Another Exciting Blog Entry

It’s been two weeks since I published anything to the blog, mostly because not much is happening.  The days are an endless round of internet job searching followed by follow-up phone calls, some of which amazingly enough even get returned.   Not much happening on the job front yet but is it is still early days and things are not really moving much.  I am classed an academic here due to the fact that I have been training project managers and managers how to do their jobs.   It seems that most recruiters subscribe to the “those that can’t do teach” scenario.  It’s all BS but what can you do.  Words don’t change their minds and it is difficult to get past them (the recruiters that is).  We are working on that however.  We have decided to move to Auckland and concentrate our job search there.  We have a berth reserved for January 7^th for three months.  The price is a bit higher than here but not too bad.  If at all possible we would like to stay in Auckland rather than Wellington, mostly due to weather.  Of course, as soon as we get settled in Auckland we I will likely get a job in Wellington but that’s life!

We did start the process of getting an unemployment insurance benefit while we are looking.  It’s not much but it will offset most of our costs.  The only problem is that some bright spark a few years ago decided that it would be better if people did not talk to counsellors individually but rather they (we) need to sit in on two information sessions before the benefit is granted.  The process, at this point, looks to take 4-6 weeks.  Oh well, red tape abounds everywhere and we are at least fortunate enough to have a little aside to tide us over for a wee while longer.  On the boat front, we are still waiting for parts for the motor.  The Vetus dealer in Auckland who everything must go through is not the best company in the world to deal with.  I wasn’t impressed with them 9 years ago when I was refitting Loon Echo, and surprisingly, I\m still not impressed.  The parts MAY be here this coming week.  Other than that we struggle on with the usual readjustment stress about ripping our lives up and restarting them.  Some days are good, others we just get through.