nickchanger's blog - Archive: September 2010

It has been six weeks since my last blog entry, and apparently J0k3 could not wait much longer. I had a pretty good reason though, which can basically be summed up to "no internet". As of today that is no longer true so here I am! :P

A lot of things have happened since then though and I will here tell almost everything - in a very short way?

Since I were done with the school life I had to move out of my apartment. So the last weekend there my family came by to help pack up all of my things. Since I did not have a job yet, and therefore had no idea where in the world I would be living, I moved back to my parents house. Well actually they took all of my stuff back there as I had to deliver the keys to the apartment the following Monday.

My school mate Tuan called me during the weekend and told me that where he was working were desperately looking for more people so I should give it a shot. I wrote an application Sunday evening, and the following morning I received an email response asking if I could come in for an interview at 1 o'clock. I delivered my apartment keys at 12 and went straight to the interview. After only about 10-15 minutes they said something like "If you want too we have a job for you". I had some other stuff to check out so I did not accept right away, and instead I took the train home to my parents. The following day I did accept the job and they wanted me to start the following Monday. One problem though: It was 300 km away from where I was currently living.

The next Monday I borrowed my dad's car (they went on a trip to Stockholm and Saint Petersburg that week) and drove up for my first real work day ever. After it was done I drove even further north to some family I have there where I had been promised a bed and dinner! Sweet deal! :) Now the hunt for an apartment started.

Four days later (that is Thursday :P), I went to see an apartment. As I do not have any specific requirements I called the next morning and said I wanted it - and I got it. The following Wednesday, September 1st, I got the keys and moved in. It is only about 700 meters from where I work, and with three shops within acceptable walking distance. It has a living room, bedroom, kitchen and a not-so-big bathroom. The kitchen is almost brand new (3 months old). So basically nothing wrong with it ... except that it is on the 3rd floor (which is more like the 4th floor because of the way the building is). But that was only a big deal when I moved all of my boxes up, and my parents came and helped me move all of the furniture up. Damn that shit is heavy when moving it to the 3rd floor :/ .

My apartment is still quite empty as I only had enough furniture to fill a 1-roomed apartment :P . So over the next weeks (or months probably :P) I will fill it up with new furniture. But who cares, I have my bed and computer all set up and ready.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been using Internet on neighbouring unencrypted wireless networks. Damn they were quite unreliable :P . So finally today a SIM card arrived for my mobile internet and I am finally online on my own internet line! Why mobile you might ask? Well in three months the company were I work will pay for my internet connection so I did not see any reason to setup a lot of stuff just to change everything in three months.

And maybe one last thing. My employers is a web development company located in Aalborg called Net Image. I have been assigned to their webshop department were I code in PHP for several web shops (so far all danish though), including Bianco Footwear which have just gone online a week ago.

Yesterday I put my signature on a contract with my employers and I am now officially an employee.