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Virtually unemployed

June 21, 2009 on 9:15 pm | In Life In General | No Comments

I got official notice from my boss that my contract will not be renewed when it runs out at the end of July. Which it pretty much fine by me. I don’t blame them a bit. There hasn’t been enough work for 2 data entry clerks there for months. They can’t justify paying for a contract data entry clerk in Edinburgh when the Glasgow office has a bunch of permanent data entry people who have nothing to do. So they made the logical choice and chose not to renew my contract.

So I’m officially looking for work now, even though I’m still working for another 6 weeks. I’m getting closer to finishing my proofreading course. I’m not entirely sure what it’ll accomplish for me, but it will be nice to have a piece of paper confirming that I’m a bit anal retentive.

I’m going to have to be stingy with money for a while until I can find more work. Luckily, I’m pretty good at that. I lived on frozen peas and ramen noodles for several months in Seattle. My cousins are coming over for a visit, but they’re good at living pretty cheap too, so we’ll have a great time regardless.

Anyway, I’m going to bed. Got to get up to go to my truly dead-end job in the morning.

By the way, happy father’s day to all the fathers and stuff. Especially my dad who is pretty cool. He is so cool that Jay Leno wants to hang out with him. Seriously.