Day 674

Aka Wednesday 5^th December 2018

No New Comic Book Day for me today, as I’ve got the interview on Friday and I can’t afford to make two separate trips to London in the same week…and soon I won’t be able to make any (non-job hunting) trips to London ☹…

…I applied for Universal Credit, which involved filling in an online form, a short phone call to book an appointment for my ‘commitments meeting’ at my local JobCentre Plus, which will happen next Monday (I’ll need to take along my NI Card and Driving Licence), and that was that, so far it’s been very straight forward. I guess now I just wait to have my meeting, for the outcome of that meeting to be fed into the system and then wait to get a response to my application. My plan/hope is that the job interview this Friday goes great and I get that job, that I get UC, which tides me over until I get my first pay cheque…

…worked on my presentation, so I now have a long version that clocks in at around seven minutes and a shorter version that clocks in in just under five minutes. The main difference is that the long version goes into more detail. I’m thinking of using the long version as a handout to be taken away and presenting the shorter version. I’ve also re-read the job advert and description, although I will have another read tomorrow and Friday morning 😊 Tomorrow will be spent going over the two versions again just to make sure that they are as I want them, deciding whether to have a handout, transfer the short version onto cue cards, making sure that I’ll got all the documentation and materials that I’ll need (driving license, birth certificate, bank statement, note book, cue cards and small water bottle), I’ll also need to choose which tie to wear and to polish my work shoes! Now it’s time to rest and recharge the batteries…

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which went pretty badly, and I have to cheat on nearly a quarter of the clues (four out of 18). The answers were a real struggle to get, maybe because I’m a little worried about the job interview on Friday or the UC meeting on Monday! But I did learn that a ’student of races and peoples’ is an ‘ethologist’.