What did I do to be so lucky?
What a weird day — I was offered a job. I won’t be sharing any details about it yet until I know what the deal is but it would almost be my dream job.
I got it through a teacher(-ish) at the Uni. They (singular) were impressed by my work in a couple of classes.
Crazy stuff. I’m grinning from ear to ear (like this 
) and can’t wait for tomorrow to call about it. I’m dead scared of phones (or of the sort of conversations…) but I’m going to call. Of course I am. Yes, I am. Yeah.
Alas, this probably means I need to quit the research job. It would be a shame because the people are really nice 
and it’s interesting and I was secretly hoping I could get my master’s thesis topic off of the project…
But I wouldn’t be the only one that’s left for a “real” job (I don’t mean that the research is less real than something else — but it can only go on for so long). I sometimes feel like I’ve given what I’ve got to the project and am twiddling thumbs (well, except now that I have this bloody tricky XSLT-script to write). But I can’t keep three jobs (be they only part-time and occassional), now can I? I still have studying to do as well!
But I really really do want this new job. OK OK, I don’t know if it’s going to be anything or am I just getting excited for no reason, but I sure do hope it will work out.
This is actually pretty scary, or odd at least. When I was younger (well, before I got sucked into this Uni project and realised that I may be able to be of use) I thought I probably wouldn’t amount to anything. I’ve been studying this vague subject that doesn’t give you a clear cut pigeon-hole occupational title like a doctor, or a lawyer or a kindergarten teacher (not that I’ve ever wanted to work in a pigeon-hole).
Honestly, what did I do?! (Well, I am a robot after all )
[update May 19 @12:35] Darn, it would be a full-time job. I don’t know if I can handle that. I have to negotiate. [/update]
[update May 19 @ 15:25] Negotiations on-going This is very exciting! When they find out I don’t study languages, though… ooops. 
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Good luck on the job :mrgreen:. Geez, 3 jobs and I’m just searching for one. Throw one this way, will ya?
I’m assuming you knew your site was down (was it yesterday?) – I assumed you were upgrading to the newest version of WP 1.5.1 (is it?). I’m not going there yet, I always try things too soon – when they’re still buggy.
I’ll throw this project job your way (as the new one is a dream job for me). How comfortable are you with ontologies?
At least you’d be better describing English and its quirks than me.
I didn’t know about any downtime. I updated to 1.5.1. roughly 20 minutes after it was released so it was on… um… a Monday far far away.
I haven’t had too many problems. There was one incompatibility issue with a plugin but that became known on the forums quickly, and I had trouble with feeds which I corrected with a little code change as shown somewhere on the forums.
I’m happy and used to tweaking code so a couple of error messages don’t freak me out (unless they appear in the middle of the night when I’m busy trying to get a course assignment done).