And so it happens.

Yip... it is affirmative. I have a job. Hurray !!!

The contracts and the agency will be going through the approval process tomorrow at the consultancy that I am running the limited company through that'll handle payments and the likes. I will also be briefed on how things will have to run from here on end. That'll happen tomorrow though, today.. I feel good :)

The lowdown : Went for the interview this morning, got there and learnt from my previous experience on last Friday ( still need to blog about it ), and spoke nicely and slowly. Rounding out my words (not like I used to do at Flatspin where I would normally just run through words and have no one understand me.

To be honest : I had a hunch that these guys were looking for someone with a lot more JavaScript capability, which I had used a lot on client side DHTML, and was a bit rusty on (ever since learning that they want me for the job I'm getting a lot of resources down here to hit the learning curve in the next few days). I had thought that the interview went ok, but they were interviewing another guy later today as well, and somehow I thought he might have had more experience than me. And so I got home thinking it was a kewl interview, had fun talking to the guys, but I was expecting the normal call of "Hi Hendrik, I'm sorry to say but they've opted with the other candidate." Which in all honesty I would have understood completely.

So.. come around 16:00 and I hadn't heard from the agent at all I gave her a call to find out if she had heard from the client.. nope.. but she would phone me as soon as she knew. Being that the interview stopped around 11:00 in the morn I wasn't to optimistic, could you blame me.

17:00, agent phones up and says they are really keen and want to know if I would join them for drinks on Friday (this was due to a quark in the interview, but I'll blog about that another time). I said I'll phone the agent back in a little, just needed some time to talk things through with Grea and make sure I was doing the right thing.. at the rate they are paying me, I am :)

So ya.. contracts tomorrow, drinks with the team on Friday and come Monday morning a really nice steep learning curve comes my way :) And to be honest, I can't wait, I've been waiting for a nice challenge in coding for a while, this (along with the fact that I am set on learning .NET in the next 6 months, all be it on my own time [ Grieks says she wants to learn with me.. who can ask for more in a girlfriend ? :) ],) will be a great time for both of us ahead.

Well.. off to bed.. I need some sleep after a good day.

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