Bondage and Submission
Sep. 2nd, 2003 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fluffymarkAnd the big news today is....
My thesis has gone to the binders!
Yaaaaaaay! Which means sometime later this week, it'll be submitted to Senate House, and the long slow plod towards the viva starts. It's a relief, but feels all so anti climatic. Guess it'll sink in soon, when I start jobhunting properly. Don't suppose anyone has any hints of places to look for programming jobs? (preferably C++ or java, but I can probably learn any other programming language in less than a week. Oh and I'm highly skilled in mathematical techniques and games programming, if that helps any...). Or even better, anyone know of any actual jobs going? Worth a try asking here...? *smallsmile*
Today was fairy day again, always something to look forward to. You see, I have a fairy calendar, so on the first of every month, I get a new pretty fairy to drool at (they're cute, but not as sexy as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
arkady's faery drawings, unfortunately. Otherwise I would be in trouble!). This months fairies seem to be dancing around a tree. Awwwww. *smallsmile*
And I hate to disappoint anyone hoping to see a *huge* scar on my leg in the near future, but my leg appears to be healing up very nicely. The lovelyarkady kindly stopped me from freaking out at the scary hospital on Sunday, where I had the stitches removed, and my leg is feeling much happier now. There will be a scar, but it may be small, hard to tell. But I still can't poi until it heals up, because the wound is on exactly the bit of the left leg that always gets hit when my left hand goes all uncoordinated (which happens all too often). Want to poi. Want to poi! *poiual frustration* Grr grrr grrrrrrrr
My thesis has gone to the binders!
Yaaaaaaay! Which means sometime later this week, it'll be submitted to Senate House, and the long slow plod towards the viva starts. It's a relief, but feels all so anti climatic. Guess it'll sink in soon, when I start jobhunting properly. Don't suppose anyone has any hints of places to look for programming jobs? (preferably C++ or java, but I can probably learn any other programming language in less than a week. Oh and I'm highly skilled in mathematical techniques and games programming, if that helps any...). Or even better, anyone know of any actual jobs going? Worth a try asking here...? *smallsmile*
Today was fairy day again, always something to look forward to. You see, I have a fairy calendar, so on the first of every month, I get a new pretty fairy to drool at (they're cute, but not as sexy as
arkady's faery drawings, unfortunately. Otherwise I would be in trouble!). This months fairies seem to be dancing around a tree. Awwwww. *smallsmile*And I hate to disappoint anyone hoping to see a *huge* scar on my leg in the near future, but my leg appears to be healing up very nicely. The lovely
arkady kindly stopped me from freaking out at the scary hospital on Sunday, where I had the stitches removed, and my leg is feeling much happier now. There will be a scar, but it may be small, hard to tell. But I still can't poi until it heals up, because the wound is on exactly the bit of the left leg that always gets hit when my left hand goes all uncoordinated (which happens all too often). Want to poi. Want to poi! *poiual frustration* Grr grrr grrrrrrrr
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Date: 2003-09-01 05:01 pm (UTC)For games programming jobs, I used http://www.datascope.co.uk/ who seemed quite good (and got me a job offer at Codemasters:) Though be warned, games programming jobs on average pay notably less than comparable programming jobs in other fields:/
As for actual jobs going, ISTR that we are recruiting atm (er, I think this (http://uk.jobs.eds.be/en/kijkkast/ShowJp.asp?JpId=4476&category=&country=be) must be the one), though that's not in London of course.
Good luck..
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Date: 2003-09-01 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-01 05:20 pm (UTC)Don't mind if job is games programmer or not, i'd expect them to pay less, but i'd be more likely to enjoy the job so its ups and downs whatever. My main problem i suspect will be convincing employers i've got 20 years experience of programming with no qualifications whatsoever!
And the luck is most appreciated. *putsinluckbox* Need all i can get.
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Date: 2003-09-01 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-01 10:24 pm (UTC)Go you!
Gina
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Date: 2003-09-01 11:26 pm (UTC)As for geek job agencies in London:
http://www.best-international.com/
(It Recruitment Consultancy of the year)
http://www.softwarejobs.co.uk/homesoft.html
http://www.virtualpurple.co.uk
http://www.cliveden.co.uk/
http://www.careerwiseit.co.uk
http://www.dpconnect.co.uk/
http://www.elanit.co.uk/immediacy/main.asp?page=21
http://www.jmms.co.uk/index-frameset.asp
http://www.kingsmere.co.uk/itjobs.htm
http://www.rothstein.co.uk/vacancies.htm
Recruitment
Date: 2003-09-02 12:43 am (UTC)Good luck with the bondage and submission.
Penny
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Date: 2003-09-02 01:35 am (UTC)Well done you!
Date: 2003-09-02 02:27 am (UTC)Well done for finally finishing and getting it all done! And loads of luck finding a geek job *fingers crossed*
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Date: 2003-09-02 04:37 am (UTC)*hugs*
Incidentally, dare I mention
http://www.panasonicmobile.com/frame/e_eng.html?
(which is a terribly fussy site, but hey ho...)
*grin*
Apparently they are frequently looking for new programmers. Other than the occasional long working days (and it's worth remembering that the week before the party was the worst ever by a long way - and Nick's also been known to come home early all the days of a week), it seems to be a nice place to work. Nick certainly finds it satisfying most of the time, pay and conditions are good, there's nice social stuff and there are rabbits in the grounds. Of course, they're based in Thatcham, not London - though the company is quite near Thatcham railway station, and people do commute from London and even (in one crazy, crazy case) Croydon...
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Date: 2003-09-02 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-02 05:09 am (UTC)There might be an IT tech job going here soon, but I'm not sure that's what you're after...!
And excuse my lack of finger on pulseness/down with da kidsness, but please enlighten me as to what a 'poi' is...
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Date: 2003-09-02 05:20 am (UTC)Mind you, that site doesn't have any jobs listed at the Thatcham mobile phone design place, whereas Nick is pretty certain that there *are* some jobs available in Thatcham at the moment, and that they would definitely be interested in Mark's abilities. So maybe he should ask Nick to make personal enquiries on his behalf.
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Date: 2003-09-02 05:22 am (UTC)Cunning.
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Date: 2003-09-02 05:45 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-09-02 06:55 am (UTC)Re: Recruitment
Date: 2003-09-02 06:56 am (UTC)Re: woohoooo!!!!
Date: 2003-09-02 06:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-02 06:58 am (UTC)Re: Well done you!
Date: 2003-09-02 06:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-02 07:18 am (UTC)I can see you're determined to get me to work for panasonic, so I'll have a look at the website. It would be a fab place to work, but the commute to thatcham from london could be awful and the only bad thing. Still, it 's worth looking into. If as, you say, it may be best if Nick asks around there for vacancies - I could email you a compy of my CV if he wants to wave it at them. :)
Thankyou lots! :) *huuuuuuuuuuugs*
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Date: 2003-09-02 07:22 am (UTC)What sort of IT job? Just curious.
Poi are colourful spinning things on cords that people spin around fast with both hands in pretty and spectacular ways. Take a look at http://www.poi-world.com if you're still confused. It's lots of fun, and i'm not yet very good at it, as my left hand refuses to co-operate with me.
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Date: 2003-09-02 07:22 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-09-02 11:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-02 01:20 pm (UTC)You nicked my post title though :p
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Date: 2003-09-02 02:39 pm (UTC)I did nick your title, but thats only becasue it's the most fab ever. :) And the 'handing in' has in effect already occured - my thesis was attached to an email and disappeared across the internet to the binders, and they'll deliver a real copy of the thesis to the relevant peoples. So all i had was the joy of pressing send on an email. wooo. Mind you, it took *aaaaaaages* - i've never sent a 33MB email before. :)
Tomorrow I go to the Job Centre. To sign on.
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Date: 2003-09-02 02:55 pm (UTC)I got my first job through ecm - http://www.ecmsel.co.uk/home.htm who seem quite good at only finding jobs that are the sort of thing you want and where you want.
Don't be afraid to make people wait a bit if you're not sure about a job and are waiting to see about another one.
The people I know who work / have worked in games say it's rubbish unless you want to play games all the time and work stupid hours for not very much.
As for poi, get two long socks and two tennis balls and make sock poi like I have, then you don't hit your legs, you hit yourself higher.
If you'd like, next time I see you I could lend you the poi book because I've learn't most of the stuff in it now. It's got great instructions for things that are a bit of a headfuck at first like weaves and behind the back weaves and corkscrew and stuff. You must come to poi in the park on Clapham common some sunday afternoon too because it's super and there are lots of really good poi people to teach us mere mortals silly things.
Joe
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Date: 2003-09-02 03:22 pm (UTC)I do want to get to Poi in the Park one sunday, but i think most weekends this month are already exploding with people demanding to see me. I'll let you know should I intend to go there, for sure. And yes, i'd like to have a look at the Poi book, and learn some fancy spinning stuff. :)
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Date: 2003-09-03 05:07 am (UTC)Well done!
Hope your leg gets better quickly...
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Date: 2003-09-03 07:43 am (UTC)