I just called the hiring manager at feds to take back my acceptance and got the hard sell for the position, the agency, and the federal government itself as an employer. I also heard a mild smack down on the city as an employer. Damn it. Why am I finding this so hard? I made my choice, but I just need to exorcise my regret demons. I realize ( Read more... )

One of my staff was craving donuts and at our last staff meeting, we talked about having a margarita party while we folded programs for graduation. Well, since we all have to work Sunday, I thought we could be a little more celebratory today. So, I bought donuts and margarita fixins (not some mix shit either--good tequila, triple sec, etc.) as ( Read more... )

A few of my LJ friends are out looking for jobs and feeling the pinch and my last post raised some ugly spectors. I apologize for that and thought that maybe talking about my method for job hunting might help. ( rockfestfreak and jezebeltw this one is for you )

That's one of my favorites from a list a friend sent of a first grade class exercise where the teacher gave one of a proverb and the kids had to finish the rest. Some of them are too good, it makes me think it's fake, but some are lame and make me think it's real ( Read more... )

"Our bodies--and our convoluted relationships with them--tell the real story. In a world that offers women challenges along with choices, compromise along with control, our bodies may seem the only realm where we can claim sovereignty. So, we focus our power there. We start with what we can control--sorta. Our bodies. Our hair. Our weight. ( Read more... )

Just when I thought I was learning something--this morning's class was so fast paced and full of useful info. This afternoon is a nightmare of slow and lame--we spent at least 10 minutes talking about how you can fake a right click with a MAC mouse by pressing the Option key--useful info, but 10 minutes worth? Of course, I'm feeling cocky and ( Read more... )

The area of campus where I have been taking all my training classes is littered with shredded white paper that has managed to get itself thoroughly soaked so that now it looks a little like melted snow covering the dirt amidst the creeping ivy. This makes it sound nicer than it is ( Read more... )

I'm sort of trying to keep from panicking. I feel so underprepared for my new job--day two and there are all these things I need to do, but can't until I take the classes offered by Stanford to learn the program that allows me to learn the things I need to do. There is no one to guide me really--it's a learn as I go and try and meet and learn ( Read more... )

I've noticed that it's much easier for me to fit exercise into my schedule when I have a job and impossible now that I don't. It's very bad. I need to work that out when I get back into town. I think it has to do with how random my schedule of time seems to be, versus how fixed it was before ( Read more... )

I have been vaguely attempting to get a position in the office of a newly elected official in the East Bay/San Francisco area. The catch? I don't know fuck-all about Sf or EB politics. I have no ties to community organizations and I'm not even living in the area so it's not like I have the pull of a vote even. My old boss suggested I go and ( Read more... )