Done this weekend (20120505 Sa - 06 Su)

[mdlbear]

Some work on self-assessment, more tweaking of the resume and various profiles, conversations about hard topics, and some tasty cooking. Wonderful hang-out time with Naomi and Colleen. One walk, and a lot of puttering. Lots of links. Which means I spent too much time on the web.

Saturday night I went out on the porch with Naomi to

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[fractalwolf]

I was just trying to explain the spoon theory to someone they other day ... thanks for re-linking to it!

Also, a quick comment about 3 bedroom apartments: bizarrely enough I've occassionally seen situations where 2 smaller apartments (2br + a studio) cost less than a 3 bedroom, esp if the person in the studio can bring their laundry to the bigger apartment. So it's worth checking to see whether that's the case in San Jose.

Lastly: Does the full address dice.com requires absolutely have to be your home address? Does it pass it on to employers to mail you at? If not, is there any reason you can't lie to it, to get it to show you jobs in the area you want?

[mdlbear]

Thanks for the tip! That may prove *very* very useful!

I'm actually looking around Seattle, but the same thing applies, obviously. (I just looked at studio apartment rents in San Jose -- they start about where a 2-bedroom is in Seattle.)

I'm planning to switch my dice.com address to a friend's. I don't know whether they pass it to employers, but they definitely use it to define your search area.

[chaoswolf]

Good luck with that sibling thing. Though I hope she finds lodgings elsewhere so as not to inconvenience you.

[mdlbear]

Not much chance of that in the short run unless she gets a job somewhere :( And the bright side is that she's 800mi farther from the UBF, and won't be getting nearly as much money from us.

It'll be something of an annoyance, but we'll put up with it.