Το φιτρί αγόρι (colourful life)

I expected the search of a job in a different country to be a difficult task. And it was. I was almost two months sending CV’s. In the beginning, the July/August period (vacations), made the things more difficult: no one was answering. After that, I had a week of interviews, but with not so much luck. Thanks to www.kariera.gr for their webpage (that don’t work really well with safari).

I made some expectations about a job in a travel agency named <censored>, but after developing some kind of test application to evaluate me, and send it to them, I lost contact. So I suppose I was tricked to fix a problem they had for free. Too many mails that “were lost” and calls telling me “we haven’t received it”. But it was uploaded in their servers and they closed my account. (Still you can see it here, last cheched on 25/09/2007, and the url it’s not the name of the company ).

After this slap in the face, I made 3 interviews in one week in “an Internet Service Provider” They went really well, and it seemed a nice place to start my career in Greece. They forgot about me during two weeks, but they called me on Sunday to start on Wednesday, and on Tuesday I was there with a minimalist contract in Greek and ready to sign.

I felt a bit pressed, because I didn’t have the opportunity to think about it, and also ask my Greek friends about if it was complete or not. But I signed because it seemed a good opportunity.

The first strange thing was that nobody told me when to start, even when they called me to confirm if I could start on a specific day, they didn’t say anything about the time, and I had to ask. And still now I have to “ask” to leave, well, I can leave whenever I want but… I guess that if I do my 8 hours and leave the people will look at me really strange.

Well, yesterday (24/09) I did 14 hours here (and I’ll get paid and today(25/09) I’m doing arround 13. Of course each day day more tired, and working more slow. To do the same work, it takes more time, and you end up leaving late (everything starts again).

The good thing is the people. They’re very friendly and they can help you to find the right path if you’re lost. But even if all of them are lovely… I don’t know if the company deserves this effort.

I hope to write again soon