After six months of signing on...

[queenbarwench]

I CAN HAZ A JOB!!!!

It's about bloody time. It's an agency placement so I'm technically working for Adecco while I work at Proctor & Gamble. It's a year's maternity cover co-ordinating an overseas training programme. My job title is "Administration Assistant", which is a bit rubbish, but it's all good experience and CV-able. It's 4 days/week and pays enough to cover the bills, so I can finish my driving lessons without changing instructor. And hopefully the recession will be mostly over before this time next year.

The commute is going to be a bitch. On Google maps it's pretty much a straight line East from my house and, driving the route on my last lesson, takes about 25 mins off-peak (The messiest bit is the Gosforth High Street wiggle. There's never a good time of day for those junctions). But no bus runs that route! So I can take a bus from outside my house (through the Gosforth High Street wiggle) to South Gosforth, then the Metro and then a 15 min walk. Or I can walk 15 mins in the wrong direction, get on the Metro, still have to change at S. Gosforth and a 15 min walk at the end.

I time-trialled the bus-metro-walk route at 50 mins (off-peak). I need to try the walk-metro-metro-walk route this afternoon to see if it's better. I guess I won't know until I see how slow the bus is in the rush hour. The bus only runs every half hour, so if I miss it I'm stuffed. *bites nails*

Comments

[pionie]

Congratulations! How cool, and it even sounds quite interesting :) Hope the commute works out ok.

[queenbarwench]

Commute is not too bad so far. Job is... well, see next post (when I've written it, that is)!

[spiderwoman]

Ick, that commute sounds brutal. At one point, I lived on the West end of the city and worked in the East end... it took me an hour to get to work by bus in the morning, but it took an hour and a half to get home in the evenings because of transfers and stuff. Wasn't very pleasant.

But congrats on getting a job finally! I've done agency stuff and it can be a real life saver. Hopefully you like the work. :)

[queenbarwench]

Commute is working out ok so far. I get in nice and early which means I can leave early. The route home can be a little variable, depending on how the buses and the traffic are. I've spent a bit of time hanging about at the bus stop because I've just missed one or it's late. But it matters less on the way home :)