First Week of Work

Yep the title isn't misleading, I've finished my first week of work. After my previous entry where I mentioned interviews, I was contacted on the Wednesday after all of them and offered a position. The Role is a Sales Representative and your probably thinking Adam as a Sales Person....... But after the 1st week I've been on the phone and while so far I've not had the success and made sales I've been able to talk and grow in confidence, so I hope the first sale isn't far behind and its the 1st of many. The company is relatively new and small which I really like as it means I've hopefully found myself in a company that is only going to grow and evolve over time and hopefully I will as well. Travel is about an hour and a bit for me so it feels like a long day and having geared myself up to work Sunday to Thursday which here in Israel is traditionally the working week I find myself working Monday to Friday though with Friday being the Shabbat I work till 2.30 so in some ways I work 4 and a 1/2 days but its all cool. On the non work front it was cool to watch the Olympic Opening Ceremony from London last night and I was mightly impressed and proud to be British... best bit Queen skydiving in with 007 or was it when some caught her not really paying attention LOL. Apart from that is been a pretty uneventful week as I said 1st week of work I've been concentrating in getting through that. This week its more of the same though I'm Tel Aviv bound to see friends at least 1 day and a birthday party later in the week so got things to look forward to instead of just going to work, coming home, going to bed and repeat LOL. So that's it for now hope everyone is safe and well and those based in London aren't having too much trouble with travel.

Busy week

Well been a busy week for me, started the week off with 5 interviews lined up for the 1st 3 days, plus a trip to Jerusalem for an Interview Skills Workshop, so I have put the travelling in this week, was grateful to have the last couple of days to relax and enjoy the sunny weather. Also wondering if the summer will ever come for the UK or will the Olympics be rained off LOL. However back to the interviews, all were similar roles and I suppose from each I learnt something and hopefully if I have to interview again in the distant future I won't make any mistakes and I'll be prepared. Apart from that, the Berlitz training didn't unfortunately happens, but fortunately a good reason why and I hope maybe I'll be able to do it at some point in the future as it be nice to be able to instruct people in speaking English. Socially I got to hang out with friends on Tel Aviv beach on Friday and that was very nice as I made some new friends including one who managed to get me an interview at her company, even if the result wasn't positive. Still its the weekend, time to sit back and relax and prepare myself for going back to a routine of getting up for work.

Weekly Update

Okay, couldn't come up with a really great title LOL. Anyway thought I'd blog, bit quiet this last week, nothing more than job hunting as usual, had a few interviews and no success sadly from them, but nothing more than keep trying :-). Did have my quickest interview/chat yet on Sunday or was it Monday... the days go by so quickly they blur into one. But thanks to a friend here in Israel I got put in touch with someone in regards to a job and literally I went through to Tel Aviv and sat with them for 5 minutes before they had to leave. The outcome is I'm waiting on a phone call tomorrow I hope to say whether they want to see me again for another chat and see if I am suitable for this position, I will keep you all posted. On the plus side I did get to see a couple of friends whom I haven't seen since Ulpan finished for a little while so that was good and tomorrow I will see another friend who is here from the UK so that will be good and hitting Tel Aviv beach Friday daytime to celebrate a friend 1 year here in Israel. Also good news for me as a friend will be coming in December for 2 weeks so I get to spend new year in Israel with a friend :-) Otherwise not much to say, feel a bit out of touch with people both here in Israel and in the UK, so if your reading this get in touch and say hi let me know how your doing :-) Finally end it on a high as they always say. On Sunday I will start training with Berlitz Language Center, its not a full time job, but I see it as something new to learn and do and hopefully when I find the elusive full time job I can do the Instructing a couple of nights a week and bring in a little pocket money. Anyway that's all from me, hope you enjoy reading and always leave a comment.

Family and Frustrating times

Well its been a few weeks since I blogged so here I am again. I've had a good couple of weeks as my family has been here, mostly to see me and also a family wedding last week. Was nice to see them especially as they brought stuff from home including Chocolate Biscuits :-). Managed to spend a lot of time with them and I'm not quite sad, even though we'll speak on Skype I'm not sure the next time I will see them in person. Still my Dad's older sister is still in Israel and I'll be joining her and her partner for dinner tonight. The frustration comes from many interviews but no final result and its hard to not feel a bit down about it all, I know something will come but its now a case of when and I know people will say have patience something will show up but my patience is wearing thin really lately. I was also asked in an interview why I chose Rishon when its not particularly full of English Native speakers and my answer which I only thought of after the interview should have been, I'm wanting to learn the language and what better way than in a location where people don't rely on English, after all how I can learn if all I speak is English, (think I will use that from now on if anyone asks). Otherwise things are good, just need to work on finding work and finding that ever so elusive social life. And finally as today is the 4th of July I would like to wish all my American friends and readers of this a Happy Independence Day