February 2012
5 posts
Dating?? Wait I Mean Job Hunting?!
It has finally hit me. After three months of looking for a job, interviewing, researching my options online, looking for jobs that are less than what I deserve,I have come to the conclusion JOB HUNTING IS EXACTLY LIKE DATING. As much as I hate dating, and boy I think I hate job hunting more, maybe it’s time for me to start playing this game with a little more edge. I am going to start treating job...
Part Time Nonsense
Once February hit a couple days ago….(it was a couple days ago right?! My days all seem to blend into one….) I had come to realize that my “short term goals” had yet to be completed. Yes, I had completed my goals of applying to every job on the planet, doing home yoga until I could complete downward dog again, and creating hundreds of Pinterest boards about my future...
January 2012
22 posts
The Waiting Game
This is the week. The week that will determine if I get the job….or need to go all the way back to GO, without collecting 200 dollars. This is the week…… THE WEEK TO PLAY THE WAITING GAME
The waiting game, if you are new to this area, is when you have to wait, patiently, or in my case impatiently, for something you want really really bad. It consists of constant anxiety, pacing,...
Boston Highlights
Yesterday was my Boston day trip. East coast and back in 12 hours, shove three interviews in the middle of that. Yep, I think I can handle it.
I was half expecting a Mark Wahlberg, Boston mobster, Jimmy Fallon, little drunk Irish men Boston, but didn’t get to experience that…..YET. Maybe I just needed to spend some more time roaming the streets before those things become present. Even...
Interview Rock Out Jams
Well researching for my up and coming interview this Thursday (AHHH A REAL INTERVIEW IN A REAL CITY) I decided that the most important thing I could do to prepare is to figure out the best ultra cool interview rock out playlist. Because there is nothing more rock n roll than songs that combine rock, work, and the real world.
1) The Offspring - Why don’t you get a job
“I won’t...
Horoscopes = Life Stalkers
So here’s my horoscope for today. Let’s just say the stars are aligning and someone is reading them right.
Leo: You didnt come here to live a simple or trivial life. This idea has been swimming around in your head long enough for you to be ready for a change. And it looks like your right on top of a big one. I cant tell you how its going to turn out, but I can tell you that its safe...
Oh Mm Gee! CAREER FAIRS
The events I hated the most in college were career fairs. Any event that didn’t involve booze, easily would have made that list, but career fairs were far far worse. Its sweaty hand shaking, sweaty pit hiding, fortune 500 companies that want to make you into another one of their drones, thousands of students competing for the one open unpaid internship, panty hose wearing, and long line waiting....
Didnt I Graduate??
Today is probably the busiest day of my post grad life so far. I have a huge interview and career fair to prepare for tomorrow. You know its bad when your TO DO list is too big for your on screen post it notes, and its already 1:30 and you haven’t checked one thing off.
My first job interview is for a media position for a specific account, for a huge global media company. This means that I...
“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via intensifyit)
What Really Happens to your Online Job Apps
So everyday after applying to hundreds of jobs online and filling out such tedious questions such as “What is you name, your age, your weight, your celebrity crush.” I can’t help but wonder WHERE THE HELL MY APPLICATION IS GOING AND WHY WONT ANYONE ANSWER ME BACK. It is a slow life in the job hunting world, and for someone with no patience, this is really testing me. So for a...
Scariest Thing Ever - ROUTINE
This is the end of my first week back home. Well my REAL first week back home. No one is on break anymore. All my friends are back in school, or working, which means that I am lacking those certain individuals that like to go out to lunch and have noon beers, or lay around and watch tv all day with me. Sorry Jesse, but I am at this thing called Work. Maybe you’ve heard of it, oh wait I...
A Little Love
So after having a long day of applying to millions of jobs and having my mom criticize me for being so negative all the time…….Geez mom its not negativity its sobriety. I decided to name a few of the things I love about being home. And I mean a few.
1. Calvin
He has a bigger attitude problem than me, is more selfish than me, and we both love any kind of meat (bacon, sausage,...
You Know Your College Sick When.....
So last night after I updated my Facebook profile to the new and ultra cool Timeline edition, I decided to take it for a spin and relive my college years. Well going through the countless posts from my past, and cringing at the thought of them ever being exposed to the outside world, I started to become a little “college sick.”
Facebook was once my friends, only for COLLEGE STUDENTS. I couldn’t...
Typical Monday
For the past couple of weeks my Mondays have been the same routine. Jump out of bed in the morning (or well my morning which usually is noon) run to my computer praying that my dream last night about receiving the YOU’RE HIRED email is true. Open my MSU email account and then go through the 2 pages of spam I’ve acquired over the weekend, hoping that at least one of my many job emails got some type...
Take That Liver
Well the weekend is over, and for most of my college friends thats the end of winter break. Do I even have friends in college anymore? Ok maybe real world friends getting back to work? I don’t know if I have those either.
While leaving my old college digs this morning I was feeling sort of nostalgic about not coming back to take classes. Then I remembered how much early classes suck,...
The Suburban Nightmare
I wanted to give a little background information in this post about exactly where I am from, just to expand your imagination a little. Also so you can stop thinking I’m living in a trailer somewhere out in the boonies.
I grew up in straight suburbia. Straight, straight, straight suburbia. It was a 1950’s American dream, white picket fences and all. (Well actually our fences were gray and iron...
Student Loans - Toying with the Devil
So today was spent doing what I have put off to do the past four and a half years; Figure out how the hell the government has managed to screw me into tons of debt right in front of my face.
I’m talking about STUDENT LOANS *scary ghostly eerie noises added in right here*
Yeah I may have signed those contracts, but did I really know what they meant? Hell No! I just saw it as a way to get my bum ass...
How To: Surviving the Townie Bar
Being back home and being over the age of 21 there is only ONE, and I mean one thing that I like to do….and that is apply for jobs. Oops I think I meant drink. So of course the only bars in your hometown, (because face it, not everyone grew up in the cool city, or the chic college/coastal/tourist town) are going to be the townie bars. Let me give you my definition of what I mean:
Townie...
10 Commandments of Being a Hometown Post Grad
1) Thou shall avoid thy parents as much as possible while back home.
*Unless they are making dinner, offering praise to your great accomplishments, if you are in need of comfort, money, and/or unconditional love after your many failed job interviews.
2) Thou shall not date townies
*Read post from earlier
3) Thou shall eat all the free meals that are available, but not get fat.
*There may...
Day One/1
Here it is. The moment you’ve been waiting for. Those four years (well in my case four and a half) have passed you by. You’ve experienced life, or so you thought. First years of freedom, first loves, first, second and third nights, weeks and months of puking in almost any corner, item, room, and those long hours of drinking games have not prepared you for what is about to come. YOUR...