The Call

I’ve received a call yesterday about an interview this week. Actually I received several phone calls about job offers. One all the way down south which will be a three hours commute back and forth, two days a week. The other three days I would be working in Amsterdam. Well, I told them those are my terms. They’ve actually asked for me, no idea why but it was kind of flattering. So I told them, show me a solid proposal and I will think about it. Funny thing is that in the meantime I received the other call.

It means that once a client puts an option on me they claim me for about five days, they will organise the interview and then they’ll have three days to decide if they’ll take me for the job or not. After those three days, another client has the right to put an option on me but in between they’re not allowed to take business away from eachother, hence this solution. It also means that if they decide after the interview that they won’t hire me I will automatically have my next interview down south.

Anyway. I wanted to accept one more assignment so I’ll time to sort out a parttime job. And this assignment is a really good one, it will add to my portfolio which is much better than all the consultancy stuff *boring!*. I will have to come up with good designs ;) The downside is that I’ll probably will have to postpone my summer vacation because it’s a half year contract. I won’t be going on vacation during their summer break. I don’t mind though, perhaps it’s even better that way…

It has been a weird month of March, very chaotic and unusual. I’m still considering everything I wrote about earlier, but I’ve put it on the side for now until I know for sure what is going to happen next, once I’ve had the interview…

(Update: the interview went extremely well, but it was planned on a Friday which -in my opinion- is a bad day to have an interview. Especially when you’re the first and they’ll be seeing others the week after. They will forget the impression you’ve left that day because of the weekend. I was called the week after the interview that I was a great second choice. It means that if at some point the same opportunity arises again they will contact and hire me.

That opportunity will arise because I know they’ll work on a major project that will need to be finished within the next two years. It’s not important though. What’s important is that I realised that morning -although being disappointed- that everything happens for a reason. Perhaps it was never meant to be after all. My dreams have been telling me the same lately. Perhaps I should face fear and cut some ties, finally…)

Happy Book

Who would’ve thought that one simple question could cause such a stir? I’ve been trying to figure out the answer but it seems to trigger a lot more than I could possibly imagine. So I’ve decided to start another what I call ‘Happy Book’ and dug out one of my many gorgeous notebooks so I could start with a clean slate and lotsa blank pages.

I’ve chosen the bigger version of the Moleskine notebook that I normally carry with me in my handbag. It was a birthday gift and I had put it away in one of my house moving boxes knowing that one day it would be useful for a certain project. I intend to cut out pictures and glue them on the still empty pages along with notes that I’ll jot down.

The questions that started all this were: ‘what do you want in your life…’ ‘what is your goal…’ whilst following a method to ‘reprogram the mind’: picture yourself in the new situation as if it is a present one, not a future version. But I have so many goals and/or wishes that in order to make them real I need to put some kind of structure in the chaos.

Because of this I needed to start a new ‘Happy Book’… this way I can reorganise my thoughts by organising clippings, sketches and written affirmations. While working on this I suddenly realised that this might take a bit longer and might need a bit more effort and hard work than I first thought but ‘the plan’ is going to be a great one…

Mark my words! *wink*