Weekend

Not really sure what happened to the weekend it seams to of disappeared somewhere and not really sure what I've done.

I had a good night on Saturday, me and Jay my best mate went to a Surprise party for Nigel Wright (the friend we went to watch box). I wasn't really looking forward to it to be honest as don't really know any of the others, but it turned out to be a good laugh. We were there for over 4 hours then we all came back to Crook and went in Bar 56, I ended up talking to a lass I snogged on New Years. She is one of my friends aunt's and no she isn't as old as that makes her sound.

Anyway was talking to her and she asked how I was getting on with my girlfriend as she saw me out with Kelly about 2 months ago. I told her I had split up, she ended up saying she wish she had known 2 weeks ago and she wouldn't of gone out with the bloke she was now seeing. Then she ended up saying she would see me in a couple of weeks when she had split up with him, not sure if I stood there in disbelief for a second. Then said I would see her later and wandered off to find Jay. Some strange people about, saying that she is good looking and a laugh but think I should walk away from this before anything happens. The mate who's auntie she is had a face like a stunned mullet when he saw me snogging her on New Years, saying that we do call him "The mullet" but because of his hair though!

I seam to of spent the rest of the weekend either sleeping or talking to Angelika, she is talking about coming over soon to meet me.

I also did do some work on my website but I have loads to do just never seam to have any spare time.

When I was out on Saturday got talking to Jay about houses, he is wanting to get his own place as well. When he said that I was thinking oh no he is gonna he wanting the same house I've been waiting for but luckily he said he was looking to buy one up near where his brother lives. He was reckoning the house I'm waiting for will go for £80,000 if it does there is no way I can get a mortgage anywhere near that price on my wage. I don't think he is right though but we will see.

I downloaded the application pack for the job at Wear Valley Council it sounds quite interesting, its nearly £5,000 more money even if you start at the bottom of the salary scale. There setup is very similar to current job except they don't use Citrix just Win2000 server and clients, they also have about 330 staff and use Lotus Notes. Couldn't believe it when I read it was so similar.
I will have a proper read of the form over the next few days and may well complete it. Even if I decide I don't want to go for it, it could still be good to apply to see if I get a response or not. Only reason I wouldn't want to leave my current job is because I have have made some good friends and know just about everyone but just cant honestly see any future in my current job. No career path in IT unless I want to sit and wait for god knows how many years and then even then there is still might be nothing at the end of it.

There was talk last year that IT was gonna get outsourced and we would be taken on by whoever won the contract, our ACO and some of the other staff were talking like this was a bad thing. I don't think it was we would of had better job prospects if we had been kept on and we wouldn't of been doing a lot of the work that we are now being given as it wouldn't be our jobs. This never happened though due to the merging of services. Our ACO spoke to me and said she was happy to tell me that everything would stay as it was, I think I smiled at the time and said good but I really thought was "bollocks!". At least then we would of known where we stood rather than an air of uncertainty hanging over us. We did get sent to a conference at Sedgefield but this didn't exactly make anything any clearer. Yes he said they wanted to retain IT staff but the time scales weren't realistic this was very clear to me not that anyone else mentioned it. They still had no idea what was gonna happen in the end, it was all just what they think they would like to do with very little clear plan in relation to staffing. 1st time I've really thought about the future in my job properly, maybe I just answered my own question!