A Successful Day

Today went well. Was up at 8am this morning, showering and ironing, getting ready for my interview today at Phones4U. Was an interesting morning – Phones4U had an admin error regarding some stock that my interviewer, the assistant manager Mark, had to sort out, so my interview was delayed a little. I walked into town, leaving at about half nine. Last time I walked into town it took 40 minutes, so I was hurrying the walk a bit more this morning. I arrived at 10am on the dot (luckily), but due to the stock problem, I was asked to come back in about a quarter of an hour. I went to McDonald’s, bought a coke and sat down to think. Unfortunately the problem seemed bigger and it was about 11am before the interview started. I didn’t mind this, because I was able to listen to a few contract sales around me to give me an insight into the sales process.

The interview went well. I felt I was able to answer Mark’s questions and wasn’t nervous. I don’t seem to get nervous about interviews, however, ask me to do a presentation (powerpoint and such) and my knees quake and I freeze
I asked a few questions about how contract phones are sold, and some of the things behind the scenes – It was straightforward and I now understand how things work in this kind of industry a little more. I was told that they’d get in touch over the coming week – either the store manager or their HR department will give me a call. Hopefully, I will have a job either starting next week or the week after.

My iPod arrived today, and in all honesty, I was overjoyed / relieved that it had finally been delivered. It’s been a while since I bought it, although it was the Royal Mail strikes and backlog that left it ending up in an East London sorting office :/ The iPod itself is gorgeous. It’s sleek, very thin (0.39in / 8mm) and the overall product is worth the hefty price tag. I bought the 16GB version, as it will give me plenty of room for my music, and then some extra room for TV shows or DVD’s that I can convert to mp4 format. I won’t be paying the £1.89 per show price tag per TV show episode off iTunes. I don’t see why you should pay for something I could record of the TV anyway. The iPod has a built in Internet Browser called Safari, a specialised Youtube portal (which is more handy than I thought ), music player (of course), video player and photo slideshows. Other applications include World clock, Timer, Stopwatch, Alarm and Calculator. I uploaded some of my music and converted some of The Simpsons series 16 into mp4 format, so they could play on my iPod. I watched a couple of episodes earlier. Overall verdict is that this nifty little device is awesome. I’ll probably write a longer, more detailed review in a separate post later.

With this last purchase, it means that my eBay feedback rating is now 10 (Yay!) and I have a lovely yellow star next to my name to show how good I am at buying things

By request This is me ready this morning