When my company told me I was no longer useful to them it was quarter past five in the afternoon, and fifteen minutes later I was out of the building with a carrier bag full of my stuff (biscuits mainly). I was on gardening leave!
My initial thought was disappointment that my plans for moving to Bristol or Cardiff were shot to hell now since I’ll never find a job over there within a month. But within hours of putting my CV out for Cambridge/London jobs I’d already got a couple of interviews lined up, and I began to think ‘Cool – a job in no time, and the rest of this gardening leave will be poker, tennis and daytime TV – bring it on!!!’.
However the phone carried on ringing, more telephone interviews, a bunch of coding tests, some face to face interviews and it turned out that this week has been non-stop, stressful, and virtually no poker!
Of course I shouldn’t be complaining, but it’s been really hard work (whiiine) – the coding tests have been quite challenging, phone call quickfire test are hideous etc etc. In fact here’s a coding test I flunked, it was a tricky manipulation of a dataset, followed by just saving the data as comma separated values. The manipulation worked flawlessly, but on my save function they decided to go uberfussy;
for (int i = 0; i < AccumulatedValues.Count(); ++i)
{
ret += AccumulatedValues[i];
if (i < AccumulatedValues.Count() - 1)
{
ret += ”, ”;
}
}
return ret;
FAIL – Should have done;
for (int i = 0; i < AccumulatedValues.Count(); ++i)
{
ret += “,” + AccumulatedValues[i];
}
return ret;
meh. Or at least it would be if I hadn’t spent two hours coding the rest of the fucking thing.
So next week I’ve two interviews with London banks for x2 salaries (whoohoo), plus a decent job in Cambridge, so all looking positive.
On another note got some poker coaching after joining in on this pyramid scheme. A guy called Adam Loeffler (ajloeffl on 2p2) had the honour of going through some HH’s with me, and we did this with a replayer & teamviewer/skype. Turned out to be an awesome session, and I learnt a whole bunch of things. As well as that I’ve definitely squashed my ‘everyone’s bluffing’ chip on my shoulder and my husngs lately have been very controlled. Which of course is showing rewards in terms of winning. I’m up to $5 games off that original $10, and might as well continue to build from that – my old BR can just stay as spendables in my current account since it might come in useful if things don’t pan out jobwise…
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