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nova

12:12pm Thursday 20 June 2002

I have just finished munching lunch after the initial Nova group information session. Nicole was the presenter; she has worked for Nova since 1999. Taught English and shifted to a job in San Francisco(?) where she's interviewing people to work for Nova.

The Nova job sounds pretty fuckin' cool. The negatives are they don't pay airfare or rent, but the positives are many:

• Don't have to work overtime, but plenty of overtime is available.
• They arrange my housing and my rent comes right out of the paycheck.
• They set up bank account and take care of visa and stuff, and set up a flight over there, and greet me at the airport.
• Local transportation is covered; they'll give me a rail pass if I need to commute, etc.
• Don't have to take work home with me. The setup is that classrooms only have 3 or 4 people taking classes at a time, so I won't know from day to day who I'll be teaching. Therefore, they keep all the files on the students and just give them to me when I walk into the room. I see this as analogous to them handling the project management side of work, which is what I don't want to do.
• They've been around since 1981, have well established centers and such.
• Other stuff I'm sure.

My individual interview time is 12:45, but Clement(sp), the previous guy just went in at 12:23, 8 minutes late, so I might go in a tad later.

During lunch, I got a call from Fred and he can pick me up. This is cool because Jon dropped me off.