Update

Ok, very, very brief update.

Ummmm came home from interview convinced I'd totally screwed it up. Yep, you're with me on that one.

Shortly after writing that post I got a phone call... they liked me and could I come in and freelance with them for a week and see how we 'fit'. Yep, sure!

So I go in that afternoon and meet people who are all friendly and really nice, and I remember their names!!, and am thrown into work. I work like a blue arsed fly that's worked all the blue off. Everyone seems happy, I'm happy (if knackered), and at the end of the week I get a "we won't need you next week but we'll talk to your recruiter about possibilities". Ummm ok. No idea what that means, but figure they have others to trial and so be it. That was confirmed by my recruiter, that they had one other person they were also interested in, but that they were keen on me, if not as a permanent, then as a preferred freelancer. To which I pretty much said, thanks but no thanks. I want permanent full time work if I am to work for them. I need a fulltime income, not sporadic overflow work. I'll freelance for them, sure, but it won't work for me to be giving them preference over longer term work elsewhere.

Annnnyway, I get a call from the person who had interviewed me on the Monday and they want me to come in and do some freelance work the following day and to have a chat. I say no can do as I would be waiting for a tradesman to fix a hole in my roof that had led to my hallway doing a very good impersonation of Niagra Falls over the weekend (another story) but if he wanted a chat I was happy to do it over the phone. To which he says that they've employed someone else who will also act as a manager for the department, to free interviewing bloke up on a day-to-day basis.

No probs. I understand these things. Once upon a time I would have taken it really personally and beaten myself up about it and been angry as hell. These days, I just shrug. I'll be in and out of there doing freelance work until something permanent turns up somewhere.

The most disappointing thing is that someone who I absolutely adore working with will be starting there in a month and I would have LOVED to have worked with her. But them's the breaks.

So, nothing ventured, nothing gained, and I'm no worse off than I was before. Plus I got to meet some nice new people.

Now if I could just get these roofing types to fix my roof before it rains hard again!