Indeed- Lived and worked in manchester for a number of years running bars. I'd say it's got the same attitude as London, in the sense it's all spread out. And yes access to Liverpool and access to Wigan gets you to Ireland and Scotland in around 3 to four hours depending on connections.

London is full of foreigners, the Koreans wouldn't like it there!

This fan death thing is rather intruiging

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

I lived & worked in Manchester for 6 years, absolutely loved it, great place as long as you avoid the obvious dodgy areas (and unless you're from one of them to begin with it's unlikely you'd ever set foot in them anyway). Doesn't rain all the time, would say it's a lot warmer than Newcastle but Newcastle gets more sun / has less constant grey clouds.

Screen golf, Shabby?

Edit: I didn't say any of that stuff M0stly harm13ss has quoted me as saying.

Manchester is nice.

Yes i'm sure. I'm not in Manchester either but my missus lives there. It's nice you know.

M0stly harm13ss wrote:

adored wrote:

Occasionally (and only occassionally) I love my job. Last week I got to sack someone I couldn't stand after his 2 previous managers had failed to deal with him properly. Today I find out that his replacement is a part time model of the suicide girls type and have just spent a while looking at a selection of rather delightful shots of her in the altogether.

I hate you....

I'm ok with that right now.

Lol.
Hope you hear something positive man.
I have a few friends in that field, it sounds a lot like my field.
CVs are there for facts, interviews are there to see if they want to go to the pub with you. Sounds like you nailed it in that respect.

So, didnt get the job but " I'd like to offer you the opportunity for free lance work in the future and the possibly of a call back if things don't work out with our current crew "

Had to chase him up too, left hanging for 2 weeks when he must have known at least a week ago. Fuck sakes. Disappointed I didnt get the job but more pissed off with how no one ever seems to get back to you without needing to be chased. 

Ergghh.

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

Any thoughts on living/working in Manchester?

You should do it.

Do it while riding a shark.

Facewon wrote:

Writing grant applications for charities is not that exciting.

Although getting them done is nice.

Anyhoo. My current paid employment is just chugging along. Part time, basically mornings only. Enough to cover rent and stuff and with some purse tightening, the missus and I are still getting by. As mentioned in the coffee thread (which I started), looking for a change of scene. Kinda been looking at cafe work, but don't want to quit what I'm doing just yet, at the same time I started looking at the coffee angle, I started volunteering for Helping Hoops (I'll be hitting you lot up for sponsorship when we do our next 24 hour shootout). Figured that it was just a good thing to be doing, but the opportunities seem to be opening quicker down the basketball route than I expected.

Am now volunteering in the office, hunting for grants, helping with whatever I can, and I can't tell you how much nicer it is to be working with a small group and for something that you're actually passionate about.

We've just run out of funding (hopefully briefly) for the thursday night group that I was helping with, so it's only Mondays now. I feel on a mission to get that funding back. (Thankfully, the exec director looks like he's already found replacement funding which should be a little more consistent. Hopefully that will mean the thursdays have only been dropped for 3 weeks.)

Feel better placed to put a time frame on leaving my current paid work, and also feel happy that working in basketball somehow isn't actually that far fetched.

Are you serious?
Of course that's sexual harrassment.  Pretty serious too, by the sounds of it.  She could take them to the cleaners, if she can provide evidence that will stand up at a tribunal.