Man, I’ve got this whole unemployment thing down and it didn’t even take me a week. I’m so good at it I should put it on my resume and make a point to mention it at interviews. “Yes, I could do an excellent job working for your company, but I’d also be very good at not working for you. You win either way.” It goes something like this: wake up around 11, eat giant bowl of rice krispies, play Neverwinter Nights and/or Warcraft3, ignore nagging self doubt and sense of impending doom, remind myself that I’m looking for a job, briefly browse online job sites and find nothing promising, roommates arrive home from work, play Neverwinter Nights and/or Warcraft3 with roommates, sleep. With a packed schedule like this, its easy to see why I haven’t been posting here as often.
Monthly Archive for June, 2002
Since I have yet to hear back from CoreComm about finishing up my interview, I’m going to assume that they’re trying to give me a hint here. However, being notoriously bad at taking hints I still plan on giving them a call Monday just to see if I’m still in consideration or not. It’d be really nice to find out that I still have a chance, especially since I’m now in the last 5 hours of my employment at the Student Computer Centers. I can’t believe I’ve worked here four years, but since this is the best paying job I’ve ever found for doing nothing I shouldn’t be too surprised that I stuck around this long.
I saw Minority Report last night, and really enjoyed it. I’d say its easily the best Philip K. Dick adaptation since Blade Runner. Of course, that may be a given considering that competitors for that title are films like Impostor and Total Recall. At any rate, I thought the film was at its most intersting when it was dealing with the paradox of knowing the future vs. changing the future. Predesitination vs free will. Now there’s a good fun Philip K. Dickian subject. Unfortunately, just when it was getting good it kind of skirted the issue and turned into a straightforward murder mystery. Even so, I can’t really complain and I still think it did justice to the source.
The job interview yesterday was somewhat disappointing. The manager of the position I was applying for, who was supposed to be one of the people interviewing me, got caught in a meeting and was too busy to make it. I found this out from an HR person immediately after I arrived. Instead, they handed my resume off to a couple of members of the software team and had them interview me on short notice. I think it went alright, but since neither of them really knew exactly what the position I was applying for required it didn’t seem to get that much accomplished. I’m supposed to get a call from the manager later this week and either do a phone interview or come back in again.
I finally got a job interview, after going for about 3 months without even one. Its with CoreComm, a mid-sized telephone and internet service provider, and its this upcoming Monday. The odd thing is that I never even sent them a resume, they came across my information through the Ohio State Engineering Career Services department. This after months of sending out my resume over and over again with no results. I’m not complaining though. Finally, some good news at the end of a week that’s seen me sick all week and Bobbins cancelled.
Last night I made my way down to Springfest on the lawn of the Ohio Union, and tried to pretend like I was still a college student. I hadn’t been to one in a few years, and I really wanted to see Cannibal Ox. The whole thing was free, and I guess I got my money’s worth since I felt just about adequately rocked. I got there in time to see Milemarker, who I’d heard were pretty good. They seemed to do it for most of the indie kids there, but I just wasn’t really that into it. Everything was running about an hour behind, so by the time that Cannibal Ox finally got on stage, it was after 1:00 am. It was then that I came to the realization that even though I may really like the artist, live hip-hop just doesn’t do that much for me. Yeah, their dj was really good, and maybe it was just because I was pretty tired, but I just wasn’t getting it and ended up calling it a night about halfway through their set.
This has to be the best job description I’ve ever seen, courtesy of OpenCola. Some highlights:
It seems like a pretty cool product, and darned if it doesn’t sound like they’d be fun to work with. As usual though, they’re looking for someone with a bit more experience than I’ve got right now. Oh well, they’re in Canada anyway.
Sevenplace is really cool new tech news/articles/forums site run by some friends of mine. They’ve got quite a nice setup over there, and they’ve even got a knowledge base (currently small, but growing). Its all coded by them too I’m pretty sure. Seems like its got great potential to be a really useful site.
A small piece of good news today; I found out that I can keep working at the computer centers through the break between spring and summer quarters. That’s a week longer than I thought I could, which gives me just that much longer to find a job before being thrust out into the cold heartless world of unemployment. So yeah, its not much but its something. I’m sure that will be all the time I need to find a job. Right.
Ok see, this is just too much. Geekdom’s quest to caffeinate every single imaginable consumer product has just crossed that fine line between harmless amusing eccentricity and crazed obsession.
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