Chalain has a new contract as of Thursday. I can't tell you what it is because of his NDA. I can say he's excited to be subcontracting for this company. The client spoke with Chalain and he seems to know the software development process and has a clear vision of what wants. Chalain will be starting with working code and adding features ( Read more... )

Chalain is back in California again. He came home late Saturday morning and returned early Monday morning. He seems to be enjoying the work and the team. But they may not extend the contract because having him there is too expensive. He'd really like to have time to develop some iPhone/Android apps but we need to have cash to pay the bills before ( Read more... )

For the past week and a half I've been working for my sister. She is the accounting manager for a local business. June is the end of their fiscal year and she needed end-of-year reorganizing of files to happen. She called me because I'm good at that sort of thing. And having worked there before I was familiar with the files ( Read more... )

Chalain has business associates to whom he want to give gifts. Associate 1 is getting married and associate 2 is having a baby. He has asked me to pick gifts because he's short on time and I'm female (females pick better gifts?). I don't feel I'm a "typical" female. I don't like decorating or entertaining or knickknacks or most typically girly ( Read more... )

My company christmas party was last Friday, Dec. 1st. Being a member of the Employee Party Committee I helped prepare for the party. It was a very long day. I spent from 8:00-3:00 putting up decorations for all of our different rooms and helping to set up the dinner drawing prize give-aways. I got to leave for 1 1/2 hours to go home, change, feed ( Read more... )

I found a comedy troupe!

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Today was my first day of a conversational/business japanese class. The MLM I work for has most of it's distributors in Japan and we host about 4 Japanese events at our building every year. The class is optional to employees. I thought it would be fun to try and learn a little more of this language (not that I had more than a couple of words to ( Read more... )

I've been temping as administrative assistant in the HR department of a large international company since the middle of November. About a month ago they called my temp agency an asked them to give me a $2.00 raise. I thought that was really cool, but if they liked me enough to give me a raise why didn't they just hire me? Yesterday I was presented ( Read more... )

Well, they did pick somebody else...

I heard from the receptionist at the permanent full-time job (who called to say she found my missing application and resume attached to another application) that someone had been hired but she didn't know who. Because I hadn't been called it was safe to say it wasn't me. I was kind of glad.

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I don't like interviewing for jobs because I'm not very good at it. I had two interviews today. I don't think they went badly but neither do I think they went really well. I'm sure if someone critiqued my interviews they could tell me that I did some things right and where I needed improvement but even if I'm given pointers I have a hard time ( Read more... )