Creating New Habits

Disclaimer: I won't take any responsibility for spelling errors and other mistakes in the following text, I am not 100% sober.

So, it is pretty much 3 months since last i wrote something here, Life in Canada have not turned out as well as I hoped it would, in the end I have been somewhat lucky though. For the last three months I have been seeing a chiropractor to help me with my Sciatic nerve. I can happily assume that it doesn't hurt all the time, I can also say that it isn't 100% gone and it troubles me a bit every day.

Anyway, at first I was optimistic that the recommendations that the doctor gave me would be enough, is sounded cheap so I tried it. Laying on my back with something under my knees to give them the right positions, I was hoping for that for way to long, and when I finally contacted a chiropractic it took another 2 weeks before I was allowed to resume work. Now that would have been alright if I would have been able to return to work, but the economic crash hit and I was told that there was no work available for me, we had hit early November and I understood it from my boss that he was waiting for a delivery. I had to wait another 2 weeks before he called me and said that the order we were hoping for fell through. I had been miss informed. Had I understood that he was waiting for another order I could have done something about it in late October already.

Anyway, I go out and start contacting the local shops and store keepers in Gibsons, but being such a small community most of the shops had laid of workers to survive this new economic development. Safe to say there were no work avalible for me.

I also got in contact with the company who helped me get my first job. I contacted them to see if there was any help to expect from them since I've already paid them a lot of money once one would hope they would have a safety net in place for ppl like me who've crossed an Atlantic ocean and a continent to come to Canada, they didn't and it took them over a week to tell me that. So more time lost.

I started preparing to return home, when a guy calls me to tell me that he has a job opening in Vancouver for me.

(Later I realized he worked for the company who helped me get the first job, I don't know why they helped me, I haven't paid any more yet for their help.)
I venture into Vancouver to talk to this guy on a Sunday and somewhere we have managed to miss-communicate, he thought I lived in Vancouver, witch I wasn't. So there was no interview for me that day. The next they we book the meeting and I spend the day updating and polishing my resume and getting ready. That Tuesday i arrive in Vancouver in time for my interview, in fact I am 2 hours early, so I spend that time floating around in a local mall looking at everything and nothing.

When I arrive at the Interview It took me 45 minutes of paper work and interviews to convince them that I am the man they want to hire. Now to the next problem, I'm gonna go nuts if I have to communicate between Sunshine coast and Vancouver, so they are really nice to me and tell me that they will start my training as soon as I've found a place to live in Vancouver.

I come home that night and ask my really friendly landlords if they know any good places in Vancouver and they tell me about Craigslist. I had never heard of it. Upon a closer look there is no active section for Sweden so that might explain it. Anyway, I spend Wednesday looking and find a few that I mail to. On Thursday I have received one (1) answer from the mails I'd sent out. I called her and we agree on me coming in and looking at the room. Yes I was looking for something I could share, preferably close to work.

Anyway I travel into Vancouver, look at the apartment, and I liked it, and I liked the room-ie to, she seemed like a nice girl, just 9 years older than me. Well that Sunday I moved out of my apartment and into my shared apartment in Vancouver, I am sharing it with 2 girls. And the other one is 6 years older then me.

Right now I am just happy to be back at work again and doing something, these last 3 months have been awful. They have been filled with hopes from my side, I guess sometimes I am to naive, and wishful thinking gets the best of me.

So I am a salesman in Vancouver now, selling office supplies.

I have just come home from a Christmas party with my new company, a pretty good third day with the company.
I might tell you more about it tomorrow after work.

Right now I am more worried about not showing up hungover tomorrow morning at my work and my bed is looking pretty tempting.

Sorry for the Delay, expect more of them.