Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas

To whom it may concern,

Merry Christmas.

Things are finally getting moving.
1. My eyes. I can see 100% with my right eye, which means that I have on average -4 on my eyes. It is so strange to wake up in the morning and being able to see clearly. I am not allowed to be on the sun too much and I do feel like a vampire once in a while. The second eye should be up and running on the 5th of January.
2. My job. I got a contract! I got a contract! My coming boss was so interested in me working for the company (I am not! revealing the name of it yet!) that the whole process of hiring was in a matter of a week. And that is before Christmas! I got a contract in my hands 23rd of December. I am looking forward for the coming position. By the way, I got another proposal (yes, during the Christmas and financial crisis!) from Danish FSA (yep, me, not a Dane! Yes!) but the salary is way too low. The difference is literally 10000 kroner a month! (1300 euro!) so even the other job seemed very interesting and challenging (going to European Central Bank and so) I am going to say "no" to that one.
3. Off to Zurich again, but this time is not on business. David is dying to see pingos walking in the zoo and I am looking forward to see the fireworks. I got myself a great photo camera, so I will try to use it to get some awesome pictures!
4. Abby is turning 2 in 3 days. Oh my goodness, she is big! Lots of people around me keeping telling me that I should have a little sister for her. Oh no! I want my freedom, I got a cool job, I want to travel and to play Mario on Wii. When will I do that with 2 small kids?
5. David is doing quite good in school. His French has improved a lot since I told him to speak only french in school. Hopefully we will be going for a week to France in April-may so it will help him even more.
See you in 2010!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Interviews

Well, since 3 weeks have passed and things have started to change.

I have been called into interviews to the 6, I would say, good companies.
1). CODAN (an international life insurance for both residential and business customer)
2). ATP (Lifelong Pension fund).
3). Danish Nationalbank
4). WHO (World Health Organization, part of UN)
5). Nordea Bank
6). The Danish FSA (part of the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs and acts as secretariat for the Financial Business Council, the Danish Securities Council and the Money and Pension Panel.)

Of course, going to the interviews does not garantee anything. But I am trying to look positive as much as a can.

On the top of that, I have an opportunity to take a Ph.D.