when busy streets a mess with people
Outside is chilly and insistently damp, and life all around me seems to be reflecting in empathy.
I recently joined the ranks of the underemployed, and so I'm home, more or less, during the days right now, and keeping very busy -- way more busy, it seems, than when i was working. How did I ever get anything done while I had a full time job?! It's been very good in many ways, particularly useful for when the kids have been sick, and allowing me to take some extended vacation this fall, which I'm really looking forward to. I've got a billion things I want to do and hopefully at least a few will get done.
I haven't actively started job searching again, because my first step in that process is to get a resume. My most recently updated resume? Is from 9+ years ago, just before I got offered my spot at CMU. I vaguely remember updating it when I graduated. On the bright side, if it weren't for this layoff, I probably would have put off updating it again for the rest of my career, and the job (heh) would never have gotten easier.
On the down side, it means I have no clue how to write a resume. I worked for several different groups, with a lot of different responsibilities and titles, most of which I really don't remember. What the heck skills do I have? How do I describe my job experience to a stranger when I can't describe it to myself? A few people have recommended resume-writing sources to me, which I've not looked at yet, but right now, I invite anybody else who wants to offer advice on how to approach this daunting task to go ahead and do so. Geek-answer syndrome, go!
On one housekeeping front, I have not yet gotten my personal files and mail archives from CMU. Although I expect to get those at some point, I have, for the moment, lost a bit of contact info for some folks. So if you are wondering why i haven't emailed or IMed you recently, it's totally that, and not at all because I've been running around half-brained, and haven't sat down to catch up on everything. Yeah. On the other hand, if you're looking to get in touch with me, my primary email address is changed. If you don't know it and can't stalk it, you can poke me @ lj and that will go to the right place (or supposedly the cmu bounce message will also direct you).
On the other housekeeping front, my house is no cleaner (although not really any messier), my inbox is staring at me pointedly to get to all those unanswered messages, my chainmail is sitting unlinked and lonely, my costume ideas have nothing solid attached to them yet, my running shoes haven't been touched in almost three weeks, and my todo list is still growing. But I have been cooking more yummy food, and drinking lots of tea with a kitty on my lap, so things aren't really bad at all. Busy, for the time being, is pretty good.
I recently joined the ranks of the underemployed, and so I'm home, more or less, during the days right now, and keeping very busy -- way more busy, it seems, than when i was working. How did I ever get anything done while I had a full time job?! It's been very good in many ways, particularly useful for when the kids have been sick, and allowing me to take some extended vacation this fall, which I'm really looking forward to. I've got a billion things I want to do and hopefully at least a few will get done.
I haven't actively started job searching again, because my first step in that process is to get a resume. My most recently updated resume? Is from 9+ years ago, just before I got offered my spot at CMU. I vaguely remember updating it when I graduated. On the bright side, if it weren't for this layoff, I probably would have put off updating it again for the rest of my career, and the job (heh) would never have gotten easier.
On the down side, it means I have no clue how to write a resume. I worked for several different groups, with a lot of different responsibilities and titles, most of which I really don't remember. What the heck skills do I have? How do I describe my job experience to a stranger when I can't describe it to myself? A few people have recommended resume-writing sources to me, which I've not looked at yet, but right now, I invite anybody else who wants to offer advice on how to approach this daunting task to go ahead and do so. Geek-answer syndrome, go!
On one housekeeping front, I have not yet gotten my personal files and mail archives from CMU. Although I expect to get those at some point, I have, for the moment, lost a bit of contact info for some folks. So if you are wondering why i haven't emailed or IMed you recently, it's totally that, and not at all because I've been running around half-brained, and haven't sat down to catch up on everything. Yeah. On the other hand, if you're looking to get in touch with me, my primary email address is changed. If you don't know it and can't stalk it, you can poke me @ lj and that will go to the right place (or supposedly the cmu bounce message will also direct you).
On the other housekeeping front, my house is no cleaner (although not really any messier), my inbox is staring at me pointedly to get to all those unanswered messages, my chainmail is sitting unlinked and lonely, my costume ideas have nothing solid attached to them yet, my running shoes haven't been touched in almost three weeks, and my todo list is still growing. But I have been cooking more yummy food, and drinking lots of tea with a kitty on my lap, so things aren't really bad at all. Busy, for the time being, is pretty good.