How I wish that were so, six months in and the project is hotting up. I’ve been moved onto the critical path component now and the pressure is on – there seems to have been a little bit of a misunderstanding which is only now being examined in more detail. Obviously I can’t go into such details here, but suffice to say that the likelihood is that someone from my team, perhaps two or three of us, will have to go to Helsinki early next year. bart666, you got any more info on that job out there yet?
So, six months in…now the end is closer than the beginning, I’ll be back soon. There are a couple of open issues currently – whether they’ll invite me to stay here, to which the answer is almost certainly no (unless they have some sensible looking offer for me), and what my actual end date is anyway, I signed the contract with the agent on around May 18th (iirc) but didn’t actually start until 25th June. I have a years visa so cannot work beyond the 22nd June without renewing that, that is a hard deadline. I guess I should consider my final day to be one year from contract signing day, which would see me coming home mid May.
What do I do with the rest of my time here? I was planning on visiting a few more places than I have so far, I’ve only recently gotten my finances under enough control to be able to afford to go anywhere (there is a lag of up to 12 weeks from working to getting the money here, irritating at the beginning but it will be quite handy when I finish). But where do I want to go anyway? And when? Australia was on the list, but thats dead expensive, Vancouver was also tempting, thats a good deal cheaper and has better hills.
When do I go? That depends a little on you lot – who is going to come and visit me? And when are you going to be here? Comment here or mail me with as much of a plan as you have.
Time to get ready for another Tokyo Dark Castle, which should be interesting if the last one is anything to go by….and the scary smiley dj is playing again, I wonder if she’ll remember me? ‘cos I won’t recognise her without the scary smile.
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