Inconvenient Annoyances

I have 2 job interviews next week! I had a phone interview today and they advanced me to an in person interview.

Congratulations on the positive phone interview!  Best of luck next week.  I hope they're positions you'd struggle to choose between and you get offers for both! 

Congratulations on the positive phone interview!  Best of luck next week.  I hope they're positions you'd struggle to choose between and you get offers for both! 

#1 is my backup plan job. Easy to get hired at and almost impossible to get fired from.  Lol

#2 is Boots. I used to work at Walgeens and Walgeens owns Boots so it's been a job I've wanted since before I moved. I was a Walgeens diggit. Lol

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#1 is my backup plan job. Easy to get hired at and almost impossible to get fired from.  Lol

#2 is Boots. I used to work at Walgeens and Walgeens owns Boots so it's been a job I've wanted since before I moved. I was a Walgeens diggit. Lol

Walgreen's is where I went for my photos for my "fiancee" visa application.  And my local Walgreen's sold coffee flavoured Nips candies, which I couldn't find anywhere else.  I'm a fan. 

Knock em dead nctami72!

Walgreen's is where I went for my photos for my "fiancee" visa application.  And my local Walgreen's sold coffee flavoured Nips candies, which I couldn't find anywhere else.  I'm a fan. 

It's every Walgeens managers dream to come work at Boots. Lol.

All my Wags friends are jealous I even have an interview. So ridiculous. Lmfao.

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It's every Walgeens managers dream to come work at Boots. Lol.

All my Wags friends are jealous I even have an interview. So ridiculous. Lmfao.

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Walgreens have only owned Boots for 3 years, though - it traded as a completely separate company for 165 years before that .

I worked for Boots for 9 years on and off, but I left a few years before Walgreens bought it, so I don't know if the general running of the company has changed at all since then.

Walgreens have only owned Boots for 3 years, though - it traded as a completely separate company for 165 years before that .

I worked for Boots for 9 years on and off, but I left a few years before Walgreens bought it, so I don't know if the general running of the company has changed at all since then.

Walgeens changed the US side to run more like Boots. The upper management all came in from Boots.

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I mean, I agree, but I feel a little bad for me 

Me too I feel like visas semi hold us up from doing life things.

We're traveling home next summer to be in a really good friends wedding. Unfortunately it's peak times of travel so it's expensive. Then I have my visa in October and I'd like to do in person.

Plus I have my baby radar on for next year and we want to buy a house. But I feel like these two may be put on hold because necessary travel and necessary visa. ):

I have 2 job interviews next week! I had a phone interview today and they advanced me to an in person interview.

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Good luck!!!! I hope you get the job you really want


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Good luck!!!! I hope you get the job you really want


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Thank you!

I started volunteering to give myself some UK job experience and references so that will help. I feel like that is half the battle.

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Thank you!

I started volunteering to give myself some UK job experience and references so that will help. I feel like that is half the battle.

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It definitely is. It's boggling to me that a lot of places don't even consider you're previous employment if it's not in the U.K.  So getting that foot in the door is so important.


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Me too I feel like visas semi hold us up from doing life things.

... But I feel like these two may be put on hold because necessary travel and necessary visa. ):

I know my husband and I have put a lot on hold because of the visa ordeal.  For the last five years, I've been saying, "Once I have ILR, we can...."  Five years!  I do wish our situation had been different in 2012, and we could've just got married in the US straight away.  I'd be a UK citizen with about £5k more to my name about now.  Well, okay, I have that money still... but it's earmarked for UKVI next year.  But it's just nine months to go, now.  Home stretch.  We can do it!

I know my husband and I have put a lot on hold because of the visa ordeal.  For the last five years, I've been saying, "Once I have ILR, we can...."  Five years!  I do wish our situation had been different in 2012, and we could've just got married in the US straight away.  I'd be a UK citizen with about £5k more to my name about now.  Well, okay, I have that money still... but it's earmarked for UKVI next year.  But it's just nine months to go, now.  Home stretch.  We can do it!

I wish I found this forum prior and married my husband somewhere else then did a straight spouse visa instead of a fiancé. Which was a mess, we hired a shady lawyer (waste of money) plus because the trust we put in this lawyer nearly missed our cancun [symbolic] wedding which was the real one with white dress and all.

My husband had to buy three plane tickets to get there because we sent both our passports in and his didn't get back to him in the uk until the day before our wedding, so he had to keep rebooking. So we started off basically with a drained savings.

But that's all behind us and we've moved on in the right direction. Thankfully I was able to find work semi easily to start bringing money in.


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Shoulda woulda coulda I guess. I now laugh about the ordeal we went through.


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Two in one day.

Just went to mow the lawn - halfway through and out of gas!  Ugh!

If it happens again, let me know! We have spare fuel in a can as we have a petrol mower too!