Pen & breakfast

Yesterday I could have had breakfast at a conference. Not just scones or small sandwiches (the usual conference food), but scrambled eggs and bacon, sausages or fresh crescent rolls with butter and jam. I could eat them at a decent table, covered with immaculate, white tablecloth. Too bad I had breakfast at the metro station [...]

A quiet end of the year

We had a really excellent New Year’s Eve. Last year after visited Mum, we went home and tried to find out what to do. We ended up watching Friends all night — the same thing we did every other evening.
This time we were much smarter. Unlike last year did not planned to do anything special [...]

No pain, no gain

After my first complete week at my new job, I had to participate at a workshop on the weekend. I arrived home on Sunday afternoon, my head full with new information — at least I can be considered fairly competent at one of the three main fields I have to work on.
At first I was [...]

Eavesdropper’s Log

My office is on a straight corridor. The rooms open to the corridor, and also to the adjacent rooms — so you can hear quite well what’s going on at your neighbours. The room left to mine is empty. On the right, my neighbor is a young mother, who apparently comes to work to make [...]

The very best very first day

I know it was just my first day, but I simply love my new job. I have to work together with streamlined professionals, on  a wonderfully complex and interesting field. I have my own office, my own telephone number, my own, brand-new e-mail address. I even got a security card to the building, so I [...]

Event-packed weekend

Mission more or less completed, now I only have to close the project: write some summaries, fill out some forms, and collect the money. I am certainly more clever than I was a month ago. I am also ready to take my new job, where, if no disaster happens in the next two days, I [...]

Scientific mission

A nice side-effect of this work that I can hear a lot of interesting presentations in every scientific areas from IT-science to numismatology or biology.

Accountants

We started a new enterprise with Mum recently. If you are not an accountant, you definitely need one in Hungary. Tax law is far too complex to be understood by mundane people.

Pinocchio at work

My temporary job in the publication of the letters of the famous Hungarian cartographer, Manó Kogutowicz is coming to an end. And I met Pinocchio at Vodafone.

Soaked for business

I have never been taken so seriously — and I mean seriously — as a professional. Even if I don’t get a job, I got many exceedingly useful pieces of advice for career-building and some really good remarks on my cv. They did provide me some interestingly-looking perspectives, too — now they just estimated me, but in the next weeks they may even find me some actual offer.