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a combination of pax and duels of the planeswalkers on xbox has gotten me interested in magic the gathering again for the first time in like 15 years. god help me if i fall down that slippery slope to card buying again! i've already bought a pair of preconstructed decks to play with my wife...
on the job front, i've had a bunch of interviews, but no call backs, which is an upgrade from no interviews at all. It was weird, though, going to pax and seeing all the booths of people i applied to and meeting the folks who beat me for those positions. oh well. If nothing else, i have solidified my desire to be on the community/PR side of the industry, and now just need to find out how to get there. This year i actually decided to start leveraging all of the friends i have in the industry, offering myself as an assistant level should they ever decide to grow their teams.
PAX was amazing. Meeting friends from the boards and from the industry just reminded me how much i miss being in the industry. I talked for a long time with shane, trying to figure out where i had gone wrong and what i could do to find my way again, and i went to a panel on resumes in the games industry. i owe it to myself and my wife to be serious about this if it really is going to be viable.
i started a new term of classes as well, with aims at getting a networking degree, so that i can go back to the blue collar grind of high tech. it's not sexy or fun, but it pays oh so much.
joblessness is hopelessness. it's taken over my life, and all of my conversations and energy. i talk to people about anything, and inevitably, my cynicism and anger at my situation comes through. it makes me a terrible person to be around these days =/
been performing a lot of weddings as a priest this summer, which has the dual benefit of paying and getting me out of the house. sadly, it's not full time, or else i totally would.
otherwise, life has been reduced to reading books and looking for work. at this point, i dont even know how i would react to actually having a job. when sega and EA called me for interviews twice in one week, i actually broke down and cried, because it was the best thing that had happened to me in so long that i didnt know how to deal with it. that both ended up not panning out was almost inevitable.
on the job front, i've had a bunch of interviews, but no call backs, which is an upgrade from no interviews at all. It was weird, though, going to pax and seeing all the booths of people i applied to and meeting the folks who beat me for those positions. oh well. If nothing else, i have solidified my desire to be on the community/PR side of the industry, and now just need to find out how to get there. This year i actually decided to start leveraging all of the friends i have in the industry, offering myself as an assistant level should they ever decide to grow their teams.
PAX was amazing. Meeting friends from the boards and from the industry just reminded me how much i miss being in the industry. I talked for a long time with shane, trying to figure out where i had gone wrong and what i could do to find my way again, and i went to a panel on resumes in the games industry. i owe it to myself and my wife to be serious about this if it really is going to be viable.
i started a new term of classes as well, with aims at getting a networking degree, so that i can go back to the blue collar grind of high tech. it's not sexy or fun, but it pays oh so much.
joblessness is hopelessness. it's taken over my life, and all of my conversations and energy. i talk to people about anything, and inevitably, my cynicism and anger at my situation comes through. it makes me a terrible person to be around these days =/
been performing a lot of weddings as a priest this summer, which has the dual benefit of paying and getting me out of the house. sadly, it's not full time, or else i totally would.
otherwise, life has been reduced to reading books and looking for work. at this point, i dont even know how i would react to actually having a job. when sega and EA called me for interviews twice in one week, i actually broke down and cried, because it was the best thing that had happened to me in so long that i didnt know how to deal with it. that both ended up not panning out was almost inevitable.