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toosutoSo yesterday was a Big Day in the hunting of jobs. I had a job shadow set up with a local PR firm and the Washington State Partnership Fair. Plus I have a few random errands to due.
So I am up early and I am at Ferris high School at 8am to drop off the rough ground plans for their spring production of Rumours and head downtown to meet with the PR firm. I am pleasantly surprised: I am there for four hours. I get to discuss the general process they go through and clients and a wide range of topics. I sit in on a meeting to go over a survey they got back from one of their clients. I contribute to the meeting and provide other useful information to them while I am there (woot for the good impression making!) I have just enough time to run back up the south hill to walk my cousin's dog while she basks in sunny orange county (I am hating her right now) and rush back to my house to change clothes for the partnership fair. As I am on my way out the door yet another ad agency I have been trying to meet with calls me. I spend the next 30 minutes or so shmoozing their technical director. I have to turn down some outsourced work because 1) I think it is a little beyond me (XML hooks into a SQL database? I'm still not sure... the research is still a little back burner for me) and 2) I have a few too many bit projects on my plate I need to get rid of first.
I spend about three and half hours at the job fair where there are maybe 35-50 booths (including the State Department, the Forest Service the IRS, the Spokane PD, and the Idaho State Patrol whom I declined to talk to especially after I did stop at the Navy booth and they told me I was too old. After the first hour tho' I couldn't really see peoples faces anymore. I found that while I was talking to any one of these company reps that their face would kind of blur out until all I could really see was eyes, nose and mouth but with out any real detail... I would actuall have to blink them back into some sort of focus where they had any sort of unique characteristics. It was a little on the weird side. Anyway it's over now and out of the 20-25 employers I talked too maybe 3 didn't write me off completely and hopefully something will come out me following up with them next week.
So I am up early and I am at Ferris high School at 8am to drop off the rough ground plans for their spring production of Rumours and head downtown to meet with the PR firm. I am pleasantly surprised: I am there for four hours. I get to discuss the general process they go through and clients and a wide range of topics. I sit in on a meeting to go over a survey they got back from one of their clients. I contribute to the meeting and provide other useful information to them while I am there (woot for the good impression making!) I have just enough time to run back up the south hill to walk my cousin's dog while she basks in sunny orange county (I am hating her right now) and rush back to my house to change clothes for the partnership fair. As I am on my way out the door yet another ad agency I have been trying to meet with calls me. I spend the next 30 minutes or so shmoozing their technical director. I have to turn down some outsourced work because 1) I think it is a little beyond me (XML hooks into a SQL database? I'm still not sure... the research is still a little back burner for me) and 2) I have a few too many bit projects on my plate I need to get rid of first.
I spend about three and half hours at the job fair where there are maybe 35-50 booths (including the State Department, the Forest Service the IRS, the Spokane PD, and the Idaho State Patrol whom I declined to talk to especially after I did stop at the Navy booth and they told me I was too old. After the first hour tho' I couldn't really see peoples faces anymore. I found that while I was talking to any one of these company reps that their face would kind of blur out until all I could really see was eyes, nose and mouth but with out any real detail... I would actuall have to blink them back into some sort of focus where they had any sort of unique characteristics. It was a little on the weird side. Anyway it's over now and out of the 20-25 employers I talked too maybe 3 didn't write me off completely and hopefully something will come out me following up with them next week.
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Date: 20 Feb 2004 14:03 (UTC)just kidding, i hate people too. good luck
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Date: 20 Feb 2004 17:03 (UTC)