Blog2020 ≫ I was looking for a job, and then I found a job (2020)

I just signed the new contract so I can announce it here at last, I'm starting at Tesco on 2nd November. Yes, shelf stacking or trolley collecting I'm sure you are thinking, but no, I will still be a software engineer. I'll be going back to Farringdon, a few days a week anyway, lockdown permitting. I wonder if it has changed much since I last worked there? I was there for a while with Channelfly. This was the very spot from which I was abducted for my stag do, and also the neighbourhood where we got the engagement ring and our wedding rings, so many happy memories of there. It's one stop from St Pancras so should be no problem commuting these days, and I have already discussed the costs. I do still have the problem of how to get thing two to school on time but we'll deal with that when we absolutely have to.

I got this job through hired.com1. I didn't actually apply for any jobs, just uploaded my details and this one applied to me. I admit I uploaded my details here precisely because another friend had found the Tesco job this way, so I sort of did apply. I have been offered other interviews with other companies during this process. If you sign up for hired.com here1 and you land a job that way, then I earn a bounty. I earned aforementioned friend some money this way, and he did the same for another friend. Let's keep this conga of cash going, join up now1.

I picked the start date to time with being paid off by Holiday Extras. So that final Friday in October will be a good pay day (pay in lieu of notice plus redundancy) and then the following Monday I start the new job.

I used this headline before, nearly fourteen years ago...

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Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe in Kent. Married to Clare + father to two, I am a full stack web engineer, and I do js / nodejs, some ruby, other languages ect ect. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home-automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, family tree stuff, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.