something different

I found a job.

I am temping at one of SA's biggest ISPs as a Recruitment Specialist. I don't know what's funnier - that I'm working for an ISP or that I'm a 'Recruitment Specialist'. I hadn't realised that I was a specialist at anything, let alone recruitment. And an ISP? I've sold out!

It is going well, though I hate doing things that I don't enjoy doing and this is one of them. I have to wake up at the crack of dawn, sit in traffic there and back and interview most of the day. If only most of the candidates were any good - I'd be laughing! Apart from the moaning it is good that I am working. It's made me see another side to South Africa that I had only glimpsed before and opened my eyes to the harsh reality of the employment sector here. I feel lucky that I was hired so easily. OK, so it is only a temp job, but others struggle to find even that; especially with BEE.

Besides recruitment, I have also applied for a job with an NGO called Noah as a Research Assistant. I have my second interview on Monday. The woman who interviewed me the first time round seemed very concerned that I was going to up and leave SA at the drop of a hat and that I was going to get bored in the role.

But no one understands. This is my second home.