Luke Erik
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« Reply #405 on: November 07, 2011, 02:47:46 PM » |
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And congrats on your $800 pants.
Probably paid half that, if even. As you know when you tour the wedding circuit (be it groom or best man) it is better to own than rent. |
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Rev. Danny
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« Reply #406 on: November 12, 2011, 05:38:44 PM » |
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After 9 agonizing months, I am once again employed. It starts out as part-time seasonal, but I'm going to put in 100% to make sure I can turn it into a permanent position.
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Dobbin
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« Reply #407 on: November 12, 2011, 06:48:27 PM » |
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69 thousand words, looking to land this thing somewhere around 75-78 thousand. I am super-close to the end.
Not that it is in any way like Harry Potter in tone, style or plot, but I want to keep it around the same size as the 1st Potter book.
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LpF
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« Reply #408 on: November 12, 2011, 07:25:49 PM » |
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After 9 agonizing months, I am once again employed. It starts out as part-time seasonal, but I'm going to put in 100% to make sure I can turn it into a permanent position.
Way to go, man! Work it hard, and I bet you'll be able to bring it up to permanent. I actually just did that. Yesterday I finished my second week of work at a new full-time job. I'd been part-time (and part-time seasonal) at this agency, a local non-profit, for several years, when a full-time position opened up and they thought of me. Now I'm an engagement specialist, which means in my case that I run after- and before-school programs, work with clubs and classes during the school day, help run a two-district teen mentor program, and I have a case load of kids/families that I help find resources to meet their needs (mental/emotional, parenting, social services, etc). It's crazy busy, is a three bucks more an hour than I was making at my last full-time job, and after three months I get full benefits. Plus I get weekends off for the first time in a year, and I work with cool people. I couldn't be happier. |
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Shawn
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« Reply #409 on: November 13, 2011, 10:06:58 AM » |
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Not me working on, but I'm in NYC seeing the off off Broadway play the writer of my flick (Corpus Kristi) wrote. Brew of the Dead 2: Ocktoberflesh. Very funny stuff, There was a brief mention of a stoned zombie getting the super munchies, and I couldnt help but think about Everybody's Dead. It's playing for one more weekend if any NYC peeps are so inclined.
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Randy
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You had me at meat tornado.
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« Reply #410 on: November 13, 2011, 02:34:40 PM » |
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As of this past friday night, planning a wedding for summer 2013. Take that, THOR 2.
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BrianLynch
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« Reply #411 on: November 13, 2011, 07:12:40 PM » |
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Congrats, Randy!
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DerickA
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« Reply #412 on: November 13, 2011, 07:20:27 PM » |
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As of this past friday night, planning a wedding for summer 2013. Take that, THOR 2.
It got moved to Christmas. You're good. |
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Randy
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You had me at meat tornado.
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« Reply #413 on: November 13, 2011, 07:30:17 PM » |
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It got moved to Christmas. You're good.
Sweet, I'll just need to plan it around the next Pixar movie. |
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chrisb
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« Reply #414 on: November 14, 2011, 09:26:29 PM » |
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I'm full-speed ahead on looking for a new job, and this is a week of interviews! interviews! interviews! This morning, I had an interview in which the last question was a game of "I spy", in which the interviewer spied an object in the room, and it was my task to guess which object it was; I failed at that task, but I call total bullshit on whether a door stopper meets the criteria of "can it hold something?":  Other than that, it went well, BUT HOLY SWEET SHIT is this why the unemployment rate is so high?! Are otherwise qualified job applicants being turned down because they're not all that good at childhood games? My dream job for my dream company is on Thursday. Hopefully the job offer isn't determined by a game of Twister, because I'm not as limber as I used to be. |
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Luke Erik
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« Reply #415 on: November 15, 2011, 05:58:36 AM » |
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Way to go Randy, and best of luck Chrisb.
I'm completely redesigning a website and restructuring a business for 2012. Very frustrated as I'm limited as to what I can do with the website as far as content management. That, and we currently have 5 websites for one product, and no one besides me is on board for consolidating the sites. You can literally google our products and the shopping site doesn't show up on the first page of results, because our main page will always trump mine, and the shopping site isn't seo friendly. Just sucks to receive emails every day asking "where can I buy your product online?". People will take five minutes of their time to email me about purchasing a product, when they should be able to find and purchase the product in under two minutes (including setting up a new account).
Going to court tomorrow to receive a dismissal on an unnecessary ticket. Long story short, a kid pulled out in front of me, my car tapped his, and he called his Mommy (he literally said "I need to call my Mommy") who wanted a police report. No damage to either car, no injuries, and my lawyer says a note from my insurance company stating no claims were filed should suffice for a dismissal. So instead of just sharing information, now I need to take a day off (hopefully a half day) to go to court.
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Steve B
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« Reply #416 on: November 15, 2011, 10:48:40 AM » |
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Other than that, it went well, BUT HOLY SWEET SHIT is this why the unemployment rate is so high?! Are otherwise qualified job applicants being turned down because they're not all that good at childhood games?
Well... What was this interview for? If it was for Scholastic, then I think you are screwed. http://www.scholastic.com/ispy/games/BTW: Unemployment rate is so high because everyone is so lazy. But seriously, what field are you interviewing in. |
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Steve Lilley
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« Reply #417 on: November 15, 2011, 10:54:38 AM » |
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Hopefully the job offer isn't determined by a game of Twister, because I'm not as limber as I used to be.
You should bring in someone who's sweet at Twister to play for you, just in case. It'll show initiative. |
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Dobbin
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« Reply #418 on: November 15, 2011, 12:05:52 PM » |
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Having been in on the interviewing process, I can safely say that A LOT of the time, it is people who are faking like they know what they're doing, making up weird and arbitrary rules and rule-sets and inventing criteria as they go or as they talk themselves into it, pretending to both themselves and others that they're qualified to judge if someone is qualified for a position.
It all comes down to such "I liked that one guy" and such personal, arbitrary sometimes weirdly petty things that you just can'r predict. There are some obvious gimmies; your resume is weirdly, totemically judged, so spelling errors or too-generic objectives or cover-letters are weighted in a way that is probably not indicative of someone's actual fit for a job. So it is important to not have a resume *dis*qualify you, but really, it all comes down, a lot of the time, in any case, to someone deciding they like your face/voice/carriage better than the other person, or that you did or didn't do or say one arbitrary thing the other person did that becomes a kind of false, ad hoc "test" that you had no way of preparing for.
Good luck! And remember Mitch's advice: The correct answer to "where do you see yourself in 5 years?" is "Celebrating the 5 year anniversary of you asking me that question."
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chrisb
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« Reply #419 on: November 15, 2011, 01:36:09 PM » |
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But seriously, what field are you interviewing in.
I'm an IT guy, so I can see the validity of "i spy" as a test for measuring how a candidate breaks down a problem into smaller pieces; I'm just used to talking about the projects I've worked on and discussing my decision-making process. |
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