Networking
Mar. 27th, 2012 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday was my weekly meeting with my old chickadees, and after the presentation was over, I got up to tell one of them that we had actually tried the Greek restaurant he had recommended and it was dee-lish (though the thing we ordered was greasy). I would definitely try that place again.
Then he said he wished he had thought of hiring me part-time, for six or twelve months, as if it were now too late. I told him that I was only working half time and thus still had time available. He talked to his supervisor and she might be interested. They may get back to me.
A third person also mentioned some interest, but this employer allows only forty hours of work, and I wouldn't want more than that anyway.
That whole thing where people get jobs because they know someone, even jobs that don't even exist that are created just for them? That is happening to me now. I've heard of that before, but because my friends tend to be in fields where I have no interest (computer programming and engineering--yea! smart friends! I love you, my smart friends!), I settle for jobs with either a huge number of simultaneous openings or very high turnover, where they are nice and desperate.
These may not pan out, but the first one did, and it's sweet. It was also sweet creating a resume for a job for which I was obviously qualified. Instead of having to pick out six or eight jobs that were sort of like what I was applying for, I just put my last job, one other recent long-term job at the same employer, and my two degrees. It was also sweet not having to go on a million interviews. Or any at all.
Speaking of sweets...
Cake of the Day
I'm getting mixed messages from this one. Sweet or savory?
It looks like they used coconut for the rice. Cool.
Then he said he wished he had thought of hiring me part-time, for six or twelve months, as if it were now too late. I told him that I was only working half time and thus still had time available. He talked to his supervisor and she might be interested. They may get back to me.
A third person also mentioned some interest, but this employer allows only forty hours of work, and I wouldn't want more than that anyway.
That whole thing where people get jobs because they know someone, even jobs that don't even exist that are created just for them? That is happening to me now. I've heard of that before, but because my friends tend to be in fields where I have no interest (computer programming and engineering--yea! smart friends! I love you, my smart friends!), I settle for jobs with either a huge number of simultaneous openings or very high turnover, where they are nice and desperate.
These may not pan out, but the first one did, and it's sweet. It was also sweet creating a resume for a job for which I was obviously qualified. Instead of having to pick out six or eight jobs that were sort of like what I was applying for, I just put my last job, one other recent long-term job at the same employer, and my two degrees. It was also sweet not having to go on a million interviews. Or any at all.
Speaking of sweets...
Cake of the Day
I'm getting mixed messages from this one. Sweet or savory?
It looks like they used coconut for the rice. Cool.