Friday, March 30, 2007
An Interesting Story....
So I was on my way out to the garage this moring (which I park my car in) and there was a car in our driveway, blocking me in... I went to tell my roommate, as I thought this was worth noting. We went and checked it out, it didn't look like there was anyone around to ask to move it. We were ready to call the police and have it towed when my roommate, Becky noticed there was a person/people in the back seat, it was hard to tell as the windows were foggy and I wasn't interested to see much more... Becky said a girl was putting her shirt on. We went back inside with the intention of calling the police, but we figured we'd wait a few minutes as it would be pretty worthless for the police to come if they got up and left two minutes later, which they did, I'm glad to say, so I was able to make it to school...
Thursday, March 15, 2007
A Whole Lot Job Searchin'
In the past two days I've applied for nine jobs. Pretty much all of them are ones that I'd like, so hopefully one of them will work out. I even have and interview with one of the companies I met at the job fair on Friday. Not too sure what will come of it all, but something's got too work out. Ideally I'd like to stay in Duluth, and ironically it seems to be easier to look for a job here because it's easier to weed through the jobs you don't want. Anyway, wish me luck.
Monday, March 12, 2007
The Weekend and Interesting News
I went to a Wild game yesterday. My friend Kevin's girlfriend was nice enough to by tickets for him as a gift so he could take us all.Unfortunately she didn't get to come because she got sick, so anther friend came. It was a good game, The Wild won in overtime 3 to 2. Kevin missed most of the game, but... I guess he can deal with it.
I was offered a job a couple of weeks ago, it's a decent offer, but I'm passing on this one. I went and spoke with the career center at school and we came to the decision that it would be better to wait. My first concern wasn't that it didn't seem like an okay company, but I found them at the job fair, they interviewed me for less than 15 minuets and offered me a job... which was nice, but I haven't had the chance to look for a job I actually want.
Also, when I spoke with the career center, we determined that the position was temporary. Although there may have been a chance they kept me around, the offer very clearly stated at the bottom (where I was supposed to sign) that I was agreeing to "temporary full-time employment". This seemed to make sense because it a fairly small company and they were hiring a number of people. The advice the career center gave me at first was to take it and consider it as a summer internship and gain some experience, but then I brought up the fact that this company uses it's own proprietary programing language that no one else would care about when looking for
another job, and in light of the fact that I recently wasn't hired (just barely) because I hadn't used a specific language enough, we decided it would be better to look for something different.
They told me at the career center that the job market for this type of job
is so good right now that it's okay to pass on this one. And the fact that I already have a job through the summer if I need it that would be better experience anyway, just makes it easier to look for something else. I've got a good number of
options to look at, so I'm not too worried.