OK, I’m eating my words from my last post.
I have an interview on Friday.
(not that it means I’m going to get a job)
But still. O_o
Monthly Archive: August 2006
Scared away
I had a cold hit from Monster.ca the other day. That is, someone saw my resume on the site and decided to contact me. The guy is a head hunter looking to fill a Perl developer position. Well, I was excited, because I’d done a lot of Perl work in the past. Thing is, I’m not really on top of Perl modules and some of the more crazy things like installing modules from CPAN (hummmmm), but I’m pretty good with picking apart algorithms and working with variables and such. Regular expressions are my friend! I’m not a beginner, but I’m not fully advanced. Truth be told, I’d pin my self as beginner-intermediate, if only because I’m not feeling so confident right now.
Anyway, back to this guy. I emailed him back telling him about my co-op terms. He called me up shortly after and seemed suddenly hesitant because of my fresh grad status. His questions seemed all the more pointed as a result. As such, I was flustered and answer rather stupidly in my opinion.
So, all right, I’m not confident at all about getting this job. Can you blame me? Ugh. This sucks, yo. I feel like I’m stuck between two places. I don’t want an internship position. I mean, I have 3 years of job experience as it is. I’ve paid my dues. However, no one wants to stick a new grad in a proper position. It’s just not prudent from the company’s point of view, know what I mean? It seems that the only companies that understand are the ones that have worked closely with UW in the past. I guess it’s just hard finding such a company in Toronto. Does this mean I’ll have to expand my job search to include opportunities farther away?
Résumé addendum
[12:06:59 PM] Jebus!: You should update your résumé to say “Not a terrorist”
[12:07:14 PM] rescue me: Apparently.
Familiar sights and sounds at the EX
With the world transforming at a high rate of change, it’s kind of comforting to know that some things are pretty constant–or at least slow to evolve. The Canadian National Exhibition is one such institution. I went there the other day with my mother, and I was pretty awed at how the things that I saw brought back memories of times when I visited in the early 90′s. The sights, the smells: they were all very familiar, and to be honest, it was comforting. I haven’t been all that interested in going over the past few years, for whatever reason. In the past, every time we went we really only just walked around and browsed the shopping pavilions, which were basically the only places my family was interested in. So, I came to associate the place with long, boring hours of wandering around. I dunno. Now that I’m older, I guess I’m able to appreciate some of these same things a little bit more. Also, I can actually show my mother some of the other things that she missed out on in the past. All in all, I’m enjoying the place more now than I did back then.
Now, if only I actually had money to spend at the fair.
(Maybe next year)
Much frailer
Scorpio (Oct. 24 – Nov. 22)
Our sense of identity is a much frailer thing than we often realize. In your case, your self image is being affected to a great extent by other people’s impressions. It’s time to rethink yours a little now, but in a really nice way.
Baked goods
Been baking more often as of late in order to pass the time away. Just made a batch of peanut butter cookies and I’m exercising a great deal of restraint to not devour the batch. They’re pretty damn good. The other day I made a sour cream coffee cake (which I now know has no coffee) with this walnut topping. It was gone within two days.
Perhaps I am driving my frustrations into the creation of baked goods. Hopefully it won’t lead to an expanding waistline. Well, if this comp thing doesn’t go through, I may have potential as a pastry chef or a baker. :plain:
Mercurial
My mood seems to vary from day to day, depending on various factors. I might say that a good word to describe my moods is “mercurial”, although truthfully I the changes aren’t all that “rapid”. I mean, the phases are really periods lasting a few days, you know? I think I’m becoming a nut case.
CI3 Memories
I was poking around some stuff on my domain when I found something from last year regarding Canadian Idol 3. Yeah, the season was kind of meh, but it was buoyed by the fact that I was participating in a fun betting pool. Actually, I was actually running the game, but whatever.
I kept score using an online scoreboard. People would send me their picks and wagers and after the results show I’d post the results. Every week the top player would have the chance to change the avatars of all other participants. In the end, Dani came out on top.
I was fiddling around with permissions a while ago, so I had no idea that this was down for a while. It’s now accessible again though.
(Yeah, I kind of enjoyed “Alive”…so sue me)
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