Kink 'n' Ink

In roughly 51 hours it’s 2011.
Which leaves me just that amount of hours to look back on 2010.
A year with ups and downs but in all a year that ended quite well for me.
I learned a lot, taught others a lot and really came that much closer to how I want my life to be.

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The issue with work solved itself pretty much. I’m following my gut feeling which is to decline.

I found out a raise is impossible. So theres not much I will gain.

And my own manage asked me something yesterday. If I want to play a significant role it the courses they are developing for people aged 15-30.
Working with youth again, it is my passion. And a bigger opportunity in the end.

Thank you guys for thinking along with me!

Last week the manager of another team approached me with a question I didn’t expect.
Apparently another co-worker from her team told her that they need to recruit me into their team.
Besides this being a huge compliment (they deal with different clients then I do right now and the co-worker that referred me is super good at her job) it’s also a decision I will have to make within this week. [...]

Hey coming up with new titles is hard every time again…

I’ve started uploading some of my pics from the iPhone to Flickr and I’m trying to get them to crosspost all over the place. It’s not super difficult but does require me to sit the hell down and read through some of the FAQ’s.

For now just go look at the photo stream thingamabob here: Flickr

Last week it was snowing in the Netherlands.
Next to making traveling by public transport a friggin’ pain in the ass it did give some pretty pictures:

I’m not a big fan of all the snow and ice though. Makes me walk like a total spaz and I fall over just about a million times… [...]

So it’s been over a week since I heard about my job. I’ve been talking with my manager just about every day to see if he knows any good options. Today he called me in for another talk and had some semi good news.

My manager used to be a manager at another company and out there he headed the team that was involved with youth and unemployment. He pulled some strings and apparently they could use someone like me there.

I still have to apply for the job, go through the motions, etc. But he will be putting in a good word for me.
Let’s see what comes of that!

*goes off to write her application*