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Boo, the listing for the localization editor for Nintendo of America has been taken down. I had submitted a resume, but it wasn't as good as it could have been, and I wasn't as active as I might have been about following up.
I'm having a lot of trouble with this job search for a few reasons, but the number one problem is that I want to leave... and yet I don't want to leave.
I've never been that good at making friends and contacts, and I've always been worse than that at meeting guys. This area... this span of Virginia/Washington/Maryland... hasn't made that any easier. I feel like most of the people around here are boring government types, and my hopes for meeting someone are pretty low. At the same time, though, I have an excellent group of friends here now. I'm within a not-too-difficult day's travel of my family, and I've got a good roomate. Everything in life was pretty good with the exception of my love life, until I lost my job.
But not everyone around here is necessarily going to stay around here, so I'm even more confused.
I don't know why, but I feel like a change of scenery might help me find what I'm missing, especially considering that many of my close friends may be leaving here soon anyway. But is that hope... the "there are more geeks on the West Coast" idea, just the generic hope I get whenever I go to a new place or do a new thing?
I try not to talk about it, but I have to say that being mostly single for the past, oh, seven years has been weighing heavily on me a lot. During that period I've had two fairly brief relationships where the amount of real-life facetime ultimately numbered a few days. My efforts in finding like-minded organizations and single people in DC have all fallen flat, and I've cleaned out the dating sites in a 50 mile radius. I've all but lost hope of finding anyone around here. But would a change of scenery really help? This may seem insane, but the potential dating pool is one of the biggest factors I'm considering when thinking about where I might be living.
I can take some solace in not getting the Nintendo job because for every Fire Emblem there are likely dozens of Nintendogs I'd have to be looking at, but at the same time it was a job I might have liked, and because I was lazy I didn't do as much as I could have to get it. I've got to come to terms with two things:
1. Good positions don't grow on trees. If I want something, I have to go for it all out. The universe isn't going to do me any favors, and I don't want to be stuck with regrets.
2. If I am looking for jobs at any company other than the scarce few local ones around here, I have to be prepared... mentally and emotionally... to just pick everything up and GO. There's a chance I may have to move away from here on very short notice in the coming weeks if I want to seriously consider 90% of available jobs. I can't dilly dally about an opportunity just because I don't know if I want to move. I can't have my cake and eat it too.
I'm having a lot of trouble with this job search for a few reasons, but the number one problem is that I want to leave... and yet I don't want to leave.
I've never been that good at making friends and contacts, and I've always been worse than that at meeting guys. This area... this span of Virginia/Washington/Maryland... hasn't made that any easier. I feel like most of the people around here are boring government types, and my hopes for meeting someone are pretty low. At the same time, though, I have an excellent group of friends here now. I'm within a not-too-difficult day's travel of my family, and I've got a good roomate. Everything in life was pretty good with the exception of my love life, until I lost my job.
But not everyone around here is necessarily going to stay around here, so I'm even more confused.
I don't know why, but I feel like a change of scenery might help me find what I'm missing, especially considering that many of my close friends may be leaving here soon anyway. But is that hope... the "there are more geeks on the West Coast" idea, just the generic hope I get whenever I go to a new place or do a new thing?
I try not to talk about it, but I have to say that being mostly single for the past, oh, seven years has been weighing heavily on me a lot. During that period I've had two fairly brief relationships where the amount of real-life facetime ultimately numbered a few days. My efforts in finding like-minded organizations and single people in DC have all fallen flat, and I've cleaned out the dating sites in a 50 mile radius. I've all but lost hope of finding anyone around here. But would a change of scenery really help? This may seem insane, but the potential dating pool is one of the biggest factors I'm considering when thinking about where I might be living.
I can take some solace in not getting the Nintendo job because for every Fire Emblem there are likely dozens of Nintendogs I'd have to be looking at, but at the same time it was a job I might have liked, and because I was lazy I didn't do as much as I could have to get it. I've got to come to terms with two things:
1. Good positions don't grow on trees. If I want something, I have to go for it all out. The universe isn't going to do me any favors, and I don't want to be stuck with regrets.
2. If I am looking for jobs at any company other than the scarce few local ones around here, I have to be prepared... mentally and emotionally... to just pick everything up and GO. There's a chance I may have to move away from here on very short notice in the coming weeks if I want to seriously consider 90% of available jobs. I can't dilly dally about an opportunity just because I don't know if I want to move. I can't have my cake and eat it too.