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The road to employment is a long and fraught one. After the end of varsity in 1997, I decided to stay on in Dunedin and job hunt. That time, it took just over six months of "government collection" and part-time work before a sneaky Taskforce Green subsidy (which was clearly not used for the purposes its creators had in mind!) got me into full-time work at the University of Otago's Management Department. The next big career hurdle was the search for work in London in March of 2000 and, to my eternal gratitude, occured at a time where there was a plethora of straight-forward HTML-coding work going around (talk about good timing). That hunt was over and done with in a little over four weeks.

I guess I never really knew what to expect when I ended up on my home turf again. Would it be a protracted experience? Or something quick and painless? Well, the two decided to fight it out and I ended up somewhere in the middle. I applied, and was turned down for, work as a Parliamentary Officer (Select Committees), Strategic Analyst, Analyst (Corporate Reporting), Advisory Officer, Research Analyst, Legal Information Officer, Administrator (Research and Equity), Research Communication Co-ordinator, Legal Information and Research Officer/Librarian, Legal Publication Officer, Information Analyst, Reporting Analyst, Policy Analyst and Assistant Crown Counsel. There were only two interviews out of all those applications and there's also another seven of the bloody things still in being considered.

But all that doesn't really matter anymore. As of next Wednesday, I'm officially an Analyst for one of the Government's major social service ministries ... and I'm bloody chuffed with that. Total time to find? Around two and a half months. Frustrating, yes ... but it sure feels good to be back in the land of the working.
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