I got the job! As of September (contract pending) I’ll be an ICT technician for the Art and Design department of the Vale of Catmose College in Oakham. This means that I’ll be working mainly with apple macs which I’m really happy about because it means I’ll be getting some new experience. There are a few Windows PCs lying around for adult learning and prodesktop and things but not any GNU\/Linux boxen, as of yet \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
I think the job is going to be very tiring with working with the students AND looking after a network and various other bits, but hopefully it’s going to be very interesting and as it’s only term time and 30 hours a week there should be time for other work too, providing I’m not too tired! I’m told there’s even the possibility of helping out in their theatre now and then which will be great. I was particularly chuffed because apparently the two other candidates who turned up for interview both had degrees, but I got the job!<\/p>\n
Bourne Festival<\/a> is happening this weekend and it’s so hard to stay away from it! On Thursday night I walked past and saw open flight cases and was just DYING to go over and help out. But I have revision to do. I did go on Friday night after my exam for a break though, and I watched the last act last night too which was “Doctor and the Medics” of 80s fame with their number one hit “Spirit in the Sky”. It was a fantastic performance and I’m told the previous act was good too. “The Doctor” praised the organisers for putting together a great festival and helping to prevent live music from dying! Who says community is dead…<\/p>\n I’m personally proud of Bourne and The Round Table for managing to organise such a great event, there were 6000 people packed onto the Wellhead field last night apparently, including bouncykaz<\/a> and mchicago<\/a> who it was nice to meet! It’s just a shame that the event is on such stupid dates though, right in the middle of all the student’s exams in Bourne.<\/p>\n I think I might go tonight to see the second sitting of The Houndogs and Legend which are both really great bands, wish I had time to see more of it \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n There was a mysterious power cut last night at an unknown hour between 1:30 and 3:45am which took out tralk and woke lauperr<\/a> and I with the sound of very loud white noise from my radio when it came back on!<\/p>\n Yesterday I ate a microwaveable prawn curry only to find out that it was actually 6 months out of date. A healthy dose of whisky, Rum, Tia Maria and Guinness seemed to cure the problem though! \ud83d\ude1b The former three were meant to be part of a Black Russian but mum accidentally put Rum in instead of Vodka! :S<\/p>\n P.S. I think I’ve helped<\/a> to “fix” the Creative Commons licenses which is very cool. Perhaps the next version of some of the CC licenses will be DFSG-free and everyone will be happy \ud83d\ude42 It’s great when groups like CC and Debian-Legal interact in this way. Keep up the good work guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got the job! As of September (contract pending) I’ll be an ICT technician for the Art and Design department of the Vale of Catmose College in Oakham. This means that I’ll be working mainly with apple macs which I’m really happy about because it means I’ll be getting some new experience. There are a … Continue reading hippygeek gets a job<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}