Looking for a Job

Please see the AWN advice pages regarding finding a job, as well as reading through the previous discussions in the "Finding a job" branch of the AWN forum.

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Jayne Cravens
www.coyotecommunications.com/development/
Bonn, Germany

Hi Pinkpetal,
Apologies for the previous bland and generally unhelpful reply to your request.
Unlike Jayne Craven, I won't insult your intelligence and direct you to somewhere that you've no doubt already visited.
Hopefully, I'll give you a more specific response to your question. No doubt that's why you came to the Aid Worker's Network in the first place to get some friendly, helpful, specific advice, am I right?
First of all, I'd register with the plethora of third sector/not-for-profit (NFP) agencies that we've got in the UK, i.e. CharityJOB, Guardian Jobs, Third Sector Jobs, etc, etc and sign up for their emailed updating service of job vacancies.
In addition to this, I'd do a google search for local to you charities/NFP organisations as well as bookmarking & visiting regularly the jobs pages of NGOs.
I hope this helps you.
Kind regards,
Gary Jenkinson

Hello Gary,

Yes, I am aware of the definition of 'snide' (although, living in Australia, I tend to use the Macquarie Dictionary instead of Encarta) and used the word advisedly.

Let's start with your last three question. For one, I was not 'jumping to Jayne Craven's defence' (who is perfectly well able to take care of herself), but to the defence of this community, of which I am an active member. Self-admitted snide comments are not helpful and do not add anything positive to the community's atmosphere. They did not add anything useful to your posting either.

I have no clue whether or not Jayne was offended, but as I said I was not defending her, so that is neither here nor there.

And what it has got to do with me: I am an active part of this community, and as such I had my sensibilities offended by your remarks -- and hence it definitely has something to do with me. Now you could argue that your posting was not directed at me so I should not take exception to it, but in that case, why did you react strongly to Jayne's words, which in that same line of reasoning would have had nothing to do with you?

As to the ethos of AWN and whether or not Jayne's reply was offending against that ethos: I would suggest that you re-read my first reply. You would see that I argue that her answer has been quite helpful in a majority of similar postings, and that hence chances were that it would be quite helpful in this case as well -- and thus perfectly well fits in with that ethos; an ethos, I might add, which Jayne haa helped create in the first place.

Finally: which post was most useful in Pinkpetal's eyes is irrelevant. I don't argue that your posting was not useful for Pinkpetal (in fact, I would suspect that it was), but that the first two sentences did not add to its usefulness at all but only served to injure this same community ethos that you seem to value so highly.

Cheers,
Michael

If you've been offended by my remarks, all I can say is you've got an awfully thin skin mate and you're in the wrong job.
Grow up!
With the very best of wishes, dearest Michael.
Gary Jenkinson

And what a pleasure it is to be greeted on this fine, rainy day by such a friendly exchange!

Michael ("myaidgroups"), thanks for trying to "defend" me, based on what you have seen from my past behavior on AWN. I guess it's time for me to learn more about you, since we've never met. I'll unleash Google right after I post this.

For anyone else following this enchanting thread: it's standard procedure on any online community when a frequently asked question is asked yet again to direct the user to existing information. The AWN site isn't the easiest to navigate, and often, people post questions without being aware that answers to their questions already exist. I gave what I thought would be the clearest, quickest route to the answer. And I'll continue to do this, so as not to bog down the community with the same answers again and again.

And as for Gary -- wow, are your posts here an example of providing "friendly, helpful, informal advice willingly given to those who have requested it"? Because, clearly, I have a different definition of such.

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Jayne Cravens
www.coyotecommunications.com/development/
Bonn, Germany

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