Gripes, Groans, and Gratuity
I have had the writing bug for the last few days and finally made the effort to put my thoughts out into the world. Be forewarned, this post has lots of ramble and idle after thoughts. Maybe i'll even come up with something I didn't think about before.
First of all, I am now in my 2nd month of unemployment and I never thought it would be so difficult to find something I am qualified to do. This has been a most humbling experience for me and there are a number of lessons I have learned in the process; most importantly, never, under any circumstances, quit your job unless you've got something absolutely lined up afterwards.
It seems a simple concept, and yet, in my delusions of grandeur, I failed to take the advice many had given me prior to my departure. At the time of me leaving my last job, I thought that I had enough skills to make my unemployment something of a mini vacation. Again, I was wrong, my conscience was right...now it's time for me to move on.
With my unemployment benefits being refused to me (based on my reasons for leaving my last job), I am now at a point where I am so determined to get my ass back into a job that I have now become a relentless job scouring bastard. Just in the last two days, I have literally hounded every recruiter I've corresponded with in the last 2 months.
My persistence somewhat payed off as I now have an interview tomorrow in San Francisco with a recruiter (for a full time position). I sent her 3 emails within the last 10 days and the last one was worded a little more curtly than it probably should've been. When I wrote it, I was at my proverbial wits end about people not bothering to respond to emails. If she had responded to the first one, regardless of what she said, I would've been satisfied and moved on to the next organization. Fortunately, what I had said caught her attention enough to give me a chance, and although she was very curt with me on the phone, I think I have a genuine chance at this position.
The job market out here isn't too bad, the problem i'm facing here is that my expertise has such a narrow focus in technology. What I need to figure out is how to become more appealing to recruiters and employers. I've started to adapt a little more to the market and decided to start adding skills that I believe I can successfully prove that I know enough about them to actually do them for a living. Some would call this 'creative' fibbing, but this is my damn blog and I'll call it whatever-the-hell I wish to suit my needs.
Which brings me to my general question: Is it dishonest or wrong to include things on your resume that you have not actually done in a job setting?
I believe it's not if you can actually perform these tasks. For example, a HUUUUGE demand in the market nowadays is to have Linux experience. Although I have only interfaced on Linux OS servers, I have only once actually built and maintained my own server at home. This was several years ago and I am very tempted to undergo another deluge of building another home server just so I can say I've done it.
Censor much?
Recently, CMT (Country Music Television) aired an edited version of Blazing Saddles. I was very excited to see this on television and had hoped that they wouldn't slash it to bits. Unfortunately, I was wrong to think that any mainstream TV network would have the balls to air a movie of this kind unless they sissify it. This was a very disappointing thing to see, but it was overshadowed by the fact that there was a commercial break literally every 12 minutes.
C'mon people! I totally understand you not wanting to offend all those sensitive peopleI would never want to associate with, but do you have to show more commercials than the entire movie length? I think that's what pissed me off the most and eventually, I had to just find something else to watch. My recommendation to you fucking pansiesis to not air movies that your pussyviewers aren't mentally capable of enjoying.
Why air a movie that you have to edit out every racial slur in order to satiate the PC gods? If you're going to edit out the words 'nigger' and 'faggot', why not edit out 'Jew' or 'ass'? Where do you people get your standards? Is there a list somewhere out there of all the things you can't say on your channel? Please...enlighten me, for I am apparently in the dark.
It's just wrong...and you have desecrated a truly great movie with your profane ignorance. Fuck you CMT, with a gigantic double-headed dildo! I have now officially blocked your channel in my cable box.
I have had the writing bug for the last few days and finally made the effort to put my thoughts out into the world. Be forewarned, this post has lots of ramble and idle after thoughts. Maybe i'll even come up with something I didn't think about before.
First of all, I am now in my 2nd month of unemployment and I never thought it would be so difficult to find something I am qualified to do. This has been a most humbling experience for me and there are a number of lessons I have learned in the process; most importantly, never, under any circumstances, quit your job unless you've got something absolutely lined up afterwards.
It seems a simple concept, and yet, in my delusions of grandeur, I failed to take the advice many had given me prior to my departure. At the time of me leaving my last job, I thought that I had enough skills to make my unemployment something of a mini vacation. Again, I was wrong, my conscience was right...now it's time for me to move on.
With my unemployment benefits being refused to me (based on my reasons for leaving my last job), I am now at a point where I am so determined to get my ass back into a job that I have now become a relentless job scouring bastard. Just in the last two days, I have literally hounded every recruiter I've corresponded with in the last 2 months.
My persistence somewhat payed off as I now have an interview tomorrow in San Francisco with a recruiter (for a full time position). I sent her 3 emails within the last 10 days and the last one was worded a little more curtly than it probably should've been. When I wrote it, I was at my proverbial wits end about people not bothering to respond to emails. If she had responded to the first one, regardless of what she said, I would've been satisfied and moved on to the next organization. Fortunately, what I had said caught her attention enough to give me a chance, and although she was very curt with me on the phone, I think I have a genuine chance at this position.
The job market out here isn't too bad, the problem i'm facing here is that my expertise has such a narrow focus in technology. What I need to figure out is how to become more appealing to recruiters and employers. I've started to adapt a little more to the market and decided to start adding skills that I believe I can successfully prove that I know enough about them to actually do them for a living. Some would call this 'creative' fibbing, but this is my damn blog and I'll call it whatever-the-hell I wish to suit my needs.
Which brings me to my general question: Is it dishonest or wrong to include things on your resume that you have not actually done in a job setting?
I believe it's not if you can actually perform these tasks. For example, a HUUUUGE demand in the market nowadays is to have Linux experience. Although I have only interfaced on Linux OS servers, I have only once actually built and maintained my own server at home. This was several years ago and I am very tempted to undergo another deluge of building another home server just so I can say I've done it.
Censor much?
Recently, CMT (Country Music Television) aired an edited version of Blazing Saddles. I was very excited to see this on television and had hoped that they wouldn't slash it to bits. Unfortunately, I was wrong to think that any mainstream TV network would have the balls to air a movie of this kind unless they sissify it. This was a very disappointing thing to see, but it was overshadowed by the fact that there was a commercial break literally every 12 minutes.
C'mon people! I totally understand you not wanting to offend all those sensitive people
Why air a movie that you have to edit out every racial slur in order to satiate the PC gods? If you're going to edit out the words 'nigger' and 'faggot', why not edit out 'Jew' or 'ass'? Where do you people get your standards? Is there a list somewhere out there of all the things you can't say on your channel? Please...enlighten me, for I am apparently in the dark.
It's just wrong...and you have desecrated a truly great movie with your profane ignorance. Fuck you CMT, with a gigantic double-headed dildo! I have now officially blocked your channel in my cable box.
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