Feeling a bit wobbly about tomorrow!

I just hope that the ironing does not include the old man's shirts and I am not talking about Mr. P!

You are right Nonu !

jingl wrong! I'm not that "precious" ! For now, if I'm asked to clean bogs (as you put it) then bogs I will clean!

Oh my, where did it all go so wrong, one minute dealing with clients such as British Gas, Unilever, National Lottery, Nuffield health & Confused.com, the next cleaning, ironing and checking if enough bog rolls have been supplied to villa Cloud 9 !

(Must have done something v. bad in previous life!)

pheonix its just a journey, its a bit bumpy at the moment, it will pass. do not think about what was, that will not help you. Better things await you, Believe

phoenix There's no shame in cleaning toilets.
I went from being the (working) wife of a millionaire to working behind a bar and cleaning the pub, including the mens' toilets!
A job is a job and you need the money

Lona you are so right. Respect

Oh heavens, I thought I had explained that I didn't have a problem with cleaning toilets, or anything else for that matter!

I know you meant that, please please don't take what I said the wrong way.

newist Don't be daft! And I hope that you don't take that in the wrong way!

Dear phoenix XXX

Nah Phoenix you just chose to live in beautiful part of the country with not many jobs (in this life) and then the banking crisis happened and there were even fewer jobs. If you lived in MK you would have job offers coming out of your ears.

@ phoenix. I knew you meant that too phoenix, I was just backing you up!

The title should stand you in good stead for any future job applications, though. After all it could have been an employer who chose to call you 'cleaner'.

Yes, where you live isn't helpful. My sister bought a house nearby, in deepest rural Suffolk, because as she travelled around the UK seeing clients in the southeast it didn't really matter where she lived, she was fed up with London and her head office was in Herts. She had only been up here for six months and her department was closed. She tried to get all manner of jobs, even a cleaner in a local home for mental health patients for which she would have first had to take a course in self-defense, but now finds herself in the position of only being home at weekends and having to sleep on various friends' and family's sofas while she is back working in London.

I did warn her that the only avaiable jobs up here, apart from chicken-catching, were either picking cabbages or looking after them, but she didn't believe me. She has a beautiful house, but of course can't sell it.

So, fingers crossed for next week, but maybe you will enjoy working for the eccentric, who knows?

Good luck with your other interview Phoenix because unsure that working for anyone as mad as a box of frogs could work well.You need to know where you are with people and have boundaries. A friend of mine worked for a very eccentric person once who was either giving her presents or asking her to do other people's work and was infuriating.It's a job for now, but keep looking for other things.

Just tell yourself that cleaning is therapeutic and remember to take your rubber gloves!

What's all the fuss about cleaning toilets? It's not as if any of us have never done it before!

Believe me Phoenix as an ex nurse, I have had to clean a lot worse than a toilet

Chin up, it's a means to an end.

How did the second day go, phoenix?

Hi phoenix I've only just caught up with this as we've been in Suffolk with a howling which kept blowing the connection away!

Hope you are enjoying the work experience. In my experience mad as a box of frogs in ok. We used to count Mum in numbers of boxes eg 12 = really, really bad!!!!

Day 2 in the phoenix new job house (think the Geordie accent of the Big Brother House thing) still alive!

Trying to overcome the glaringly obvious things (38 "villas", filing alphabetically ? No, of course not! Filed in a list that runs as to when they were built Have asked "Why?" Told "well,
we have always done it like this" Suggested that it might be changed, response? "Well, you can try, but the owner will not have it!) Aaaaargh!

Big shouty capitals alert! *JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALWAYS DONE IT LIKE THAT, DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU SHOULD, OR THAT IT IS THE BEST WAY!

And breathe...............

Onwards and upwards phoenix - just change the thing and when he complains just and remind him that he's employing you for your skills and filing is one of them.
Seriously, it's early days yet and it'll take a while to iron out the wrinkles. (Did you see what I did there?)

just go with the flow Pho !

How is it going Pheonix?

Hope everything is going ok phoenix. Well, it is Friday!!

I am currently enjoying a glass of Sauvignon Blanc

Absolutely positive that this job is NOT for me, but will keep going for now!

Cheers all!

Cheers phoenix someone has to do it!

What? Drink the wine ?