Aquarion and the unmissed opertunity

So, on the first of this month I signed on to the Dol^HJobcentre. Later that same day LoneCat pointed me at a job which had fallen into her inbox, and at 16:00 on 1st July, I applied for it. The job advert read like a check-list of all the things I’m either interested in or know about. They obviously agreed with that, because they replied to my freshly rewriten CV, as the next day they replied with an interview time for the following day (This would be the third of July, or two days after I applied), which I went to.

Over the next two weeks various things happened. An interview with the lead developer over the phone, a meeting of the CEO & CTO, and finally this morning (Afternoon, really) I woke up, went to get tea, and came back to discover they wanted to see me again. Within 45 minutes of waking up, I was on my way to London, for the final in this series of interviews…

Long story shorter, I’m now employed by BrowserAngel, who are doing cool social software things I’ll mention when they go global, and start at 10am tomorrow morning.

Today is a day for celebration. Anyone for tea?

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  1. Castellan
    20:25 on July 17th, 2003

    Congratulations! I know how much unemployment sucks, so a very hearty well done – no sugar for mine, ta.

  2. qB
    20:46 on July 17th, 2003

    Fantabulastic. From the link it looks like a really interesting project. Might even forego coffee for tea in honour of the occasion.

  3. Paul Freeman
    22:09 on July 17th, 2003

    Excellent news. Congratulations.

  4. Roland Tanglao
    22:31 on July 17th, 2003

    Very cool! Congrats! Can’t wait to see what you are doing since my wife Barb works for a non-profit!

  5. MP
    22:51 on July 17th, 2003

    Yay! Well done! Now, if you get any jobs that _I’m_ qualified for turning up, don’t hesitate to give me a shout… :-)

  6. Burningbird
    04:20 on July 18th, 2003

    Congratulations! I suppose this means no Mockingbird’s song since you’re going to be working.

    Very great news.

    I’m up for tea. When?

  7. Aquarion
    07:25 on July 18th, 2003

    On the contary. I appear to only ever get anything *done* when I’ve got something else to do :-)

  8. Natalie
    09:49 on July 18th, 2003

    Oh wow – yesterday really was the day of job offers. Congratulations!
    Is it in London then?

  9. Karen
    11:54 on July 18th, 2003

    Wonderful. Congratulations!