girlofprey

There's really just not a lot of jobs out there. Once you narrow it down to part-time, temporary, in the right location (Humberside, jobsite? Why?), hours that don't make it a nightmare to travel back and forth to, and reception work, I tend to get down to a couple of pages of jobs pretty quickly. Of those, a bunch will be pretty long-term temporary contracts, or just for a couple of months longer than I'm really looking for. There was one that finished on the 31st October, actually, but it was at Leeds-Bradford airport, and involved trying to get there on a Sunday morning for 11am. And then back again at 7 o'clock at night. Which is not terribly doable from where I am.

The most luck I've had was calling up about one vacancy to make sure it was outdated and speaking to the recruitment site that posted it, who asked me to email my CV just so I'd be on bank for their company in general. And I get the feeling that just means I'd be doing temp work, days here and there again, which I don't really want to do. Other than that, I've applied for a couple of jobs that might fit the bill yesterday, and today I went through two job sites in under an hour without really finding anything else. I'm not sure what else I can do to fill five hours a day, really.

We've got an electrical storm flashing disco lights across the sky where we are. No rain, no thunder, but on just one side of the house there's sheet lightning flashing across the sky once every few minutes. It's pretty awesome.

Anyway. In what I'm sure is more interesting news than my job-hunt, I decided the computer that the guy in my computer games' shop's mum was selling wasn't really for me. I started looking at some of the new games coming out that I wasn't even paying attention to, because I didn't have a machine that could play them, and a lot of them need a much more powerful processor. His mum's only had Intel i3, which is what my laptop actually has at the moment. So I said thanks but no, and that I'd have to go to PC World instead, and he said you were generally better off and saved more money by building your own. So...I'm thinking about it. If it's cheaper, I may as well. It's a lot easier to get parts than I thought, Amazon literally sells them off individually, but none of the sites I've seen so far in my search for 'how to build a gaming PC' actually tell you how to build a gaming PC. It's just 'pitfalls for the beginner to avoid', not literally how the nuts and bolts screw together. So I'm continuing to search. Because I'm a fool who always wants to go big or go home, I have my heart set on an Intel i7 processor. The rest of the parts are to be confirmed, i.e. whatever some site tells me are the best ones. A site like techradar or pcgamer though. I'm not a total mug.