Taken for a ride

Ever feel like you just been made a fool of?

Silly question really, coz we have all felt that at one time or another. Luckily for me in this situation, I found out before I actually lost out on anything.

I was applying for jobs online (through legitimate job websites) and i applied for a web design job that was aimed at both experienced and inexperienced people with aim to training. I applied. A week later I receive a phone call from a rather posh Englishman who seemed to be very interested in my employment status. He was very pleasant and interested in what I had to say.

He asks me if I would be interested in an online telephone interview 2 days later. Of course I accepted, feeling rather headhunted and important.

The night before I expected the call, my dad informs me through his research into the company name, it's been rumoured to be a scam?!

I have a browse through such forum threads by people who had had the exact same experience as me (all looking for a job). If I am just another desperate person in their scam, they're just about to ask me for £79 each month to be trained.

Have a look for yourselves:
careerjobsuk.com/index.php &
certforums.co.uk/forums/thread42901.html

After what I read, I have to say to you all: stay away from this program! Avoid contact and certainly DO NOT give them any bank details!

Job Hunt

I'm currently on the hunt for the perfect job (for the time being). I know that God will provide a job that will be exactly what I need to be doing in this season of life, but I don't know where that is. It's funny, I call it the perfect job, yet employers are looking through hundreds of people to find the perfect applicant.

It's times like this when I remember that I am the righteousness of God through Christ, being an heir of God and fellow-heir with Christ. This all means favour from God that I should be expecting.
I'm not gonna lie, it's difficult. How, I may ask, can I be favoured as a so far unsuccessful applicant? This is where real faith needs to come in. I see the end of myself and my abilities in this search, therefore I look to God.
Not that He does ALL the work for me, but that He guides the search in a more fruitful direction. This way I don't have to look harder, just smarter.
God gave me a brain, I must use it to its full potential.

As Deborah Ong says "God put your brain on top of your body. Be smart! Don't be stupid!."

Iain's Insomniac Imaginarium

I know that title sounds...well interesting, but really it's all my head is coming out with at this time of night. Serves me right!

It's 2.45am and I am at my most productive stage of the day. Bizarre eh?
Albeit, I did only wake up at 12pm but I am still awake at Silly o'clock (which my my new definition is just over an hour away from Stupid o'clock).
I remain positive about this though, since arriving home at 1am, which didn't help matters, I have applied for 2 jobs and had an audible "gander" at Ellie Goulding's album on Spotify. Which is not too bad, seems like a grower to me in comparison to my sudden great interest in Tinie Tempah and Frankmusik.

While I'm on a reviewing streak, today I began the glorious 177mins of The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, Heath Ledger's actual swansong film. I'll admit that the only thing attracting me to it was curiosity of how they covered up his demise with 3 re-casts (Johnny Depp, Jude Law & Colin Farrell). Yet strangley it was a good watch. The storyline is not the strongest, but it makes up for it in visuals and imagination, funnily enough. My dreams are gonna be fun whenever I decide to actually sleep. A bit like a certain Sam Gallagher, look up his blog for more.

Anyway, I'll now make the foot and a half journey to my bed.
This is an odd way of looking at the Psalm when it says
"pain may last through the night, but joy comes in the morning".