I was motivated to do this post after reading Unfinished Person’s Post 2011: The Year I Sucked balls or Wait, Did I ?
Wait, am I seeing things … he went back to his old blog ? WTF ! Dude, stay at one place where I can find you !
Now, back to me:
My biggest event of 2011: To land that job I had planned to do 5 years form now. I was being realistic. Few are even hired in consulting firms with no experience. I imagined I’d work the salt mines for a few years and then try for a cozy office job of a miner planner / designer.
But I got to skip the first part. My employer was looking for Mechanical Designer for underground mines. My first diploma was in Mechanical Design. But the very fact that I had also been to Mining school attracted them most. I learned later that they had made up their mind to hire me before I was even interviewed. This was in the month of March.
January was uneventful. Lots of snow. I was getting impatient at my unemployment situation. In February, I got an interview from a Mine in Northern British Columbia. And I got to go on a trip. It was a great opportunity to get out. I posted a few pictures of that trip earlier.
Coming into March, all I can remember now was that phone call and the interview with my current Staff Manager.
So, that one afternoon, I was out for the day and only returned at around 5 P.M. Babs is going to love this story. I meant to tell her but I didn’t
So anyway, I come home and my brother says, there was a phone call from ‘Curran’. I was sure Babs did not have my phone number. But my brother says it was a man and he wanted to interview.
“Are you sure ? Why would Babs call me for an interview ?”
“No it was not Babs. It was a Dan and he left this phone number”
“But you wrote here… Curran. Babs is a Curran”
“Go call that number … you idiot !”
“Ok”. I call that number … it was not Babs. He was a ‘Curren’
I began my new job in May. I loved what I did.
But the down side: I was commuting 2 hours each way ! It was ok in the summer as the days were long.
Finding an apartment near work was futile at the time. The rents for apartments in that area begin at $1300 a month for one bedroom !
By September I couldn’t take it anymore. Again by a stroke of luck, Google Maps helped me I find a great place. I moved immediately in October with what ever little I could bring.
I was hoping to get married to my fiancé of two years in December. My family and hers decide that we marry in Saudi Arabia. So, we spend November in trying to apply for a visa to Saudi Arabia for my brother and I. At first it was rejected, because the Saudis don’t issue any visit visas until the second month of the Islamic year. But we didn’t give up that easy. We tried again. They said it will take between 45 and 60 days. I said, “Whatever ! Just do what you have to do”.
My brother and are I still waiting for our passports with the visas to Saudi Arabia. I check the status of our application every day.
December is almost over. So, the wedding is definitely going to be in 2012.
It will be a great start to the new year.
