As of Monday, July 30 the Klamers of Oz are a double income family. The reason for this is that today Nadia landed herself a job. Not only did she find a job but it's almost the perfect job. She will be working at a medical audiology service where she will be doing some basic accounting, filing, office admin, customer service and dealing with hearing aid and cochlear impants. For the first 6 weeks she will go through training and an evaluation period and as a result it is a full time position. After 6 weeks it moves to 3 days a week (Wednesday to Friday). Her office is located in West Perth which is outside of the core but still relatively central. Her office location is actually very good as it's a metropolitan area but not plagued with traffic and parking issues. The Calgary equivalent would be working on 17th Avenue or Kensington. Not only does Nadia get to take advantage of her experience at the hearing clinic in Calgary but this will also allow her to get some office experience and will broadly expand her marketability.
The process of getting this job was interesting if not a little stressful. Nadia has been actively looking for 2 months. In many cases she was applying for positions that she was perfectly capable of but she didn't even get a call back. In some cases, the employment ad specified that only Australian residents were to apply. She applied for many jobs and was lucky if she even got a rejection notice. In the case of this particular position, she only saw the job ad the day after the posting closed. However, she took the initiative to call the number provided anyways and as a result got an interview yesterday. Very fortunate since they were about to hire someone that they selected during the interviews. This morning they called and informed her that she was the succesful candidate and she starts work on Monday. It's almost like it was meant to be, if you were inclined to believe in that fatalistic type of nonsense.
It will mean that the rest of us will have to make some minor sacrifices but I'm willing for the kids to do that.
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