Annual Tax Rant

I hate paying money to figure out how much I money I have to pay.

It's like paying in advance for the privledge of spending a week to plan your own mugging, then mailing the money to the mugger who can't be arsed to show up.

Big Interview Tonight

Tonight at seven o'clock is interview number two for the job in Wellington. I spent yesterday evening preparing for it, writing myself notes on all the usual interview-y kind of questions (there are advantages to phone interviews - being able to discreetly refer to notes is a big one).

Wow. That was a hell of an interview.

I was on the phone for an hour. It was what they called a "Behavioural Event Interview". In a nutshell, imagine all the most difficult interview questions you have ever had to deal with like, "Give me an example of where you were wrong and what you did about it" and "Tell us about the progress you are making in achieving your goals and how you go about evaluating your achievements" all run them all together for an hour while the course of the rest of your life hangs in the balance. I think I did well. I was prepared for just about all the questions. I've certainly got enough life and work experience to draw on. But, holy cow, that was an exhausting, nerve wracking experience.