Thanks to sodyinoz for this one...

1. Go to www.careercruising.com
2. Put in Username: nycareers Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top ten results

My results were:
1. Foreign Service Officer
2. Website Designer
3. Computer Support Person
4. Director of Photography
5. Industrial Designer
6. Special Effects Technician
7. Industrial-Organizational Psychologist
8. Technical Writer
9. Film Processor
10. Interior Designer
11. Director
12. Desktop Publisher
13. Actor
14. Multimedia Developer
15. Computer Programmer


Not sure how #1, 7, and 9 got in there, but the rest are all things I'm interested in.

It's been 8 working days since I've been back after my holiday and already I feel like I haven't been on a break.

I calculated today that as of 6pm I've done 104 hours of time-sheet entered work (eg not including lunch breaks, etc). 104/8 = an average of 13 hours/day over those 8 days. No wonder I feel like I need another holiday!

1 more day to go then a 3 day weekend - at least something good came out of APEC apart from being able to post photos of snipers on rooftops in Sydney!

Life has been rather hectic to say the least, so it's been a while since I posted.

I have moved house and am now living in Chippendale in Sydney.





While the manic house search and move was going on, I've been working rediculous hours on a website for Qantas showcasing their support of the Qantas Wallabies rugby team called Worldwide Wallabies which launched last week after a lot of hard work by a number of people at work. There's still 5 months of roll-out to go, but the start is there. Naturally I'd like everyone who reads this to join the site (it's free) to boost the numbers.

I have to say this is the single largest advertisement for a site I've worked on to date...

I had to go into work today to make a few changes to a document, so I took the opportunity of an empty office to take some photos of the view from the windows without everyone thinking I'm crazy.

Follow this link to pics from the floor I work in (27) and our reception on Level 25.

So new job means moving from a company where jeans and a casual shirt is well dressed to a full suit and tie every day environment.

The problem with that is that I only own 1 suit, 2 plain white shirts and 2 ties... well I did, until today!

Armed with money from mum to pay for clothes, I managed to get:

7 ties, 5 shirts, 2 pairs of cufflinks, a pair of leather shoes, and 2 suits. How much would you expect to pay? $5,000? $3,000? All this for under $1,400! Pretty good going if I do say so myself.

More photos

In case you were still thinking there won't be an Apple Store in Australia, it's now official as Apple Australia have started advertising for retail store staff.

Let's hope they get some good people!

You might wonder why I'm writing a year in review post today rather than at the end of December or the beginning of January. There is a good reason for it being done today.

12 months ago on January 14, 2006 I moved back to Sydney from Melbourne
- Road Trip (Jan 13 2006)
- Alive (Jan 17 2006)

So much has happened in those twelve months.

On January 30 2006 I started my job at XYZnetworks
- Work! (Jan 24 2006)

My car clicked over 100,000KM
- 100,000 (Mar 28 2006)

I have moved house 4 times
- Five Dock (Jan 22 2006)
- Waterloo (Apr 16 2006)
- My parents house (Jul 30 2006)
- Surry Hills (Nov 25 2006)

Stayed at the Radisson Hotel Sydney for 5 weeks for free
- Sydney Photos (Augst 28 2006)

I turned 37
- Another year gone (May 28 2006)

Had a car accident
- Weekend wrapup (Oct 16 2006)

Discovered Effen black cherry vodka
- Effen vodka! (Oct 23 2006)

Got myself a boyfriend
- BF (Dec 18 2006)

And travelled interstate
- Melbourne 3 times (pleasure)
- Adelaide once (work)

So that's it - 12 months in a nutshell (or at least a single LJ post)

So last night I went to see Robbie Williams for his First Sydney Concert this tour at Aussie Stadium in Moore Park. Work had been given a number of tickets as two of our channels, [V] and MAX were sponsors.

I have to admit the only album of Robbie's I own is the Royal Albert Hall concert when he did all the swing songs. I knew it wouldn't be like that, but I didn't know any of his other songs well enough to even be able to name them. I'll admit it - I had fun.

We were in 'Oval A' which is the standing section directly around the stage. We managed to get fairly close, off to one side - we didn't want to be in the teen crush that would happen directly in front of the stage. As it turned out we had quite a good view, and were right near one of the big screens.

The set was amazing with hundreds of small screens set up as a video wall in a semi-circle behind him. At one stage he had climbed on top of the set and came down in a lift-type contraption - all very impressive. The other thing I loved was that it wasn't unbearably loud - the speaker set-up was very well done.

I unfortunately didn't take my camera with me, but I did get some shots on my phone which I have uploaded here.

I have been living with my parents for the last 3 or 4 months. Tomorrow that all changes...

I have found a friend who was looking for a housemate and am moving in. Tomorrow!

I called a place that rents utes and they had one avalable tomorrow for just $70 so I booked it.

Have to pack, organise what I need, etc, etc. I pick the ute up at 10am tomorrow and take it back by 3pm

As you can see it's a lot closer to the city from where I am now.

So, I found out today that the person who I thought was going to be moving to Sydney and be my new house-mate, isn't.

His work are sending him to Brisbane for 12 months.

AARGH

He doesn't like it, I don't like it, it totally sucks.

Now I have NFI what to do. I'm going rapidly insane living with my parents. I have no privacy and can't go anywhere without 100 questions being asked. Not hat I can go out anyway as it's so far from anywhere I'd want to go and say, drink, that I couldn't get back home again anyway.

AARGH!

I'm thirty-fucking seven years old and I'm being forced to live with my parents because I can't afford anything by myself and I won't live with complete strangers as everyone who advertises on share sites that I've met have turned out to be total freaks.

AARGH!

AARGH!

AARGH!

Oh and to top it all off, I'm having to move desks at work in a few weeks time - away from the people in the office who I like and actually get along with, and next to a group of people who I can't stand.

AARGH!

And again... AARGH!

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