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I Quit!

Monday, July 24th, 2006

I’m going to do it! I’m quiting my job.

I can’t stand it anymore.  Sitting on my arse for eight hours a day.  I am not meant to do this, I need a job where I can be active and feel like I’ve earned my money or at the very least something challenging.

I’ve spent the last few hours typing out a letter of resignation and another letter that my boss will conveniently find two weeks after I am gone.  The second letter contains a few home truths and a big speech about how I could not live myself if I ever turned into a greedy, power obsessed asshole.  I’m sure she’ll find it quite educational.

I have thought of telling her to her face but I need a reference from her first.

I have a few interviews lined up, one of which is today after I finish work.  I hope I get this one because I like the sound of it and it pays slightly more than my current salary.

But bollocks to it.  I know in my heart I loved being a chef and now it’s time to return to catering once more.

 Ah! I feel much better!

Oh! I met up with an old friend I worked with at my first job ever as a chef.  She is by far one of the funniest and prettiest girls I’ve ever met.  She’s a few plates short of a full set, a bit like myself but she makes me laugh… ALOT!

I’m hopefully going to see her again a on Saturday.  Should be quite interesting. There is no romance here as she is in a relationship and I have interests in someone else as you probably know from reading my previous posts.
This girl is just a very good friend who I’d lost contact with over the past few years and is great that we have had the chance to catch up.

I’ll be handing in my notice after lunch and if I know my boss she will react badly, become bitter and make my last week here hell. But we only live once and must do the things in life that make us happy because in the end that is all that matters.

It’s nearly time…

Wine,Women & Work

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Just thought I’d have a ramble and an update on the last few weeks.

Firstly, Congratulations to my brother and sister in law who have a new arrival.  Her name is Grace and she was born on the 7th July and she’s really cute.  This now makes me an uncle of three as I also have twin nephews Connor and Ethan.  My brother and sisterin-law are proving to be a little baby assembly line.  My family always said I would be the first to settle and have kids.  How wrong they were! 

 

I still haven’t managed to get all my music on my ipod because it all needs tag editing and it is proving to be very time consuming.

My savings is are coming along well although I could be saving a lot more money if my friends weren’t such a bad influence on me (you know who you are).  I’ve been going out on the weekends drinking and generally acting like a teenager.  It has been so much fun!  We have started drinking in a bar in town which is open as late as most night clubs because the female to male ratio is amazing.  I’m not going to say what the bar is called because I want to continue being surrounded by b.e.a.utiful women.  Every time I have been to this bar I have ended up leaving a very lucky boy.  I guess my confidence is back to original form!  I still have a thing for the girl from Manchester but I am still single and have needs!

Adam and Me on a bus somewhere in Manchester

We haven’t been drinking stupidly all the time!  What do you take us for?  Last weekend myself and a few friends went to a woodland near by, built a fire and chatted a load of philosophical bollocks for a few hours. We also took pictures of cows!!

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A Cow

Anyway enough cows.

Apart from my social life being back on form my work life is ever increasingly pissing me off!  I share my office with a woman who is also in the same boat as me.  We are under pressure from a power obsessed tart who has no idea, no people skills and sets ridiculously unrealistic deadlines! (She obviously slept her way to the top).  Everyday I want to tell her to stick her job because I’m going travelling but if I don’t stick to my job I won’t be going anywhere!  I have thought about going back to being a chef (for those of you who don’t know me I am a fully trained chef).  Why I ever left catering I’ll never know…  Thinking about it I did it for the money.  You get paid a lot more to sit on your arse for nine hours per day!

The woman I work with is currently looking for another job and I hope she gets one before I go away so I can see the look on my boss’s smug face!  If not I wish her luck after my departure as I’m sure she’ll be reading this. Good luck N!

As for me I am looking for a job half heartedly because I only have to stay here for another 5-6 months or so.  I have looked into catering but i’m unsure how much I have forgotten as I’ve been a pen pusher now for over a year.  Who knows.

As my old man used to say “Such is Life.  We’ll have to wait and see”.

 

Stay tuned…

 

Mark.