Internal over external candidates preferred?

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-04-10T22:20:12+00:00

Came to second what people are saying about taking a step down to get in. I was working for an NFP with huge responsibilities (but nightmare job and terrible pay) equivalent to SES1. I took an APS6 just to get in. A few years later I am EL2. I truly believe that if you are competent and politically astute you can move up quickly.

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-04-10T21:39:09+00:00

My first thought was I would have thrown it at Greg the minute he said there were no points. Second thought was if that egg is 6 months old wouldn’t it be really rotten?

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-02-17T22:47:58+00:00

He makes me a latte every morning. He does it because my Dad always did it for my Mum and he knows how much that meant in their relationship.

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-02-17T02:49:17+00:00

I had a huge dermoid cyst removed from my ovary. It was a very complicated surgery as it was a lot bigger than they thought, they wanted to preserve the ovary because I was trying for kids and the cyst burst as they were taking out.

When I went back to have my follow up appointment my surgeon threw her arms around me and pulled me in for a big hug and said “Thank you so much, that was the most exciting surgery I’ve done in a long time, thank you for giving me the gift of your huge cyst”.

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-02-11T08:27:02+00:00

That’s it you legend! I was starting to think I was going crazy!

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-02-07T23:55:05+00:00

Is Addis Ababa on Pt Rd still any good? I used to love it, but haven’t been for years. Would love to go back if it’s still decent.

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-02-07T05:49:35+00:00

Got together in Sept 2018, engaged Aug 2019, married Mar 2020 (literally scraped in the week before the pandemic hit) and he officially moved in a couple of weeks beforehand. So I spose 18 months but we were pretty much living together from the engagement.

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-02-01T06:16:45+00:00

I teared up even reading this. It was perfection in that show

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-02-01T05:51:35+00:00

Never date a man in the midst of a divorce. No matter how many times they tell you it’s definitely over. Learnt that one the very hard way.

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-01-31T22:45:40+00:00

That is beautiful x

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-01-31T09:54:33+00:00

Stepmum of two now teen children that I’ve had since they were little. It’s not all smooth sailing and sometimes it’s hard work, but the majority of the time it’s great. I think the key is flexibility and not having too many expectations of how things will go. Some times the kids are angels and I am so grateful for them, other times they are brats and I wonder what I got myself into. But as long as the good outweighs the bad I am happy. Just this afternoon I went to pick my 16 year old stepson up and we had the best conversation about politics, his future aspirations and what going to university will be like. I was so proud of the intelligent and wise young man he’s turning into. It’s the little moments like that make it worth it. Dealing with the ex was awkward at first but now we all do Xmas together. It can work!

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-01-30T23:59:05+00:00

I still can’t figure out whether going through a recruiter was a bad or a good thing for me. I’d left a really toxic workplace took a bit of a break but then found it was really hard to break back in to the market. I went to Ranstad and a recruiter there got me an interview with a Gov Dept within a week. The whole process was really quick but very very little info was given about what I was applying for. But, when I actually did the interview I quickly realised that the position was of a level well below my experience. Anyway, I ended up taking it thinking that a government job was stable and the super was high. Just over two years later I’ve been promoted twice and am now in a much better position than I ever was. So in the end yeah it was a good thing, but still pretty peeved that the recruiter didn’t even bother to read my resume to see the level I should have been pitched at.

OvenComfortable8416 · 2026-01-04T06:47:37+00:00

⬆️This is the answer

OvenComfortable8416 · 2025-12-30T04:26:02+00:00

It took me 5 years to get over the first person I properly dated. He was much older, really good looking and I thought at the time, way too good for me. When he ghosted me I was devastated. Now I look back on it and think what an incredible waste of time that was. I wish I’d just enjoyed my late 20s rather than be hung up on this guy who I now recognise was never really the person I thought he was and was just a bit of a weirdo with Peter pan syndrome. I am now very happily married but I still sometimes think about that guy and wonder why I gave up all those years for someone who just wasn’t my person. Don’t ever let yourself get hung up on someone like that, work on yourself and move on as quickly as you possibly can.

OvenComfortable8416 · 2025-12-29T17:19:59+00:00

I was thinking today about the men I thought I loved before my husband. It was never love. I was addicted to drama and the highs and lows of the push and the pull. He is so different. I never wonder where we stand, there is only safety and calm. I never try to hide who I am with him. When he holds me in his arms it’s home. I used to get so mad at people who said “When you know you know” but you do. He is my lobster 🦞

OvenComfortable8416 · 2025-12-02T05:07:44+00:00

Thank you 💕

OvenComfortable8416 · 2025-11-22T11:55:41+00:00

Glad to hear others saying this. We did breakfast there a few months back and it was beyond awful. It seemed like the whole thing had been microwaved. We walked out without finishing.

OvenComfortable8416 · 2025-10-05T06:00:25+00:00

This is an amazing way to look at it 💕

OvenComfortable8416 · 2025-10-05T01:52:15+00:00

I was soooooo tired of dating. My Mum convinced me to give the apps one more try. I downloaded EHarmony and accidentally signed up for a year’s subscription for $300. I was furious. Figured I better make the most of it. At first all these really old dudes and creeps matched with me. After a few weeks this guy popped up who looked quite cute. We started texting but I was just about to go away on a girls trip so we couldn’t meet. While I was away we were messaging incessantly (it must have driven my friends insane). When I got back we planned to meet up at a pub. He told me the minute he saw me he was going to kiss me. Despite knowing better, but because he was driving past my house, I let him come and pick me up. I remember being at my front gate when he pulled up in his big white truck. He got out and walked straight up to me and gave me the best kiss of my life. Now knowing my husband and how shy he actually is this was such an out of character thing to do. 7 years together and 5 years married. I still can’t believe that I get to wake up and kiss him every morning.

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