-5C (23F) here this morning, it wasn’t especially nice at all 🙂 But the sun did show itself and as soon as it did it became rather warm. We walked down to the creek and everywhere the sun hadn’t reached yet was covered in white frost. I only worse a thin anorak but it still rose the temperature beneath it so it almost felt too warm 🙂
I was going to be at the coffin factory at 1pm but they said don’t stress because that’s when the lunch break ends and it will take some time before everyone is working again, that was a good thing to know 🙂 🙂 I had plenty of time when I drove from home and when I reached Falköping I turned on the GPS on the phone and when I did I realised it didn’t work as it should 🙂 🙂 🙂 it refused to show where I was and I could only get instructions on how to get there from Stockholm, our capital around 350 km away 🙂 🙂 🙂
Falköping also seems to be ridiculously bad at putting up the street names so I just couldn’t figure out where I was so I had to call them and ask for directions 🙂 🙂 🙂 Turns out that I had passed the factory twice 🙂 🙂 🙂 This isn’t the first time this has happened to me. When I looked for a job the last time, 18 years ago, I did much the same. That village is tiny and I’ve lived close to it but I just couldn’t find the factory I was looking for, so I drove to another one, the building actually looks more like a office building, to ask for directions. Since I was there I asked if they had a job for someone who worked at Volvo Cars as a painter and assembler for well over twenty years the CEO shouted, our painter is quitting and I haven’t found another, can You start tomorrow 🙂 🙂 I could and stayed there for over 17 years.
Anyway it was a nice little factory with way too much to do and as someone not being there before I couldn’t figure out the logistics in there 🙂 We did the tour and had a chat afterwards. He wanted to know if I would stay until the day I retire and when that would be because he wanted someone who would stay for quite some time. I answered that I’m 60 years old and have no ambition to look for other jobs until I retire, It’s not like I wants to start a career and looking for other jobs 🙂 The pay is more or less what I had but I’ll have a shorter distance to the job. So he said that I’ll know some time next week if I get the job. I usually say that I’ll call at the beginning of the week but that never happens but some time next week at least.
So You will have to continue to have Your fingers crossed and or hold Your thumbs until some time next week 🙂 Now it’s time for that last cup of tea for the day. Tomorrow will be even nice than today and Thursday almost summer like and Friday winter might return 🙂 🙂 To be honest it won’t be that bad but temperatures will drop significant.
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
My goodness, that whole part of the conversation about your age and how long you’d work there would be so illegal in the U.S., if it happened to someone here and they didn’t get the job, they could/probably would sue the employer for age discrimination.
Fingers crossed they think you are young enough to give them enough of your last good working years!
I have a terrible sense of direction. I’m usually able to find a place, but then turning around and going home is where I get lost. Last week I visited a friend who lives in the country maybe even more remote than you. I drove miles and MILES along back roads for nearly an hour, only to reach a pharmacy, where I waited for my friend to come guide me the rest of the way to her house along deeper roads that took still 20 more minutes.
There were houses along the way, but mostly woods. I wondered, where do they go to work and shop? They’re an hour from everything.
Fortunately, my GPS worked to get me to the pharmacy, but my friend told me the route it picked was the longest way to come. Then to go home, she gave me better directions, which the GPS followed to a point, but instead of putting me on the nearest highway, it sent me back to the same back roads I came on, and I was afraid not to follow because my friend was iffy about if she remembered her way correctly. I was never so happy to see a highway when I finally got to it!
I miss maps. Looking at a map, you always know where you are, where you’re headed, and how far. With GPS, you’re just following what it says with no idea where you are or where it’s taking you. It’s like reading a digital clock. You see the numbers and know the time, but it gives you no sense of the passage of time the way hands on a clock do.
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Hi cats working!
I think it might be illegal here too but I understood how he meant, if I start there he wants me to stay for at least five years and I think that might be illegal to say that too 🙂 🙂 🙂 I don’t think my age in itself was something he actually worried about but he wants people who’ll stick around for a long time and that’s rather unusual these days, for some reason they want. people to not stay at one place for too long. Can’t figure out why that is a good idea though 🙂 🙂 🙂
🙂 🙂 it does sound as if they live more remote than I do 🙂 🙂 If I have plenty of time I’ll often just drive around in the direction I’ve been told and that usually takes a much longer time 🙂 🙂 The good thing is that if I’ve been at a place once, even to a cottage in the middle of nowhere I alway find my way back, it is finding the place the first time that’s my problem 🙂 🙂
I do miss maps too! All small places were named on them so as long as one found those on the maps one knew that one was on the right way!
I’ve never liked digital clocks 🙂 🙂
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My father worked for the same company his whole career from the time he was about 19 years old. He retired as a manager in his early 50s because they kicked out everyone in middle management above a certain age. He could have kept working somewhere else, but I think having his loyalty thrown back in his face broke something in his self-esteem. He never got over it.
In those days, if your resume (CV) showed you had a lot of short jobs, it was a red flag that you were not dependable or any good. I had one year in my 20s where I had 4 jobs, from one bad situation to the next. It was always a question: Do I include them on the resume and explain, or leave them off and maybe look like I was in jail or a nut house for a year? I usually included them.
But then attitudes changed and it became GOOD to have lots of jobs. You looked like a schmuck if you stayed with one place too long. Like you had no ambition, or desire to learn new things, or were too set in your ways.
I’m so glad to be retired now. I freelanced for the last 23 years, so my job history became irrelevant. Clients didn’t care because they hired me only for short projects, and I was my own boss, and I didn’t care!
Sounds like this company wants people to stay and know the work inside out, and you seem to be a person who doesn’t hop jobs at all, so it sounds like a good match. Hope you get good news next week.
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It was the same here but then, for a reason I have absolutely no clue about, politicians started to sat young people didn’t want steady jobs but loved being hired for projects, for a shorter or longer time. Of course they didn’t because it turns out they aren’t allowed to take out loans to buy homes if they don’t have a steady job. Politicians (mostly right wing politicians of Cours) continued with this lie for quite some time but thankfully I haven’t heard about it in a while now.
They do want people to stay and if I get that job I will, too old to change job now days 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Christer, I will be keeping my fingers crossed when I am not using them for other things 😀. It sounded like the man is really interested in hiring you and hope that you get a call sooner than next week.
The older a person gets the harder it can be to find a job, yet employers should recognize that older workers tend to stay at their jobs and not move around as often as a younger employee might do.
Good luck and keep us posted when you hear, one way or another. By the way, I have missed reading some posts and so didn’t know that you were looking for a job at a coffin factory, is that correct?
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Hi Beatrice!
Thank You 🙂
Yes, as soon as one pass 60 it does get harder. Younger people now days have a tendency to believe they all can become successful influencers so staying at a job for a longer period of time isn’t anything for them, then again older people tends to get more serious diseases so the employers really don’t know what to do 🙂 🙂 🙂
I don’t think I’ve written anything about that job here, really didn’t think they would even think of hiring me 🙂 🙂 🙂
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