Post Conference Update
Jun. 8th, 2008 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebMy 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.
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.