I have seen the company list for the job fair. Under ordinary circumstances I wouldn't waste the gas to show up, especially at the current prices.

Who's going to be there?

AVON
Mary Kay
Century 21
A big insurance company
A local Hyundai dealer
A Home Security company that advertises heavily on television
A home improvement consultant
Another insurance company
A financial planner
A pool and pool supply store franchiser
Yet Another Insurance Company
Four Online Universities
Three Headhunters
Two Advertising Sales Companies
One Software Company

No partridge in a pear tree, either.

There are some possibilities for the four online universities, although I suspect they are trying to recruit students rather than staff.

So, where does that leave me? I don't wear makeup, I don't have a real estate license and wouldn't waste the time and money on one in a down market, I dislike Korean cars, don't have any financials worth planning and am confused by same, and consider home security to be a shotgun and a 6 D-cell flashlight.

Interestingly, I do have experience with an advertising sales company, but I wasn't planning on going back to that. I have a master's degree.

Perhaps one or more of these companies will have on site EAP services.

Maybe some of these people will be giving away free stuff. One of the insurance companies offered a lame benefits package a couple of years ago, but they gave us squeezy toys.

I like squeezy toys.

I just remembered ... a few months ago, you were deliberately and maliciously right in front of a doctor whose highly qualified beliefs were such that reality failed to match them. Is that what is behind this?

And as much as I will miss your Nuthouse threads, I reckon that in a year's time you will be in job that will make your life much more enjoyable. No getting spat at, pissed at, bitten, having to juggle the suicidal nut with the crackwhore ...

Any chance of going into snail wrangling?

Disagreements with doctors were such a frequent part of my job that they all blend together. I don't think there were any members of the medical staff that I hadn't had to involve the big doctor boss. Some more than once.

I had been looking forward to the snails, but that doctor, after happily retiring to his home country, in the beautiful mansion his green american dollars built for him, surrounded by the 15 foot glass and razor-wire topped wall, looked out at the blasted landscape on the other side that his "boys" were patrolling with full-auto AKs, and suddenly understood why he left the third world.

No snails.

He's in Scranton, working in a crazy prison.

Which is preferable to all that other stuff I just mentioned.

I am also regretting not having gone into some serious debt to buy the teahouse I frequent. The ladies who ended up with it are going to kill it inside of six months.

Maybe it'll be cheaper to buy after they've tanked?

Wouldn't it be more likely that the insurance companies would offer such services to their corporate clients? Or are these small insurance brokers, not major insurers themselves?

Yes! The tea house!

You can count on it. Run, don't walk, in the other direction.

Unless they have squeezy toys.

I'm really sorry to hear about this Wolf. It can be very scary to be let go. And it can really do a number on your head. I hope you find a smooth path to a new beginning.

Wait - is that the new word for :ggw:?

So, it is absolutely true.

No matter how many times you proof your resume on screen and on paper, the really stupid, glaring error is only discovered when you print many copies on the good paper.

Well, second best paper. It's just a career fair. They don't deserve the 30#.

Heck, I'm even printing a bunch of them on both sides of the page.

I have survived the job fair.

It did turn out to be a lot of sales jobs. Pretty much all sales jobs, except for one company that is looking for information technology folks, but not stuff that I do or know how to do, but I did pick up one of their flyers for tester-san, who is still looking for work.

Two of the companies I was interested in (both online universities) didn't show up. Of the one who did, apparently they list teaching positions on their website, so I'm going to be checking that out.

I did get some trinkets, as expected.

One water bottle, one squeezy ball, one cap snaffler, a duster, an emergency whistle-light-keychain thingy, a fridge-magnet clip, and three bottles of 5-Hour Energy (two grape and one pomegranate).

Wolf, have you looked at www.indeed.com? They include job listings that employers only put up on their own websites, even tiny employers you've never heard of. It's stupidly comprehensive.

Create yor own job. Market yourself to a university (obviously not on-line). With the increasing crazies that are causing problems on campus, you can be the person that mingles with the students and picks out the ones that are going to go postal. Call it "pre-psycho" identification.

You could be my bodyguard!

Indeed definitely holds out far more false hope than any of the other job search online places that I've been to. I almost think I may have a chance when I am on indeed. So I recommend it too.

you can be her long lost pal

I love that video. It's the last time Chevy Chase was funny, though, which is kind of a shame.

If you want a sales job I have one. I'm not sure it can make you a full living, but part of one yes

I am not yet so desperate that I am willing to take a sales job. If it's a regular corporate setting, I'm more interested in EAP type services.

So whats the word wolf?

I'm thinking of starting a porn co...wanna help?

You can have any position you want...

I appear to have qualified for unemployment. The letter from the state is confusing, mainly, I think, because the same Determination of Benefits letter goes to my former employer and includes instructions for their appeal process, which they have stated they will not attempt.

I activated my state credit card thingy today, and it does say I have money on the card. I have a desire to go out and buy something frivolous. Like food.

Don't waste the money on food. You will only enjoy it for a few minutes and then it is over. I'd suggest you use your money to buy socks. You can never have too many and in todays economy......

I have sock ingredients in the house ... double pointed needles, sport weight yarn, and a set of piss-poor instructions, which is why they are only ingredients at this point.

I'm busy crocheting a shawl for a friend's upcoming birthday right now.

YAY you!

The fact they are not going to appeal it means they don't have a case!

Yes, buy food and socks!

Buy food. Knit socks (I'll help you with the latter task).

do not let this make you feel shitty about yourself.you said yourself that you were there a long time without planning to be.you can apply for unemployment on line and to strengthen your position with them,have some brochurage for classes to update your skills(whether or not you intend to go).maybe this was to keep you from getting complacent.by all means fight,but be always moving forward in even the smallest ways.chin up.....even with a trembling bottom lip.

Sock ingredients. *snicker*

Any news on the job search/legal processes?

It seems like using snickers in socks would make them sticky.

But tasty, and I loves me some tasty socks

I didn't know you were in to suck kinky things spexxvet

Having time on my hands, and being somewhat able to keep time, I have decided to teach myself to play bodhran.

I would rather have an actual teacher, but they tend to cost money, and I haven't been able to find any in my area. I don't want to drive to Allentown.

Why Bodhran? Because there's one that's been sitting at the top of my closet for the last 10 or so years since I bought it at the Renaissance Faire. It was $20. I have gotten more than $20 worth of entertainment out of it this week.

I am reliably getting it to make the proper sorts of noises, although at a much slower rate than I think they're supposed to be happening.

I'm working through the videos on http://www.bodhranexpert.com which are really, really good.

I also need to find some Irish music jam sessions, without going into Philadelphia. Not that I'm good enough for that yet, although I am quite enthusiastic. I'm thinking that interacting with actual bodhran players might be useful. That and the Guinness.

Which reminds me, RichLevy, did you ever get around to figuring out the bodrhan at all? And how's your djembe doing?

Cool. You can upload a youtube video for us to see when ur good enough. :)

I like the bodhran.

So, when I'm not watching the Casey Anthony Trial, crocheting, or thumping on the bodhran, what am I doing?

Sometimes, not a lot.

There is one other thing I have been doing, though.

Walking.

There is a lovely park next to my apt, that has a walking path that connects to another, much bigger walking path.

So, I put on my mp3 player, and start trudging. Usually I trudge along listening to The Making of the Atomic Bomb. That's the book with the 90-minute long segments that I need to have the mp3 player remember it's place for me to find truly enjoyable.

I have usually been doing about a mile, mile and a half. I surprised myself last week by discovering that I'd walked 2.14 miles (according to Jeeves, my exercise encourager).

So, I was chattering with one of my girlfriends who lives nearby about this. Invited her along.

That was the stupid part.

Why was that stupid?

Because, rather than my usual wander around the park, we went further.

And missed a turn somewhere maybe.

We were following this trail and it just kept going and going ...

At one point we were going up this hill and I say, "If I see the big road, I will be quite vexed."

Let me tell you, I was more than merely vexed. I was all the way to perturbed, because what I saw at the crest of the hill was a construction site that was not appreciably near where my friend parked her car.

At the end, Jeeves informed me that I had walked 3.7 stinkin' miles.

If I hadn't accepted the ride back to my door, it would have been FOUR.

3.7 stinking miles is wondeful! :D

That's GREAT wolf! Keep it goin'

First of all - thanks for keeping me updated on what you are doing with your free time :) I walk a lot, too - or, I used to, before Ohio became just another Pennsylvanian swamp (eight weeks of continuous rainfall followed by scorching heat = SwampOhio)

Secondly - I love that you used the word 'vexed'.

Lastly - I've been following the Casey Anthony trial, too, and I have a theory. Maybe it's stupid, maybe I'm projecting but what I think happened is that Casey hates her mother so much and resents her and just really, really despises her and was jealous that Cindy was horning in on being Queen Mother and she thought, well, I'll fix her; I'll take away what she cares about most! Because, honey, Cindy Anthony is a walking pathology of narcissistic nutty-goodness, coupled with the control issues of a Stalin, and merged with the self-righteousness of a True Borderline. Cindy begat Casey but didn't LOVE Casey - only competed with her and was determined to keep Casey under her thumb, by god, but Casey outsmarted her. She did something Cindy never dreamt she'd do - kill Caylee.

Whaddya think?

Oh, and NOW Casey and Cindy are throwing DAD under the bus by saying he molested Casey!! Good grief!!
They will stop at nothing!!


now. Back to your previously scheduled thread. :)

The skin on the tunable bodhran broke. I picked up a simpler one but I haven't used it lately.

My 2-year-old grandson is really enjoying a mini-djembe I picked up a while ago. I play along with the ashiko, but I'm having a problem with one of the rings which is warped.

Still, if you come over for a BBQ, we can bang on the drums and annoy the neighbors.:D:drummer:

That would be a delight.

I thought that you had replaced the head on the tunable after it's over-baking.

I replaced the head on the tunable, but the skin I bought did not have a frame. The 'frame' I jury-rigged failed, and while I was waiting to fix it I misplaced the screws.:smack:

Continuing to walk with jeepgirl, but maintaining some additional control over the process. This past Tuesday the weather was looking iffy, so I smuggled her into the exercise room here at the apt.

There are two treadmills side-by-side, so we were each able to walk at our own pace, and had a very nice, air-conditioned time.

I actually went back later that afternoon and played with some of the other stuff ... treadmill, exercise bike, eliptical, more treadmill. I prefer the treadmill. Damn eliptical. I hurt in places I didn't know could hurt because of the way the thing sneakily impacts multiple muscle groups.

One major disappointment ... there is a large changing room/bathroom. I got all excited. Sign on the door said "Ladies Changing Room and Sauna."

Liability attorneys must have descended upon them like locusts. The sauna controls were dismantled and it's being used as a storage closet. :(

I would so have loved exercising, having a schvitz, and then hitting the pool.

Oh well.

Today the weather was looking iffy again ... actually was iffy. stupidly humid, heavy cloud cover, thunderstorms expected (never materialized), but it did rain here and there, so we went mall-walking. They don't have the distance signs up any longer, but we were able to find a security guard who let us know that three turns around a level was a mile. We did a total of three miles, plus we went up and down the stairs, which made up for my friend having stopped to shop in one of the anchor stores after the mall opened.

According to Jeeves (noom fitness tracker) I've expended over 2500 calories in the last seven days.

Very good! :thumb2:

That means it's better for you. Stick it out, when you get over the pain hump you'll enjoy it.

It's been a rough week.

When I went to file my UC Claim, I got a message that essentially said ... you're out of money.

I have too much stuff to be successfully homeless.

Luckily, one phone call later, I was guided through the process of filing for an extension.

I can breathe again.

Or will, once I see money hit the account.

But that's not really what I'm posting about today.

I got an email from a guy at a big, different nuthouse.

There looking at enhancing some of their staff care services with something that I do and he had some questions about how it all worked, and whether it might be useful. So we had a nice little chat about that.

As our conversation was winding down, I said something on the order of ...

"There's no really good way to segue into this question, so I'm just going to blurt it out ... do you have any open positions in your department?"

"Well, yes. There's two, one of them should be posting soon on the website. Everything goes through this big screening process and the only way to apply is online."

Ooh.

Nothing was posted under that job category when I went looking.

Don't know why, but I checked yesterday evening ... and there it was. Hopefully it's for the place I think it's for, since the nuthouse is part of a larger system and I'm not really into moving just at the moment. Application took me both last night and this morning to fill out .... it's really detailed and the interface was not terribly user friendly. Perhaps the ability to negotiate it is part of the screening process?

So, for good or ill, I clicked "submit" about an hour ago.

I hope I spelled everything right.

good luck!

Thanks!

Fingers crossed for your Wolf!

You should have had us do a read-through.

Good luck wolf. that would be awesome.

Best of luck, wolf -

:flower:

God luck, wolf, you deserve it.

Go, Wolf! Good luck to you.

Good for you Wolf. I hope all works out and they realize what an asset you'll be to their organization

Yeah, your heart just jumps-sinks when you see that message. I had the second go-around with that this past Sunday, even though I'd counted the weeks this time and knew when it was coming. Hope you move effortlessly into this job, so you don't have to see that on your screen again!

So I bought this sign on line for a friend of mine that owns a backwoods cabin. For some reason it made me think of you Wolf. ;) I also thought of keeping it myself. :)


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I hope you get the job! :)

Good luck lady!