Employment - Part II

So I did get the job with the City, the same one as the past two years. I am supposed to make 12.50 but instead my boss bumped me up to $13/hr which is great. Obviously there are higher paying jobs out there but this one is easy and well...13 sure ain't bad pay!
Now all I have to do is find a second part-time job for the weekends and into the school year - like at shoppers or blockbuster or subway or something...I dunno exactly.

Employment - Part I

I had an itnerview today for a peer helper position with Carleton for the next school year. I had the interview at 1:30pm and got a call from the, at 3:30ish saying that I had received the job. I will be assisting the Career Services Department 5 hours a week during the school terms. It isn't really great pay - as a matter of fact it is crap pay - I get $250 at the end each term. BUT I should get really good networking contacts as I will be assisting with co-ordinating the job fairs on campus - the engineering ones too. It will also look good on my resume as it will be good references and show another side of my capabilities as an employee.

I also got an email from my boss at the City of Ottawa, where I have worked for the past two summers. As some of you know, I screwed up my applications to the City this year as they closed earlier than I was expecting and therefore didn't end up applying for any of the jobs I wanted including my old job. After some work on his part, my boss got me my job which is great. I will admit that I didn't really want to work there again this summer - I wanted one of the enviro jobs in the City, but was going to apply to my old job as a backup since it is good pay and engineering work. I am really appreciative though that my boss would go to so much trouble to get my job back after I screwed up the application.

My summer employment plan is to work at the City for $12.50/hour from 7:30am to 3:00pm everyday and then hopefully get another job at a Shoppers or Blockbuster or Subway or something around where I live and work there on the weekends and then keep that job as I go into the next school year. I will have to wait and see what happens with that part though as I don't really have time to go out and search for that job just yet - maybe during the exam period I will start that. :)

Wee Update

Just a wee update on life in Stephville if you will.
I have been really busy with school - so many assignment and reports due real soon. Like my fourth year project presentation is in two weeks and the design isnt even done - so scary.
I have also screwed up big time in terms of work as I forgot to apply to the City of Ottawa for the summer - I didn't really want to work at the same job again - I just wanted a guaranteed job. I have applied at school for some on campus jobs and am thinking of applying at some stores in South Keys and around the area I live. I have also considered getting a job of a subway or some other fast food restaurant - but never a McDonalds or something greasy and gross like that. Who knows what will happen in the end. I hope I can make enough money for school next year and for doing what I want to do in the summer. I really hate not knowing what I am doing for money...

MOUSE!!!

Ok so the above schematic gives you the scene that was this morning. I went to make mybreakfast - a lettuce and cheese sandwiched, toasted, no butter - and I was picking through the last bits of lettuce getting the best ones. I made a little pile of lettuce to use and went to throw the bad stuff out when I found amouse on top of the garbage can!! Without screaming I went upstairs and got dave and when we came down, it was gone. As was some of my lettuce!

So my thoughts are this: the mice have been watching me, studying my routine until today. The mouse in the garbage can was a decoy to make me leave my lettuce unattended. While I got Dave, another mouse, possibly two mice, stole my lettuce and took off to enjoy it with their mouse buddies. Clever mice - but they must go.

Traps are being set. Or a cat is being rented - though all the guys are allergic to cats so that won't work - but traps are being set! There will be no mice in house.

Back to Work.

So lately I have been able to do only a couple of hours of homework during the weekend, since I have been more or less, keeping up to date with it. I am still caught up, but the courseload is starting tog et heavier. This weekend I have an 'essay' to write about whistleblowing in the field of Professional Engineering, notes to write up (as usual) and a bunch of research to do for my design project. It doesn't sound like much, but the design project is turning out to be a lot of work, although that was expected fromt he get go.

Yesterday I went and spoke to the Environmental Engineer at Keller Engineering since they are designing the Anaerobic Digestor (he called it AD) in real life for the same farm we are designing for in schoo life. He was from Sweden and was really quite interesting, even though he didn't seem to completely understand what our project was about or really what environmental engineering student meant. But yeah, the firm is not even a minutes walk fro my house. I have applied there before but I was only in second year and didn't have any real knowledge at all about environmental engineering. I am hoping to apply there again this summer, although I am not expecting much, it is a small firm and they only have one environmental engineer on staff, although they all seemed so nice when I was there.