thing was that this was an internal recruitment and out of 18 people applying for the position, I was the only external applicant. And I was so close. I was the last to be cut from the recruiting process, so I still feel very good about that. Yay me! ;D

And the third? Well I was there for a third interview last Thursday to meet the team in which I might work. I still haven't found out. We are (as far as I know) still two applicants competing for this position so now I'm sitting here, a nervous wreck. Oh can they please just give me a call? I don't even care if I get the job anymore; I just want to know... Well that's a lie... Of course I want the job! I applied for it, didn't I?

So, that's what's been up... I better get back to my (very) nervous writing now...

Ciao!

SOF and bigger adventures

I had me such a great time this weekend. As I told you all in an earlier post, I went back to my "old" university town for an amazing little party called SOF (Student Orchestra Festival) that draws a couple of thousand students from Europe who likes to drink beer and listen to student orchestras...

For me it has a lot to do with meeting my old friends who organised the festival four years ago with me, our predecessors and the wee ones who came after us... ;D Little did I know when I left on Friday that I had missed them all this much and that it would be this much fun... I had a smashing time! And I also realised (since I am searching for a job) that it was great time to network with people... So I basically had a good time and re-connected with people who might be able to sort me out with a first step in my career...

My Friday was a bit hectic though... I had booked a ticket to leave Lund at 14:28 but first I had an interview at Kastrup at 10 o'clock. I thought it would take about an hour as interviews normally do, but I left the office at Kastrup at 11:45, slightly panic stricken... Would I make it on time? Would I have time to eat lunch? Yes and no. I did make the train, but I didn't get to eat until I was on the train... But all in all, despite the stress on Friday, I had one of the best weekends in a while...

So my little panic on Friday... Is that really such a big deal? I stumbled over another blog just as I was going to write this post. It's this woman, Samantha Larson, who did Everest this year... Now that might lead to things to panic about! Check her blog out at http://samanthalarson.blogspot.com/. It's worth it!

Another adventure (I'm a bit of a sucker for adventures and adrenaline filled sports) that I also would like to recommend is Ewan McGregor's and Charley Boorman's new epic adventure "The long way down". The two actors did a trip around the world on the back of motorcycles in 2004, going east from London to New York through Europe, central Asia, and Siberia and of course North America. It must have been quite a trip, or at least it seems to have been when you read the book or look at the DVD. Any who... I would like to promote their latest adventure, and you can find more on the trip at www.longwaydown.com and also at www.bbc.co.uk/longwaydown. Check it out, and enjoy the trip with them.

So maybe (hopefully) my next adventure will be more like one of the ones mentioned above... I think I would like that... ;D

Cheers!

Phew...

So! A quick little update, far earlier than I had planned...

I went running yesterday evening... This was the first time I exercised in over one year! And I realised that even though round is a shape, I'm out of it... My lovely Christina forced me out in the track and we took one lap around the park here in Lund... I was literally beaten by it and we went slowly homewards after that... When I had the brilliant idea to run a bit more, even though I was as tired as one man can be... But we went for another run, just a couple of blocks close by our apartment... It was mortifying but good... After that a couple of stomach crunches and push-ups and some stretching... Needless to say, I fell asleep like a log after that. I'm a little sore today, but the worst will come tomorrow... And tomorrow it's time again for another session... ;D

Peace out!

/a beaten and sore Matsey

Time for another post I believe... (Long overdue!)

Servus! (That's hello my friend in Austrian... ;D)

So it's been a while since I updated my blog. My last post told you about having my girlfriends' family coming to stay with us, and they were here and it was fun... We drank alot of wine, hung out, went sight-seeing in our new home region but most interesting of all we went to Copenhagen to be tourists there. It's only about an hours travel by train from here, and it's quite a different feeling to it. It feels more... International or continental if you please... I can really recommend a trip to Copenhagen if you are close by (that's not a prerequisite, just go there!) as it is really nice.

We went on a canal tour when we were there, and that was money well spent. We got to see the major sites of the town and it was nice not having to walk the entire day... ;D Below is a little picture from Nyhavn (New harbour) taken from the canal boat... It had a very nice atmosphere, it was nice and warm and people were drinking beer and enjoying themselves.
















So what else is new? My report still isn't finished but I am writing on it as we speak... Or at least as I post here... I'm multi-tasking! ;D But it's been so-so with the progress of my beloved thesis... [insert roll-eyes smilie here] At least I'm trying my best at the moment...

And on the job front? Much better than the thesis front! As I have written earlier, I went to three interviews in a week... Since then I have gone to an interview for a fourth job. And here's the kicker; I have been called back for a second interview for all these jobs! So at the moment I'm still in the running for no less then four jobs!!! I love Skåne and the work climate here... ;D I do however keep telling myself that I shouldn't get my hopes up to much, but as long as I haven't heard anything to contradict it, I'll keep believing that I am about to be employed by some company... ;D

So that is pretty much what's been up... Touristing, writing and being interviewed... This week I'm going to interview 2 on the big transport company located at Kastrup, and after that I'm heading up to Linköping/Norrköping for the bi-annual Student Orchestra Festival (SOF) that I helped arranging four years ago... Beer, friends and crazy student orchestras... Sounds like a nice weekend to me... ;D Unfortunately my better half (yeah, my girlfriend) can't come with me, her company is going to a conferance in Greece... I'm not jelaous... I will ofcourse update next week again don't hold your breath) after the festival...

Until I post again,