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i'll just sit around the house and resist

  • Nov. 21st, 2007 at 7:50 PM
lion, ivoted, me, sadie
("Least Complicated", Indigo Girls)


I am at =skip 360 or something. It is going to take me more than a week to catch up on my week of no reading. At least I finished The Golden Compass, the first book in the His Dark Materials trilogy--I think that took me around six months, what with losing it, finding it, loaning it out to someone else, losing it again and finally finding it again. I went to the library tonight and got the second book, which should (this is the hope) force me to finish it in at least a month. I don't know why things were so slow going with that book.

And I better get in plenty of reading in the next several days, because I might have a job starting Monday. Well, I definitely have a temp job starting Monday; whether it turns into a permanent position is up to me and my (potential) future employer. I didn't think I wanted to go back to work just yet, but I really liked both people I interviewed with on Monday, really liked the company and (quite importantly) really liked the salary. So I agreed to temp for at least a week and see how it goes.

I've never done the temp-to-perm, test period thing before, and I feel a little bothered by it (but not much). It's one thing to have an evaluation period (which I've also never had), I suppose--another entirely to start out on this "we'll see" level. However, like I said--I'm not sure that I want to go back to work, either, so it gives me a chance to evaluate the position without a huge commitment, too.

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[info]aoneal79 wrote:
Nov. 22nd, 2007 05:11 am (UTC)
I see the temp-to-perm thing as honest. When people are hired at Antioch there's a 90 day evaluation period - so even though it's not specifically temp-to-perm, essentially it is. And really, all jobs involve an evaluation period, unspoken or not.

Anyway, I'm excited for you about the prospect. I must hear more. Over chicken makhani, preferably.
[info]huehau wrote:
Nov. 22nd, 2007 05:35 pm (UTC)
I have no idea how you managed to not read anything for a week.
[info]k_rock wrote:
Nov. 23rd, 2007 07:46 pm (UTC)
omg, i so have to tell you about the golden compass...