The Italian Job
Well, on Monday I flew over to Rome Ciampino for the purpose of attending a day visit at Proctor and Gamble's Pomezia site on the Tuesday. Yes, they invited me over in the hope I would be who they wanted to fill a particular vacancy.
So, after getting to my hotel around 8pm, seeing the Italian version of Deal or no deal (third country, after Oz and UK in which I've seen this, evidently very popular game), I went to sleep. I got up at 6.30 am local time, showered, dressed and had some breakfast. Then the taxi arrived to take me to P+G.
I got there about 9 am, waited until ~ 9.30 then gave a presentation on my PhD work which lasted over an hour, including questions. It went ok, which it should have done - I'd plenty of presentation practice and had spent a couple of weeks writing/learning this talk. The questions were a mixed bag - some fine, some foucussing on areas of which I wasn't sure.
Anyway, 30 mins after that finished I had the first of two hour long interviews. These both went fine. I was happy, and hungry by the end and was taken for lunch in the site canteen and then given a tour of the (small) R+D department within which the job would be.
After that I went to the airport where I had to wait for over 8 hours due to delays etc before getting a very nice, clear flight home (where I got to see the Eiffel tower from 39,000 Feet!).
Anyway, a day or two later I was offered the job - woah! I wasn't expecting that. Anyway, here I am, trying to work out the following:
1) Do I want to do this work (not sure)
2) Do I want to work in Italy (Yes, that would be great - Golaccio! - apart from not being in the same country as Katie)
3)Can I finish my thesis whilst working full time, in a foreign country, where I don't yet speak the language?
Who knows. I need to decide and give them an answer by Monday though. Ho hum.
Godfather.
So, after getting to my hotel around 8pm, seeing the Italian version of Deal or no deal (third country, after Oz and UK in which I've seen this, evidently very popular game), I went to sleep. I got up at 6.30 am local time, showered, dressed and had some breakfast. Then the taxi arrived to take me to P+G.
I got there about 9 am, waited until ~ 9.30 then gave a presentation on my PhD work which lasted over an hour, including questions. It went ok, which it should have done - I'd plenty of presentation practice and had spent a couple of weeks writing/learning this talk. The questions were a mixed bag - some fine, some foucussing on areas of which I wasn't sure.
Anyway, 30 mins after that finished I had the first of two hour long interviews. These both went fine. I was happy, and hungry by the end and was taken for lunch in the site canteen and then given a tour of the (small) R+D department within which the job would be.
After that I went to the airport where I had to wait for over 8 hours due to delays etc before getting a very nice, clear flight home (where I got to see the Eiffel tower from 39,000 Feet!).
Anyway, a day or two later I was offered the job - woah! I wasn't expecting that. Anyway, here I am, trying to work out the following:
1) Do I want to do this work (not sure)
2) Do I want to work in Italy (Yes, that would be great - Golaccio! - apart from not being in the same country as Katie)
3)Can I finish my thesis whilst working full time, in a foreign country, where I don't yet speak the language?
Who knows. I need to decide and give them an answer by Monday though. Ho hum.
Godfather.
