Well...since I've had a pretty eventful weekend I thought I'd sum it up here for all of you lovely people to ignore
Well I was in Sheffield on Thursday having spent most of last week drinking, and doing a *little* bit of money work as I'm now exceptionally poor again. I got to re-design/implement the homepage of
http://www.findatrade.com and this week I get to launch it live on the french version of the site.
Thursday evening I drove home to Long Buckby and on Friday I drove to pick my friend up from near Warwick to take him to iLite. We got there at about pm, so just in time for the England game - which we watched on a big screen - playing the football drinking game where you get given a number and when that player touches the ball - you have to drink your drink. If they score then you down your drink and if your player gets sent off (carded) then you have to drink a dirty pint. It was a good laugh - shame about the result though.
On saturday we played TF2 where I managed to top the leaderboard playing spy
(the quality of the players there was MUCH MUCH lower than on the WDG servers
). Also played some BC2 and on saturday night we played CS:S Hide n Seek - forgot how much fun that was and it was the cause of much shouting across the hall as players were running around as telephones
I also got to play a fair amount of Company of Heroes as that's what my friend plays mostly. Also played a big of Gun Game - and remembered just how much I sucked/suck at CS:S
One of the guys there was offering to draw on people's cases - so I got him to draw a couple of Koi carp on my side window - which I think was pretty cool
Also on the Saturday we got to have a go at the Projector Games which is basically a massive projector screen, with about 30 controllers in front of it playing a series of sort of mini-games such as a co-op zombie thing, a plane flying/race thing and a game called fall-down with everyone playing on the same screen at once. It was a lot of fun and I hope they bring it to i40 as well.
Cos it was the Be competition - I got given a goodie bag with a T-Shirt, can of Red Bull, 1Gb memory stick, a load of stickers and a travel pillow thing in it which was pretty cool
On Sunday it was mostly more of the same and we packed up and left mid-afternoon so I could get home in plenty of time to drive down before my job interview.
After I got home and had dinner on Sunday I drove down to Crawley near Gatwick airport to stay at a hotel before my job interview, as I didn't really want to drive down the M1 & around the M25 in the morning rush hour. Watched 'Failure to Launch' and then went to bed.
Woke up at 7am, had a fairly crappy shower and when I ran the hot tap to have a shave, cold water came out with a very suspicious yellowy-tint and bits floating around in it - and it stank of sewerage, it made me wretch a little from the smell. Decided not to try that again so shaved using the cleaner looking cold water tap. Had the cooked breakfast and then headed off for my interview. I think that's the first time I've ever booked myself into a proper hotel (albeit not a great one
).
Turned up at the interview and was met by a pretty hot receptionist, although as it's an engineering company - I think I probably met the only girl even in the company. Had to do a technical test straight away. I was told in an email that this would be a series of maths questions and a calculator would be provided. Turned out it was a pretty full on test of Electronic, Mechanical and Control engineering (even spotting errors in wiring diagrams & C code). I wrote something for every question - and most of it looked familiar - but I couldn't remember things from like 1st year of my Uni course so don't think I did amazingly well.
I then had a 10 minute tour of the company and it looked really good - would like the job tbh.
Then I had the interview. Oh God. Had another pretty epic grilling - like the written test but even worse. I answered a few of the peoples questions pretty well. One of the Lecturers from the Uni gave me an absolute grilling and I could hardly answer any of his questions. Basically they were asking me to remember *everything* from *every* module I've done since 1st year of Uni and I couldn't remember a lot of it. Some things came back to me after a while but it was an epic slog. They asked if I had any questions at the end of the interview and I should have prepared some - I didn't even ask when I'd be starting :/ I was nervous and a little sketchy on some of my answers - and they definitely picked up on it. GARGH.
First interview for a proper engineering job though. I'll find out at the end of the week if I've got it apparently.
By this evening I will be back in Sheffield, having driven over 700 miles since Thursday evening (which is costing me a fortune in petrol...even in my 1.1L Pug) and I will be going out and getting pissed
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