A non-food related TT this week!
9 months after quitting my job in New York, getting married to the BF of 5 years, relocating to Dubai, and taking the time to explore a new country, I am just about to say goodbye to the life of leisure and embark on a new job, new career, and [...]
Just a quick post to say that this past Wednesday (1.5 weeks after I received my offer letter) I received my employment contract and am now due to start work on Monday, June 15th – WOOHOO!!!
I got my offer letter yesterday from the company I had interviewed with – yay!! After my last interview, they said the offer letter would be forthcoming in a day or two but that was 2.5 weeks ago. Things are definitely slow here. My husband waited over a month before his offer letter and contract [...]
It’s been exactly two months since I started looking for work in Dubai and there has been some developments since the last round of rejection emails. A very very good development actually. Last Wednesday I was offered a job position and I accepted! Woo-hoo!
But I am superstitious so until I get the actual [...]
I went to Smiling BKK by Al Wasl road for some Thai food last week. The food was disgusting so don’t even think of going there unless you are a glutton for punishment or do not care about eating good food. Consider yourself warned.
I did however enjoy the Thai iced tea. It reminded [...]
Last night, I received my second rejection email from a company that I had sent my resume to. It was from a recruitment company that had advertised on RecruitGulf.com. They said they were in constant need of candidates to fill temp positions so I thought: Hey, I’ll send them my resume since all [...]
We are back from St. Moritz, Switzerland and had a wonderful time skiing/snowboarding, eating lots of fondue, raclette, PORK sausages, drinking Braulio (yuck!), catching up with friends and meeting new ones.
More details and photos later as I’m supposed to be working on my resume right now. The deal was that I would start looking [...]