James Kirk is a slacker!
You would be correct if you thought this about me. Hell, I think this about me! People who just troll around and read blog posts, news items, comments, etc. really have no idea just how hard it is to do all the things one must do in their lives, and still find the time to be creative, witty, do proper research, and get well formed posts published on any sort of regular schedule.
Since my last bout of activity on this site (late April, I believe) I’ve:
- Had a 43rd birthday (4/28/65) YIKES!
- Been evicted from my home thanks to a “lovely” aunt who owned the place. Thanks, AD
- Moved my Mother and I into a new house that was previously occupied by, well, let’s just say that owning large animals, having 6 or 7 people in the house, doing drugs, and NEVER, EVER, EVER cleaning during their entire six month stay, makes for a little bit of work prior to moving in (oh, and this place is owned by my Sister and her husband. She wouldn’t kick her own Mother out, would she
)
- Finished all start up paperwork (business plans, executive summaries, funds usage, etc) for TheFightChannel.com and have attended several meetings regarding potential investments
- Updated my resume, since we no longer have operating capital for TFC and one needs some sort of income in order to pay one’s Sister the rent on her house which he just moved into!
- Sent out said resume (hold, let me count) 37 times over the past 6 weeks (to date, I’ve had about half a dozen responses)
- And continually fighting to delete the bs spam crap that I’ve started receiving as a result of the resumes posted to Monster.com, Yahoo! Jobs, and others. (Talk about kicking you when you are down!)
So, what have I discovered thus far about all this “activity”? Well, I’m beginning to think that job searching is very much like mate searching. And it doesn’t matter whether you’re looking for full time or part time, a male or a female (or whether you’re a male or a female). I’ve just come back from a second interview with a local employer. I had to shower and shave and put on some nice clothes. Make that good first impression. Well first impression for my potential boss’s boss, with whom I met.
Say all the right things. Not sure if I did that, however, I didn’t really shy away from values that I believe in regarding specific aspects of the gig. Smile. Show humor where necessary. Empathy when appropriate, etc., etc., etc.
Where I reside now days, in the Verde Valley, in Northern Arizona (central really, like Nor Cal is really central) is clearly not NYC, SF, LA. But we’re not BF either! We have a movie theater, and some restaurants, and just opened a new car wash (because the previous 3 or 4 were just not enough.) And when you want to go out on a date here (assuming you can actually find someone to ask! Really, that is not a joke…) All the same activities need to occur.
One should be clean and shaved (again, male or female!) Say the right things, try and get the core of their values across, and still be funny and poignant if at all possible. Oh, and if you’re going to the interview or a date, remember not to shower with your colgne or perfume. You’re potential employer is likely to wonder what other smells you’re covering up, as will your date. And you’ll never be able to properly taste your wine with that much smell mucking up your olfactories! (Assuming here that we’re referring to the dating process, of course!)
So, finally, I’ve taken 10 minutes to slap something up on the blog. Feels like I got a notice from my WordPress install, “If you don’t publish something within the next 48 hours, your blog will lock down and you’ll lose all access to it!”
Hmmm, now that might be an interesting WP plugin to create…
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