Unemployed no more!

Finally, after a month or four I no longer belong to the lingering crowd of the unemployed, waiting by the phone and searching for yet another job website to try their luck on.

From Thursday onwards I am a happy VIBE vzw-employee (the Flemish Institute for Bio-Ecologic Construction and Living). I will play the role of marketing and communications employee. This means... experience in both fields, a job that connects with my private interests (ecology and living; decoration and stuff), a workplace close to home (a half an hour on the bus) and tching tching :-p Financial independence here I come!

This is an employer I can really go for. It's ethical, it's a bit of an underdog position, it's small and friendly and casual! Down-to-earth people and a messy but cosy office in Berchem.

Now is the time to go buy that nice office plant I've had in mind for some months now! And I can hang my beautiful 'Muscha' (the painter)-calendar next to my desk! Decoration city baby! Nesting has never been so fun.

There are some practicalities that need to be sorted out, though. For instance, my driver's license, which was kindof a prerequisite for the job. I've got the temporal one and I ordered driving lessons, but those are all scheduled in the day time. Might have to be revised... After twenty lessons I'm allowed to test drive by myself... of course if they are willing to wait three months, so am I, because those lessons are all but affordable!

Then there's people to notify! My brain was the first one to be informed. I got the call while I was on the move (typical) and was mentally stunned for like a half hour after the news. I just didn't get what the ramifications were. Still don't fully must admit :-) After that I phoned my parents and grandparents and now I just sent a mail to some friends.

And for the administrative stuff: the RVA (employment agency), child support people etc have to be called, papers have to be drawn up and signed, statusses have to be changed... It'll all be ok. But I will not have full peace of mind until I put my signature on the contract. That's why I'm so glad I can start Thursday already. Luckily I do have one day to get my act together and recuperate from the big news.

Sorry I was quiet for so long. Can't promise to write more frequently seeing as the next couple of weeks are probably gonna be busy busy.

Kinda already had a trip scheduled mid-March... One week in the Ardens in Bois-le-comte, a kind of spiritual resort that houses all kinds of courses for conscious people and serves macrobiotic food, yummy! Curious if they're gonna let me go. Anyway, it's not paid for yet, so no drama there. That's the thing with applying, you live day by day, without certainty, constantly at employers' back and call and with no ability to plan anything. But no more! I am now a respectable member of society ;-)

oxox
me

PS: Thursday's also the first day of my T'ai Chi class. Hope it's gonna be the thing for me!