On my way to work this morning, my odometer rolled that magic number. Of course, you only get to see the magic number once, so I had to quickly snap a shot of the dashboard before it ran out of magic.
Now, you have to realize that just a few months ago, at the end of October, that same display read just shy of only 115,000 miles. That was only 4 months ago, and I've managed to rack up over 8,000 miles. I need to find a job closer to home.
I'm about to leave for the first day of my new job…
We'll see how it goes.
I find it amusing that within days of receiving confirmation that I'll once again be gainfully employed, I start to hear back from other companies.
The day after hearing back from my new employer that I'd be starting Monday, I get a call from a woman at a different company that she needs a web developer pronto to get her company online as soon as possible. I of course mention that I would be starting a new job come Monday, and ask if she will still be needing someone to fill the position in three or four months (when my contract with my new employer will probably end). As I expected, she can't wait that long (who can blame her) but she'll keep me in mind for the future.
Also, in the last three days, I've gotten a total of five rejection letters. Two in the mailbox, three emails. Thanks for getting back to me so soon after I applied, guys. Two and a half months later is a great time to get back to someone who was looking for a job.
Meh. Monday morning is gonna hit me hard… I'll have to wake up considerably earlier than normal. But I'll be getting paid again, which is nice.
One of my t-shirts: I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.
Finally. Finally things start to look up.
After playing phone tag for a week and a half with this staffing company and the company they represent, I've finally gotten somewhere. This morning I got the phone call that I've been waiting for. The company finally got final approval to hire me on.
I don't know yet when I actually start work yet. They're running a background check on me, so when that clears (in 2 to 8 business days??) they'll let me know. So I could be starting as early as Thursday. Hopefully that multiple homicide from back in '93 doesn't show up on their records. For the record, I did not actually commit any homicides as far as I know.
I find it rather amusing, because last night I started having a dream about having to go back to my old job (which I'm not particularly fond of)… that would not be cool.
For the last two months, I’ve been trying to find a job. Unfortunately, it’s proving more difficult than I expected. Well… a few weeks ago I was contacted by a staffing company representing one of their clients who need someone to do some website work for them. Fairly basic stuff, just moving content from their existing site to a new template.
Had a few meetings, with the most recent one being this last Friday (the 13th). I met with the two people who are actually more or less in charge of the project I’d be working on, had a nice chat, found out some information about the project, all was fine. They said they needed to get final approval to go ahead from their director, and that they’d get back to me no later than Wednesday of this week. Wednesday came and went, no response. I talked to the staffing agent, who told me that they’d been unable to get ahold of this manager, but that they’d call me back by 10:30am of the next day, Thursday. Well, 10:30am Thursday came and went, no response. I call the guy back again, he says he still can’t get a response from these managers. He says if I don’t hear back by noon today (Friday), call back and find out what’s going on. So… I do. He says, again, that he’s going to try to get ahold of these managers and get back to me. Well… it’s 4:41pm and I have yet to hear anything. Ten minutes ago I got to leave a voicemail for him, and now it’s the weekend.
Is it really all that difficult to just make some phone calls and say yes or no? I don’t even care at this point if I got the job or not. I just want to know. I just want a yea or nay. I’m sick of getting jerked around by this company, telling me they’ll get back to me as soon as they can and then never actually getting back to me.
This is getting to be frustrating.