Posts Tagged ‘job’

Again…

Posted 12 May 2011 — by admin
Category employment opportunities, work

It only seems like a few months ago that I was writing this and now I find myself writing a similar blog post.
Last week I was made redundant once again, which quite frankly is a bit of a pain in the arse. One of the reasons I moved to this company was because I thought that it served an industry that was quite stable following the economic shenanigans that we’ve been experiencing recently. Turns out this isn’t the case and the lack of work means that there isn’t enough in the pot to support the two account managers they have, which in turn means that I’m out on my ear. Ho hum.
On the up-side though, I’ve been through this before so I immediately punted my CV out to anyone who will listen and have listened before and hopefully they’ll start to come up with exciting and new challenges for me going ahead. I’m still looking for opportunities in the digital and interactive fields for anyone who is interested in letting me flex my organisational and creative muscles. So if you happen to hear of anything or have happened upon this blog post because I tagged it ‘career’, ‘challenge’ and ‘opportunity’ then drop a line to simon[at]mistersnappy[dot]co[dot]uk and perhaps we can talk.

So once again, for the benefit of those friendly search engines I’d like to say:

producer, senior producer, BBC, milo, holler, clearpoint, experience, web, internet, project management, project manager, products, development, iphone, flash, creative, jobs, challenge, opportunity, career

That is all.

The grass is greener

Posted 13 Aug 2008 — by admin
Category work

So now I’m at my new job. I’ve moved from West London to East London, from a big corporation to a small collective. The trousers are baggier and the t-shirts are more expressive. I’m now a Senior Producer at milo creative who are based in Hoxton E2.

I’m in week two and here is what I’ve learned.

  • Changing jobs was the right thing to do
  • The work is more challenging, more creative and most of all more fun
  • There is life outside the WC canteen and you don’t have to have fish and chips every Friday
  • You can keep in touch with the cool people from your old job even though you all work in different places
  • I can’t go on having vegetable curry from the Japanese Canteen because I’ll kill my diet and bust my trousers
  • Macs are good

The things that have irritated me so far

  • My previous employer thinks I still work for them
  • Apparently I’m going to get paid by them on Friday (good times), but I’m going to have to give the money back next month (bad times).
  • My journey to work doesn’t take as long as I thought it would but come term time the roads are going to be clogged
  • Trains are horrid

So far so good. There are lots of people nearby to lunch with and hopefully the old crew will come up occasionally for lunch or a beer.