Happy New Year, Again
Jan. 1st, 2002 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterSo, it was another 8 1/2 hour day today. (8 hours of work, 1/2 hour of lunch.) I can't say that I really minded, it being a holiday and all. Working 8 hours and getting paid for 12 is okay in my book, especially since I've never really seen the point of New Year's Day being a holiday per se. I mean, what are you really celebrating? The end of one more or less arbitrary period of time and the beginning of another? Sure, it's symbolic and all, but you might as well celebrate the striking of a clock, or the end of the week--oh, hey, wait, we do sort of celebrate the end of the week. Never mind. But anyway, New Year's Day doesn't really feel like a holiday, so I don't really mind working on it.
I've decided not to be particularly worried about that $102 check thing. The worst they can do is fire me, after all--and Aaron seemed pretty confident I could get on at his employer, who seems to be primarily a web design firm. I'd have to learn PHP, but hey, if Wil Wheaton could do it, I bet I could. I sent my résumé to him this morning (Aaron, not Wil Wheaton), such as it is. I'm probably going to have to go ahead and retype it all in from scratch, though. Converting from WordPerfect seemed not to go so well, it stuck everything into funky tables that mess up the spacing. I'd simply use Word's résumé wizard, but I never have been able to figure out how to make it insert more than one prior school or prior employer, and limited to just one it's sort of useless.
After I get that set up, well, if Aaron's attempt doesn't come to anything, then I'll see about putting the resume into Monster for another go-round, and also User-Friendly's Geekfinder. I'll surely have better luck with the job offers now that I have an actual CIS degree. I'll also look into K-Mart's website to see what they have to offer there. It's just been so hard to get up the willpower to attack the thing lately--as well as to keep updated here, when it comes right down to it. I need to force myself to sit down and attack it one of these days, though. I'm not getting any more employed just sitting here.
Work today wasn't bad; it was really kind of quiet. I'd thought that it could go either way, but had expected it to be more busy than it was, what with people having time off. I mean, like I said before, New Year's never seemed to me to be the sort of holiday you'd want to observe by spending time together, in the same way as Christmas. But what do I know? But one noteworthy thing did happen today. I had five people buy the DVD of the movie The Fast and the Furious. And--I swear I'm not making this up--every single one of those people buying it remarked on how it wasn't supposed to be out until tomorrow, and they were surprised at being able to find it at K-Mart today. I suppose that someone must not have been careful enough checking the street date before setting them out. Anyway, all the buyers were remarkably enthusiastic about it.
When I happened to mention this to the cashier working next to me, he proved to be even more enthusiastic, and regaled me with factoids about the cars used in the film, and how the hero's car could go from zero to 140 miles per hour over the course of a quarter mile, even without nitro. He went on about how the DVD of it was going to be excellent, worth buying even without renting. And this is a movie I can barely even recall hearing of, let alone if reviewers generally thought it was good or bad . . . and I'm usually pretty good about knowing at least if a movie has a more or less "good" or "sucks" rating, even if it's not generally my thing. It's a weird feeling, sort of wondering if things are passing me by.
New year, new year . . . you know, it's got to be better than the old year. It's just got to. Not every year has maniacs crash two planes into two skyscrapers and kill three thousand people.
I've decided not to be particularly worried about that $102 check thing. The worst they can do is fire me, after all--and Aaron seemed pretty confident I could get on at his employer, who seems to be primarily a web design firm. I'd have to learn PHP, but hey, if Wil Wheaton could do it, I bet I could. I sent my résumé to him this morning (Aaron, not Wil Wheaton), such as it is. I'm probably going to have to go ahead and retype it all in from scratch, though. Converting from WordPerfect seemed not to go so well, it stuck everything into funky tables that mess up the spacing. I'd simply use Word's résumé wizard, but I never have been able to figure out how to make it insert more than one prior school or prior employer, and limited to just one it's sort of useless.
After I get that set up, well, if Aaron's attempt doesn't come to anything, then I'll see about putting the resume into Monster for another go-round, and also User-Friendly's Geekfinder. I'll surely have better luck with the job offers now that I have an actual CIS degree. I'll also look into K-Mart's website to see what they have to offer there. It's just been so hard to get up the willpower to attack the thing lately--as well as to keep updated here, when it comes right down to it. I need to force myself to sit down and attack it one of these days, though. I'm not getting any more employed just sitting here.
Work today wasn't bad; it was really kind of quiet. I'd thought that it could go either way, but had expected it to be more busy than it was, what with people having time off. I mean, like I said before, New Year's never seemed to me to be the sort of holiday you'd want to observe by spending time together, in the same way as Christmas. But what do I know? But one noteworthy thing did happen today. I had five people buy the DVD of the movie The Fast and the Furious. And--I swear I'm not making this up--every single one of those people buying it remarked on how it wasn't supposed to be out until tomorrow, and they were surprised at being able to find it at K-Mart today. I suppose that someone must not have been careful enough checking the street date before setting them out. Anyway, all the buyers were remarkably enthusiastic about it.
When I happened to mention this to the cashier working next to me, he proved to be even more enthusiastic, and regaled me with factoids about the cars used in the film, and how the hero's car could go from zero to 140 miles per hour over the course of a quarter mile, even without nitro. He went on about how the DVD of it was going to be excellent, worth buying even without renting. And this is a movie I can barely even recall hearing of, let alone if reviewers generally thought it was good or bad . . . and I'm usually pretty good about knowing at least if a movie has a more or less "good" or "sucks" rating, even if it's not generally my thing. It's a weird feeling, sort of wondering if things are passing me by.
New year, new year . . . you know, it's got to be better than the old year. It's just got to. Not every year has maniacs crash two planes into two skyscrapers and kill three thousand people.
