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Oct. 9th, 2007 11:38 pm"Before you raise people's expectations, you have to change their preconceptions."
I'm watching No Reservations on the travel channel, and some New Jersey dairy farmer just uttered the above. It's brilliant, and for someone in my position, very essential.
I'm still looking for work. I'm bored, lonely, frustrated, stressed, bored, getting more broke by the day, and trying not to give up hope. Oh, and did I mention bored?
I have four possibilities going right now: one, an interview done and waiting to hear about a second; two, my resume sent by a recruiter today to a place in Mass for which I'm his only candidate (so far); three, my resume sent to another hospital in New Hampshire for a job I could start work on tomorrow; and four, a job I passed on all the way back at the beginning of August because the salary was too low is back on the market, and I'm interested.
Naturally, the job that pays the most is the furthest away. The job I interviewed for (and have a good shot at, there's two openings) is the environment I least want to work in (shirt and tie, several dozen desks overcrowded in the same room). The hospital job is very likely going to be the same old problems in a different venue. And the job I passed on is the nearest, pays the least, and has the least interesting work and probably the least opportunity for learning New Stuff.
But money's money and beggers can't be choosers. I will be very happy to be employed, and have hope for that happening by the end of the month. Which brings me back to me lead quotation. The person's whose preconceptions I need to worry about first are mine. I have this annoying tendancy to get the cart before the horse, and for once in my life I'd like to get it right for a change.
I'm watching No Reservations on the travel channel, and some New Jersey dairy farmer just uttered the above. It's brilliant, and for someone in my position, very essential.
I'm still looking for work. I'm bored, lonely, frustrated, stressed, bored, getting more broke by the day, and trying not to give up hope. Oh, and did I mention bored?
I have four possibilities going right now: one, an interview done and waiting to hear about a second; two, my resume sent by a recruiter today to a place in Mass for which I'm his only candidate (so far); three, my resume sent to another hospital in New Hampshire for a job I could start work on tomorrow; and four, a job I passed on all the way back at the beginning of August because the salary was too low is back on the market, and I'm interested.
Naturally, the job that pays the most is the furthest away. The job I interviewed for (and have a good shot at, there's two openings) is the environment I least want to work in (shirt and tie, several dozen desks overcrowded in the same room). The hospital job is very likely going to be the same old problems in a different venue. And the job I passed on is the nearest, pays the least, and has the least interesting work and probably the least opportunity for learning New Stuff.
But money's money and beggers can't be choosers. I will be very happy to be employed, and have hope for that happening by the end of the month. Which brings me back to me lead quotation. The person's whose preconceptions I need to worry about first are mine. I have this annoying tendancy to get the cart before the horse, and for once in my life I'd like to get it right for a change.
