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About diana Stone

Diana Stone is a performing composer and musician playing Piano Violin & Guitar. She currently plays with Orchard and The Sonic Boomers. Previously with Rock/Roots band Elephant Shelf and also the Delta Ladies who mixed roots acoustic music and electronica until the death of Vicky Martin who formed the band which was active for 17 years. Diana composes in a variety of styles from pop to rock to Jazz and and classical music. Diana is also expert in multi-media recording and music production.

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Job Search

Well let me see, I have now applied for about 50 jobs in the last month. Ocasionally I get a call back on the phone which is nice, though no interviews of course. I am somewhat concerned that references are not being given at my old work place.

I hope this is not the case, but I can think of  no other reason for going from the of top of  a list of CV’s straight to the bottom.

Perhaps I ought to try the mystery shopper approach and see what the response is when my name is mentioned?

The Decade so far

Musings

Get my first decent job & have some spare cash
Join my first decent band after not playing live for about 20 years
Resign from job, due to a variety of reasons including some health issues and toxic boss.
Sign on dole
Discover that I am virtually unemployable (I have a fairly extensive set of ITC skills)
Try to make a living with band & other music stuff instead.
Get radio play & all sorts but basically no money.
Try to get work to fill in the gaps. Nothing….
Stay in apart from gigs & the odd drink, get £10 pounds of diesel a week to stay mobile.
Work on music practice around 3 hours a day. Do a bit of developing (php, Json, sql Cms web & db & so forth) stuff to keep my hand in.
get occasional call re my CV, which is with various employment agencies.

Conversation always go’s sort of like this:

Agency: “I have a fantastic match for you” , “I would really like to put your CV forward, whats you availability” , “Can you do an interview tomorrow or the next day”

“Have you 5 years experience of ($blabla; Answer “yes I did $blabla & also $blabla++ : ” reply “Fantastic I will put your CV forward now and give you a call back in the next few minutes”….

Ring Ring Ring “hello” , “Sorry forgot to ask can you also give the boss a blow job during coffee breaks & do you have 3 years experience” “yes no problem”

No more phone calls….

Back to Piano practice….. ..

Riing, Ring, Ring there go’s the phone…

BTW I am doing a show with Greta Garbitch “Dutch Drag Comic” at the Cellar Door at
Zero Aldwych , just by the Lyceum Theater in Covent Garden at 21:00 tonight 14 DEC, if your bored do pop in in….