New job?

I've been intentionally quiet for a few days and quiet in general about my change of jobs. So here goes.

I've not been really happy with ESCS - being an English teacher - for quite awhile. Excuse me while I go into it a bit:

- When I first was starting I got virtually no support from Matt. That really ticked me off because I wasn't working with any other teachers, either. At the same time Matt was always ready to kind of criticize me or offer teaching techniques that would address a very specific, small problem but not any of the overall problems.

- In this last year I definitely started taking the job a lot less seriously because, basically, the students had never taken it seriously. It's hard for me to get fired up all the time when the students so rarely do.

- The situation with the building where we worked. I had the keys on and off. Sometimes I could stay late to work on lesson plans, other times I had someone waiting impatiently for me to leave the building. Sometimes I had to sit on the stoop next door and wait for someone to let me in. Often had to sit in reception while a class was going on. That sort of thing.

- A big thing was the hours. They were always, always changing. Each week, usually, something would change. Often they'd have me come in early in the morning for a class and late in the afternoon for a class. The schedule was often set up so that Paula and I would hardly see each other in the day. I'd get called in randomly, shit like that. I hate that sort of thing.

- Little things like the fact that I never got the pay raise that Matt told me I'd get ...how Beata always unplugged the power strip I used so I'd have to reach behind the cabinet and plug it back in ...just little irritating things like that.

So, moving on to Capgemini.

- I think close to two months ago now Paula talked me into applying for some IT job. I didn't really know anything about it but Capgemini called me and asked me to come in for an interview. I didn't really feel great about this job but I went in anyway. The interview didn't really go that well - the requirements were way beyond what was indicated on my CV which ticked me off a bit. They said they'd call me in two weeks. They never - ever - did call me about that job. Paula had to check in with HR a few times and finally with the guy that interviewed me only to find out that the position had been eliminated or the job requirements had drastically changed.

- I finally got Paula to get someone from "credit collections" - the job I originally wanted because the hours are so good (1430 - 2300) and it's just plain easy. I should be able to move up quickly. Anyway I did the first interview which seemed to go well. A few weeks went by and, as promised, I was called back and asked for a second interview yesterday. Paula happened to meet with both people involved in yesterday's interview, today, and it turns out that they have asked HR to offer me a position.

So, hopefully I'll be starting soon. I guess I'll be calling people and nicely asking them to pay up. Shouldn't be too bad and a good way to get my foot in the door. We'll see what happens but, at this point, I feel confident enough about the job to mention it here.