Monsters and Career Builders

Positions in the world of the internet, can escalate you to the outer limits of the imagination and the feeling of desperation to the lowest hole in finding what you need.

As you search for that perfect job, the lines of demarcation soon become blurred. There are so many choices, and you have to make a choice. When recruiters tell you that you really may change careers three times or more in a lifetime, why not look for all of those interests as the time allows? Becaue it is a trap of the genuius brain. You go nowhere, you get confused. You are thinking well, I can do that, why don’t I just do it. Because dummy, it isn’t as easy as it looks.

Lets say you are spending about three hours a day looking online for a better professional position. That is a reasonable amount of time. You get bored. You think okay, I’m sitting here on my arse, not getting anything done, and no money coming in. Can’t afford a typing service, can’t afford a resume service, just have to keep plugging on. Well, no that is not right. What you say! Why not? Depending on your family status, you might be able to get food stamps or other serives to help you during the really sparse time you are out of work.

Because there are other places where you can get help! You can go to your local YWCA if you are a women to get help to rewrite your resume. You can go to the library to check out the volumns of information there. You might as well get out of the house and find the help. Why not ask your best friend to help you as well? What line of business is that person in? Are your skills and education the same? Do you have enough professional respect for that person to ask them?

When you go online to check out the databases of Monster, and Careerbuilder, it can take hours just getting through their stuff. And even then, you may not have found what you really want.

Depending on the particular specifics and technical aspects  and the up to dateness of the computer you are using, the search may go well, or be frustrating. The tehnical differences in high speed internet is vastly different than DSL services. You may have a great experience in DSL, then feel like your girlfirnd dumped you if you are using high speed internet. Sometimes it can be agonizingly slow when going back and forth between pages by uploading your resume, then changing the cover letter to the specifications of the companys requirements etc. That can be especially so if you are using the computers at the library or using a friends computer or elsewhere.

However, having said all of that, you must keep up a good attitude. Getting a better job may not generally happen in a few days, or even afew months. What you need is a resilience of attitude, some savings or another part time job to keep the hunger pains at bay. Don’t forget to laugh at yourself, you can’t be a goodytwo shoes all of the time, you have moments of feeling really sad. Yes, those are harsh words, but trust me, they are true. Remember, the sun usually comes up everyday, some days it will rain, but when it does rain it is to make the flowers, grass, and vegetables grow for us to eat and animals to use. The rain will clear the atmosphere for each of us, to make the earth a better place to live in for us all.

Triple Threat

Cable VS Digital March 2, 2007

You say you want to switch from your cable company because the rates are too high for your programming, and not only that, but, the digital broadband company has a triple play deal! Welcome to reality of commerce. A hundred bucks a month for internet, tv, and your phone with free local calls anywhere in the U.S., such a deal. It really is a deal these days, because your phone used to cost you $60.00 monthly or more, the tv cable $60.00 or more and the internet $25.00 a month which totals $145.00. They also do not have to dig up your yard to install cable wires. Good deal, You are now saving $45.00 per month, which equals $783.00 a year. That is enough to go away for a good weekend somewhere where it is warm, in January or February. Next year that savings might even be enough to get one of those fancy flat screen tvs that you can hang on a wall. Remember, put the savings away for something else that next year will save you even more money. Or you could even use the money now toward a laptop computer, which you can use to get more work done, and make more money$$$$. Ah capitalism!

 Remember when you were younger and Ma Bell used to charge  hundreds of dollars to your parents when you would ring up hundreds of dollars in long distance calls to your new romance partner. Those special hours on the phone which would erupt in giggles and sometimes tears you would eventually have to pay for in one way or another may or may not have been worth the trouble in retrospect.

Your mothers face got all red and she almost cussed you out when she saw the bill. Well in my house, I had to get a part time job to pay it off. If my dad had seen the bill, my bottom would have been real red, with handprints decorating it, and hot at the same time. I spent some time staying to myself when Dad was home before I paid the bill off.

Ah Technology and People Power

Screech, swoosh, and fly on by the toll taker, but, don’t forget to pay the toll. Although these days states are trying to make money by sending you violations that are not accurate, they say oh yes you went in this lane on that day, at this time. Well, maybe you better check with whoever else was riding with you. Do you know that a photograph is taken of each vehicle that goes through a toll booth?

Your feet are also going to go screech, and swoosh when you get the violation bill, in fact you might want to sit down in a chair before you open the envelope. The envelope please! Oh just $2.50 toll, that isn’t bad, but check out the whopping fine of $15.00 as a violation fee. You could end up owing the state of Maryland hundreds of dollars just because of their EZ Pass technology which isn’t working correctly.

Ah oh yes, you have turned in the ID strip that you bought when you first signed up for the pass. Yet, you are still getting violation notices, and yes, you are paying cash when you go through a booth. AGRRHHH!!

So what do you do? Mail a well written letter to your governor who has been newly elected to void and null all violations because the technology just isn’t working. That might work if the rest of the people who are having problems also decide to take action.

Technology isn’t working the way it is supposed to, because people are getting fined when they should not be. Ah technology, now we really need people power to take the techies to task to fix the buggies. I say march on but, send letters to the Governor, and the press, yes they will get published.

Have a great day!