Day 1604

Over 1000 project words again today. 4500 to go. Got a long (5K) email from T giving me lots more good advice about jobs. I'm beginning to wonder if my policy of always assuming the worst in order to avoid disappointment is working. What puts me off is that I got optimistic at ABC, most horribly just before the crash. The experience unnerved me a lot. But unless I allow myself to be a bit more optimistic it'll be hard to get anywhere.

There are 3 awkward questions that are going to be asked jobs-wise: (1) Why did you leave ABC? (2) What were you doing 1991-95? and (3) Why are you looking for a first job at age 26?
I have put this to M, and S and Barber, and T, and no-one has given me a straight answer as to what to do. (Barber suggested I could say I'd been writing a book, which wasn't such a bad suggestion).
I wonder if they are Insoluble Questions, and people don't want to depress me.

Anyway. Finished Dombey & Son. (Everyone got married).