Guess what?

The contractors at the client company, including me, have been put on a furlough again.

Afghanistan

I received an email about a job in Khabul. The email was clearly a circular so I didn't even bother to reply. The next day I get a call about an interesting opportunity which would particularly suit me due to my background with the company involved. Lots of money, benefits blah blah blah it's in Khabul. I live in the fourth best city in the world. The chances of me having my head cut off whilst being videoed is not high. And as we have Afghan restaurants here (which are very nice) there really is no incentive for me to consider it. So I don't.

Malta

An Englishman contacts me on Xing.com about a position. Turns out he's in Malta but the job is in Munich. I call him. Also turns out that the job is re-advertised and that I had applied for it earlier. Nevertheless he puts my name forward.

Chinese experience

Having made eight business trips to Beijing I know how great the food can be.


As well as having eaten a lot of Chinese food I also worked a lot with people from Beijing and was able to use that fact in my application for a job with a Chinese company today.

I'm getting hungry just thinking about the food actually.