Tag: sudoku
Doing Sudoku for money
by Jim on Nov.15, 2008, under The real world
Yep, that’s basically my job. I am supposed to be taking sales calls, but I seem to be getting about 10 a day. So in the 20-40 minutes between each call I just sit around doing a few ‘Killer Sudoku’. Boring, but I’ll take the money right now!
On the other hand, it seems once I get a job everyone else wants me. So the psychologists did get it right, I kind of feel like the toy no-one wants until someone picks it up. I just took part in an assessment day (aka aptitude testing) this week, have an interview with someone else next Thursday, and turned down a crummy christmas job in retail.
I’ve done aptitude tests before and I felt really good about this one. Like most of these tests you had to answer a load of questions in a short amont of time. I worked out that in the first test you had 15 seconds a question! I was happy to actually complete all of the questions, I didn’t feel that it was actually that hard… despite someone commenting that it was practically impossible! The second one had more questions in the same amount of time, but required reading! I got about 75% of the way through; after scanning the others sheets at the end, it looked like they only managed 50-60% of the way. Whilst it ended with one of those yes/no/unknown comprehension tests, which wasn’t that bad.
I really feel that I passed these tests. Especially when there were a few jobs going and less than a dozen of us taking part. I was actually shocked at how much help some of those taking part needed with the example questions for each section…
So unless something strange occurs, that should be two interviews next week 
