A long (good) Friday!

I've been running like a headless chicken around Athens today - I took a day off work - and still haven't finished all the jobs I had.

The most important part of the day was my job interview, and what an experience it was!

Knowing the traffic in and around the town, I decided to leave home two hours ahead of the meeting. What a wise decision that proved to be!!

To kick things off, there was a car crash on the road and four lanes of traffic converged into two. Resulting tailback, about thirty minutes. No worries! Still had time to get there with a few minutes to spare. Right? Well, that would have been the case if the guy's assistant had given me the right directions!

I asked virtually everybody owning a corner shop for about five kilometers, I sweated, I smoked, I got stressed and frustrated, I phoned her (without any reply!), but managed to get there with five minutes to spare.

Removed my red cape and blue uniform, changed into my newly bought suit, and went ahead with the interview.

One hour and forty five minutes it lasted. I covered every detail of my life and career to date. It never ceases to amaze me how obscure details about the past come into my mind in situations like these. Overall, I think it went well. We'll wait and see!


Fifty minutes later I was back at home, sweating like a pig (it's 36 degrees outside and about fifty in my house), jumped into the shower and off to the gym! (I know the sequence is not the logical one, but what the heck!).


Now I'm back home, having showered for the third time today, AC on, and posting, before I go out to dinner with my uncle's wife who's visiting from Taiwan.


I desperately need a drink!

Jobsearch

Looking back at the past four years, when I returned to Greece, I have realised that I've become Mr. Jobsearch. I know that "practice makes perfect", but this is bordering the ridiculous!

I have read almost everything that was ever written on the subject, have prepared thousands of cover letters, have prepared numerous CVs and Resumes, have had interviews with almost all of the recruitment agencies, and obviously have made hundreds of job applications and interviews.

Interviews with directors, personnel execs, section managers, male, female, group interviews, aptitude tests, presentations, case studies, "what if" scenarios. You name it, I've done it! I've even had an interview in an office, just following their lunchtime do, and the guy was fumbling for his papers among the dishes and left-overs. (Perhaps I should have accepted their offer...HaHaHa).

The hard fact remains that our great country does not produce shit!

I am a production person, and there simply isn't that much production going on in the country. We have become a nation focused providing services. Tourism, Banking, Logistics, Transportation and things like that. I am currently in the logistics field and I'm desperately seeking an escape.

What really pisses me off, though, is that the last three job offers I had last year were for work in Nigeria. Give me a break! I just returned from there!

Anyhow, I have an interview this Friday, with what seems to be a good company, for a position that sounds right up my street. Who knows! This may be the break I'm looking for!!!

The following is something to keep up my spirits: