Of Endings.
I should probably end my hiatus on LJ. I'd rather me journaling to my own side, but frankly this is more convenient and if I want people to read it I'll put it here. I've been posting mostly to hitmenforhire.com lately, but that's really only for techy topics and I can go a little overboard on that sometimes... mostly at the cost of creative expression.
I'm ending my floundering job search. I go back to Westside Tutor in two weeks, back to UBCO as a part-time student and a tutor in four weeks, and I work at an Auto Auction on Saturdays. It won't give me time to cram for the 2nd Actuarial Exam (Financial Math) until Decemeber, but I don't really care. My goal is two exams by the end of March, and through the CSC I have a lot of the background material already, so it shouldn't be too hard.
My new career direction is towards actuarial sciences. The bank teller thing didn't pan out, I kept getting rejected and I overgeeked the bank interviews. One career counsellor told me not to mention my intention of getting a master's degree when asked about my next five years... but that's a very core part of what makes me me: intellectual ambition. If I'm leaving that out of job interviews, then am I presenting myself truthfully? Is the job the right fit for me then?
I've been going to a career place called CBD Network, and it's been great. I met with a lot of people with financial backgrounds that had no agenda to get me to apply to places, and I got a good sense of how sales oriented the entire industry is. I don't want to get into sales unless it quickly leads to something more analytical, but appearantly it doesn't.
So to hell with climbing career ladders, I'm going to go straight for the actuarial and analytical jobs! I found a forum called actuarialoutpost.com that has a compilation of how to get a job as an actuary, as written by the actuaries on the forum that have hired people before. It seems to break a lot of the more general career rules. For start: it really is what you know instead of who you know for these jobs. They don't care about referrals, only what you did in school/how many professional exams have you done.
But this is all well documented stuff, here's somethign a little less... sterile.
I've been working on the Malorky Journals rewrite again, and I'm having a hard time choosing the ending. There's a good resolution I have in mind, but it'll make the completed story longer than I had originally intended. Maybe I should just go with that ending and take longer to write it rather than sacrifice the path this story wants to go.
Travelling makes me want to travel. Funny that. I'm in PG right now, visiting my parents and my mom's sisters. We just came back from a camping/rafting trip which sounds exciting but was more of a mellow get-back-to-where-there-are-still-trees cool. It's been a long time since I've seen water that distinctly whitish blue, and the first time I've gotten to pootle around in it. We were in a sightseeing raft just at the foot of mount robson. It's odd to the think of the river we were on as the Fraser River, because it looked more like a very large creek. I guess it pick up a lot of water between the Rockies and PG.
I would have enjoyed it a lot more if it weren't for the migraine I had most of the time there. Yeah, migraines aren't fun. Does anyone here know a lot about headaches? I have stress/anxiety problems, but I've been making a point of slacking off lately. I read a lot on the greyhound up here, but enough to warrant a killer headache two days later? I had sleeping trouble on the bus, but this was nuts, all I wanted to do was sleep for two days as it I'd had a concussion or something, but I'm pretty sure I didn't hit my head on anything. Besides, I was still thinking and talking at full speed before my head hurt, and I know from high school gym what a concussion feels like to me, and this probably wasn't it.
Hmm.. it's gone now, and this post is reaching my attention span so I'll stop.
I'm ending my floundering job search. I go back to Westside Tutor in two weeks, back to UBCO as a part-time student and a tutor in four weeks, and I work at an Auto Auction on Saturdays. It won't give me time to cram for the 2nd Actuarial Exam (Financial Math) until Decemeber, but I don't really care. My goal is two exams by the end of March, and through the CSC I have a lot of the background material already, so it shouldn't be too hard.
My new career direction is towards actuarial sciences. The bank teller thing didn't pan out, I kept getting rejected and I overgeeked the bank interviews. One career counsellor told me not to mention my intention of getting a master's degree when asked about my next five years... but that's a very core part of what makes me me: intellectual ambition. If I'm leaving that out of job interviews, then am I presenting myself truthfully? Is the job the right fit for me then?
I've been going to a career place called CBD Network, and it's been great. I met with a lot of people with financial backgrounds that had no agenda to get me to apply to places, and I got a good sense of how sales oriented the entire industry is. I don't want to get into sales unless it quickly leads to something more analytical, but appearantly it doesn't.
So to hell with climbing career ladders, I'm going to go straight for the actuarial and analytical jobs! I found a forum called actuarialoutpost.com that has a compilation of how to get a job as an actuary, as written by the actuaries on the forum that have hired people before. It seems to break a lot of the more general career rules. For start: it really is what you know instead of who you know for these jobs. They don't care about referrals, only what you did in school/how many professional exams have you done.
But this is all well documented stuff, here's somethign a little less... sterile.
I've been working on the Malorky Journals rewrite again, and I'm having a hard time choosing the ending. There's a good resolution I have in mind, but it'll make the completed story longer than I had originally intended. Maybe I should just go with that ending and take longer to write it rather than sacrifice the path this story wants to go.
Travelling makes me want to travel. Funny that. I'm in PG right now, visiting my parents and my mom's sisters. We just came back from a camping/rafting trip which sounds exciting but was more of a mellow get-back-to-where-there-are-still-trees cool. It's been a long time since I've seen water that distinctly whitish blue, and the first time I've gotten to pootle around in it. We were in a sightseeing raft just at the foot of mount robson. It's odd to the think of the river we were on as the Fraser River, because it looked more like a very large creek. I guess it pick up a lot of water between the Rockies and PG.
I would have enjoyed it a lot more if it weren't for the migraine I had most of the time there. Yeah, migraines aren't fun. Does anyone here know a lot about headaches? I have stress/anxiety problems, but I've been making a point of slacking off lately. I read a lot on the greyhound up here, but enough to warrant a killer headache two days later? I had sleeping trouble on the bus, but this was nuts, all I wanted to do was sleep for two days as it I'd had a concussion or something, but I'm pretty sure I didn't hit my head on anything. Besides, I was still thinking and talking at full speed before my head hurt, and I know from high school gym what a concussion feels like to me, and this probably wasn't it.
Hmm.. it's gone now, and this post is reaching my attention span so I'll stop.