In a sequel to “The 10 Minute Job” I present to you, the 5 Minute Job.

Went for my Jobsearch appointment at 11:00am, got there… Computers are down and my advisor is off. 11:05am, I’m out the door.

Should get an email with my next appointment, but I’m betting its either a letter or a phone call.

So, until next time.

I should have wrote this on Monday, but I didn’t. I should have wrote this on Tuesday, but I didn’t. I should have wrote… well, you get the idea.

Yeah, I forgot the Appointment I had on Monday, the reason… I, for some stupid reason, thought that it was on Tuesday and NOT Monday, even though I had it in my calendar for Monday and it was written on here for Monday.

There was no malaise in me not turning up, I just had my head up my arse all weekend and just really though it was for Tuesday and not Monday.

I don’t know, it happens I guess. Next appointment is Monday 4th March, I wont forget this one.

I was 10minutes late for my appointment today, thanks to Stagecoach Hartlepool, bus was 10-15minutes late, and 3 came along at once. But, I didn’t really need to worry, because my advisor forgot he booked me in for today.

It wasn’t much of an appointment, sat in-front of a computer, printed off a few admin jobs that I might have a chance of doing (bet you never heard of an administrator who has a phobia of phones [Telephonophobia], have you).

After I had a look, I sat with my advisor, who looked through them and highlighted the key points and printed off a couple more. There is one, massive, huge problem with most of these jobs, there Temporary Contracts, anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months. Yes, it adds to my CV, but, do I really want to be going from Temp Job to Temp Job, not really.

That’s all there is to report really, I’m back in on 4th February at 11am for another Job Search session, not looking forward to that, at all.

I wanted to call this post “The Most Incompetent** Advisor” but people might take it the wrong way, truth is, my advisor is canny cool.

Anyways, what happened at my appointment… I was referred to that place I elaborated on in the last post and I was given my next appointment, which is a 1 on 1 job search with my advisor. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, is yet to be seen. Not really much in the way of a standard appointment.

But, that’s not all that happened, you see, my advisor IS incompetent**, forgot to hit the button to say I had arrived for my appointment, so he had filled in the action plan, but not how it should have been, then he nearly printed 21 pages on the wrong printer. And that’s not all, I was told a little story about how he thought the printer was broken, told his colleague, who, as you would, takes his word for it. So they were without a printer for a day or 2…. It was switched off… Had a good laugh over that.

One final thing, that is both funny, and surprisingly awesome at the same time. You know them referral forms, normally 3 different colour pages, White to send off, and one for the office and one for you? Well, one of the other advisor’s there, came up with a nifty little system; White to send off, as you do, then, If the customer is male, they get the blue page and the office copy is the pink page, if the customer is female, they get the pink page and the office keeps the blue – I approve, its a nice little way for some sort of individuality between customers.

That’s all folks, next appointment is 29th January 2013 – Cya then for another post.

**This is a bit of a joke, between my advisor and his colleague who sits over from him. Not to be taken seriously!

P.S. Don’t forget to update your bookmarks, www.avantafiles.com is no longer a re-direct, but a fully functional domain.

I originally wasn’t going to post about today’s appointment, I had the site on my phone while I was waiting for my advisor to get a form for a referral, couldn’t type the title in right, so the permalink was busted, so I decided to do it when I got home.

Then I remembered why I don’t post from Avanta, I think about what to write while on the way home.

And on that note, what happened today… My advisor had a go at me… NOT in a bad way, in a, tough love kind of way, that’s basically it, and the reason why there originally wasn’t going to be a post. Well, apart from being referred to somewhere (I’ll name the place when its sorted, but I’ve been told it could be a while), this place might be able to help with some… problems.. I have.

Next appointment is Thursday 17th January at 2pm – Should have another post then.