I’ve got a job

Yes, it’s official now. The postman came and knocked my door very loudly this morning, maybe he knew it was an important delivery - the employment contract from Bloomberg!

Everything comes too quick for me to realise it was true. I only submitted my CV last Monday, and the people from agency called me up last Thursday saying that they wanted me to go to London for an interview on Friday - the next day! But of course I bought the ticket right away and went down the next morning. It was an opportunity and I knew I need to catch it. The whole interview went very well. It wasn’t as hard as I thought, or maybe it was Friday afternoon and they were too tired to ask some difficult questions for me. But what I didn’t expect was that after I walked back to my agency office, they called straight away and just gave me an offer! It took me quite a while to realise it was true, and the Japanese lady in the office double confirmed to me “yes, yes, yes!”. I was very excited. That was like those moments of the life that you will never forget.

I wrote a long entry in my Chinese blog to detail the whole process of my interview and everything, so just let me be lazy with the English one. But I still like to share this good news here with my friends and my blog readers! This week has been another highlights of my life since I came abroad (the others were when the I got an offer from Durham, and Jenn said yes when I asked her out for a dinner :). I sometimes smile by myself when walking alone, I am just purely happy. Getting a job in the UK for a foreign student isn’t easy, and getting a good one is ever harder. But I luckily managed to have one :)

For the next weeks I will have a real holiday while learning some job-related stuff by myself. Still need to wait until I am issued a work permit, then I will be started working in London. Oh yes, need to find a house as well. It seems a lot of things to do, but it’s all good! Now I’m just hoping to get a work permit without any big problems.