Oct
4
The Real World!
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Here I come to the real world. I’ve had a taste of it when I decided to leave behind my research career. IT IS HARD. This is my chance to start all over so I’d better not spoil it. It was indeed a long and painful reconversion with many doubts.
BUT I DID IT! Yeea Yeea yeaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Sep
29
2 years and 4 months and a New Career!
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I’ll start next Tuesday a new career, it is completely different from my research career which no longer exists anyways. I left Australia at the end of May 2008 so it has taken me exactly 2 years and 4 months to get back on my feet with a new start.
Type of job: Programming/Developping for business
Starting Salary: 30 000 Euros
Type of contract: CDI (permanent)
Location: Clichy Levallois (45 min by train)
Jul
18
Lolita is gone!
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Today around 5 pm, our 15 years old dog died. It was painless and it was swift. It feels very strange. I have a little something in my throat, It was the best ending I could dream of for her.
Mar
10
Eating, sleeping…and waiting
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That is all that has happened the last three months. Nothing really interesting to write about I guess. Waiting for things to get better.
List of little events:
1. My 500 Gb HD died yesterday. I was glad I had a backup HD so nothing was lost… I am looking to buy a new one.
2. I discovered that my australian credit/saving card expired when I tried to order my new HD online :). I wrote to my Australian bank about it.
3. I’ve sent out few more job appplications but I have no real hope concerning any of them at the moment
4. I lost 400 US dollars during CIT group bankcruptcy… I was hoping they could be saved….one mistake to remember, never hope in finance, the worse will happen
5. I made 300 US dollars gain in total with other my investments.
6. With the Euro going down, my savings in Euro go up….funny event.
7. Little troubles with my tooth…as always :(.
8. DELL, Infinira, Cisco….good stock options to invest in right now…High tech options are very stable to play with.
Dec
13
7 months back home and I got 6 extra kilogrammes. I am still rowing everyday half an hour (4.6 kms) but the good food is adding some extra weighs. I need to do something about it if I do not want a belly. Maybe I should eat more vegetables. The job market is too bad to do something right now. Wait …The stock market is worse so more waiting….
Nothing new besides playing WoW and waiting for something to happen. Boring life!
Nov
26
I did not get the position. I am not too sad because it was really far away and it would take me 3-4 hours to commute everyday. Life goes on and I keep on applying. Nothing really new and interesting happened. The winter is cold and wet here. Sunlight is shorter during a day but the days remain too long.
Nov
5
Job interview
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I’ve had one yesterday, it did go well. Second phase of selection is next week on Tuesday. We shall see. The job is a system admin subcontractor for Thales.
Oct
27
Getting Older
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As I am getting older, like everyone I am having little problems especially with my eyes. It is hard for me to focus and read tiny letters on my high resolution laptop screen. I finally figured out a way to keep the fonts bigger permantly for Windows and to prevent Firefox to automaticly resize:
It was painful to keep on reading little letters on my screen.
Oct
20
Addiction to WoW
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World of Warcraft is really addictive. I am trying to restrict myself to play it. I will only turn it on after 8 pm and play until 11 pm maximum. It took all my time but worse of all it has become repetitive.
I am still on the learning curve for stock investments. My position is kind of locked right now because of Citigroup future. The pertubations due to the banking crisis are still very strong.
More reading to do.
Oct
18
I like this transition phase where i try to cut anything that remotely connects me to social bounding. I like to be alone. It is a feeling that is unique!!!
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