Post Conference Update

[livingdeb]

My trip to San Antonio went well. The conference was much less boring than I feared. Plus I don't have to memorize a lot of the really crazy stuff I heard, like when coaches are allowed to start using text messaging to communicate with prospects.

I got to wander around downtown San Antonio a bit, which I enjoyed except for the heat. A few places I want to take Robin to include:
* the Riverwalk
* Tower of the Americas
* the IMAX theatre in the RiverCenter mall
* the Spanish Governor's Palace
* Schilo's German deli
* the weekday lunch buffet at the Grand Hyatt
All of these are walking distance from each other.

I wrote some journal entries on paper from which I will spare you as they are filled with boring notes and long explanations about how I really want a better job. Basically, I'm getting the fabulous opportunity of learning to be a better bureaucrat and have the kind of job that I recall one career interest test choosing as the one most suited to my interests (inspector/auditor - basically, checking that other people are doing what they're supposed to). But that interest test must be wrong, because this can't be as good as it gets. Of all the things I could become an expert in, bureaucrat isn't even on my list.

I have a new self-imposed deadline for finding a new job: the registration period for next year's training conference. But deadlines and negatives do not help me get a job. And the futility of it all that I feel while I'm at work is a detriment. Of course I have to take positive actions, and I haven't taken any since I got back from Florida except to apply for that one job (from which I have heard nothing, as usual). I need to build a portfolio of educational materials.

I just picked up a book on how to build web sites, with information ranging from how to choose a provider and choose a name to html and css to advertising your site, so I've been reading that to give me more information on starting that educational web site I thought up on the way back from Florida. (On which I can publish things for my portfolio.) This doesn't sound like the best idea (I should be actually making stuff), but it's helping me get relevant ideas, so that's good.

Comments

[pamwheatfree.livejournal.com]

Being an inspector wasn't so bad. I did it in manufacturing where I got to read part specifications and blueprints and compare them to actual finished items. It was more fun to make the parts than to inspect them but I was very good at the paperwork and inspection stuff.

Now I do the same kind of job with visa applications. I look to see if everything they are supposed to write down and hand in are there. It is very similar to inspection.

My point is that the job can be the correct one but it takes a lot of different forms. Inspector/auditor can mean a lot of different things.