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:( Me stupid little peon.
We were supposed to be recording with the band today. Got the drum kit set up, mics in place, cables all good, digital mixing table set up, connecting it to a laptop for recording. Previously we've used a macbook pro for that, went excellent. The guy ownign it wasn't available this time, we we used our guitarist's windows laptop. Once it was hooked up it started getting blue screens of death, so that didn't work. My laptop is newer, so we hooked that one up. It has well over the system requirements. Program (cubase 4) runned smoothly, without problems (some driver issues at the beginning aside). Then two hours later, suddenly... blue screen of death. Grr.
So recording is postponed until at least tomorrow, then we have a macbook pro to use. Just need to find a proper firewire cable, and apparently mac uses less common plugs, so let's hope that goes well.
And I won tickets to a concert, but I can't go. Grr.
Signing up for online job sites to look for jobs, mainly that most of the ones I've found, and many of the popular ones, except for LinkedIn, use regular http for logging in, without even a signed SSL certificate. Awesome.
The odds of getting a decent job through an online site are almost nil. Most HR people are swamped and don't even bother looking at resumes they get from online sites (even if they wanted to, there are too many to check). You need to go to job fairs, get in touch with people inside firms, and do anything else you can to get past the first stage of resume checks.
This is made difficult by the fact that there are often not job fairs for what I do, at least not as many as for jobs like managers, accountants, sales persons, etc. and unless someone has direct experience with what I do, may not know what exactly I do even if I show them (this can be compounded by age and technological aptitude. ie. people who think that because I do computer graphics I must know how to write computer programs, or that because I know how to do 3D I could deliver a Pixar quality animation working by myself in a few months, or that because I can do computer animation that I must be able to do hand-drawn animation, or the worst offender so far, they hear 3D Modeling and think I do some kind of modeling like a runway model instead of 2D modeling like those people who appear in magazines). Also I don't know how many nor the names of all the different studios in and around NYC that do the things I do, so I need to find them somehow. I also don't know that many people inside of firms that do what I do. I'm not saying that what you suggested isn't a good idea, I just can't use it at the current time. I do plan on applying directly to places though, this is just a component of it, and one that people in my life feel I should be doing and has visibility to them (ie. they can see my profile on these sites where-as they can't see résumés sent out, people talked to, etc).Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
I've have been to the general job fairs though. I mainly have to find one that specializes in what I do, as the general ones don't have any companies either that do what I do, or are looking for people that do so. Plus there is an inordinate amount of people who have been out of work applying for anything, even what they aren't qualified for, clogging these things up. :noob:
I'm not saying it's not tough, but you need to find answers to the things you don't know. I'm not convinced sending your resume through online sites is any more likely to get you a job than watching TV.
Yes mother.
Can't hurt to try though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
The time spent looking through those giant job mills and responding to "job openings" there can be better used to get the info that Illusions currently doesn't have. Every story I've ever read about these things has been overwhelmingly negative. I personally used it for a year with not even an interview to show for it, and I don't know a single person who managed to get a job from it. And that was when the job market was in far better shape.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flixy
It may depend on the field. But yes, I never got a job by posting online resumes until I applied for a local government job. Online applications are all they accept.
It still can't hurt to try. Maybe also calling the HR departments of those companies you find posting positions.
That's a good point. Most government jobs are online, and applying for those actually has a positive probability of success.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catgrrl
Fair enough. I (obviously) have very little experience with applying to jobs, and I have the luck that I already have a couple of phone numbers of companies that are interested when I graduate. Most friends I know who actively searched for jobs browsed online for interesting companies and openings, and then applied directly to the most interesting ones with an email + resume. They got invited to an interview ~half the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
We now only advertise for staff through seek.com.au and have a very good success rate, this applies to all positions from little shit kicker to State Manager (big shit kicker).
Not sure though if that has any relevance to the sort of work Illusions does, I should think it is necessary to pimp his work on a website as he has simply because it is the best way to present what he does without the need for a personal presentation (something only likely to occur once you make it to an interview).
My job application was digital, and that was damn near 9 years ago. Brandy moved down here everything she applied for was digital. McDonalds, Marshalls, WalMart, Publix, Target, etc... The applications are also longer. Easily reaching 100 questions as they try to peg your personality. For everything from janitors to managers.
I know those aren't exactly like resume hoarding sites, but I know a lot of very specific computer jobs are filled through Monster type sites. Its much easier for someone that spends most of their work day on a computer to search those sites for possible applicants than to put out a free for all call and have to wade through god knows how many resumes looking for the very specific software experience they want.
Fucking dickheads at fucking work, who tell me with a straight face during the performance review that they want me to pay me more, but need me to expand into "junior" planning in the next six months......................
WHEN I'VE ALREADY BEEN DOING FULL-FUCKING-FLEDGED PLANNING, AS IN NOT FUCKING JUNIOR, FOR THE LAST FUCKING YEAR, WITH THE SAME AMOUNT OF CUSTOMERS AS THE "REAL" PLANNERS, WHO KEEP COMING TO ME FOR HELP BECAUSE THEY ARE FUCKING IDIOTS.
Sorry.
Pissed off.
Baby's reflux is hitting her hard tonight...she won't go to sleep in her bassinet. She's snoring in the carseat. Previously she was whimpering, crying, and screaming on and off for the past three hours.
Supposed to be having a cookout tomorrow. Hope I won't be too tired in the morning to finish prepping. :(
Maybe she likes to sleep semi-upright? If she has a reflux problem, that would make sense. If she likes the car seat over the bassinet, just let her sleep in the damn thing. Well, as long as she's not in the driveway while you're in the house. ;)
:haha:
She's been doing so well at night, she sleeps on her side. It's during the daytime she naps on me or in her bouncy seat. I'm hoping this is just a one-time deal. The doc says reflux usually is at its worst around the 4 month mark, which is where we're at.
Office politics suck. But if you don't play, well...you get shafted in the shuffle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crowheart
Well, if she's been fussy and finally fell asleep in the car seat, I'd say just let her sleep. Maybe you can put the whole contraption (with baby girl still strapped in) in your room or her nursery? Assuming you've got a voice monitor, if she wakes up then you'll hear her and can unstrap her, lay her down in the crib, and both go back to sleep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catgrrl
Right, here's another post just for Cat. :) First of all, why would reflux be its worst at 4 months? Do tell!
Secondly, has anyone suggested that you treat her as any baby with a bad cold or sinus problems, and prop the head of her crib up on a few big books (or special bed blocks) under the legs?
I am utterly bored at work; not only is my load of new cases a lot smaller than I would expect it to be but they also are on average so simple that I deal with them within (on average) 30 minutes after recieving them. The actual load has dropped to 20 active cases, which is 7 under my official limit and 15 under actual standard.
5 hours of internet a day gets old real fast.
Local area cop trying to bait myself and another driver into going through a red light and incurring a ticket. What happened was the following:
Saturday night I'm coming home from being out in NYC, its around 10:20ish, and as I enter the parking lot after descending from the train platform I notice at the corner a blue SUV waiting to make a left at a red light. There is also a police cruiser parked about 50 feet to his right, cabin lights on, computer running, in a no-parking, no-stopping part of the street. He is parked directly next to the second half of the parking field I'm in. I don't think much of it, get in my car, exit the parking lot, and proceed to the intersection that the blue SUV was waiting at, and is still waiting at. Its taken me about 2 minutes to get down from the platform, to my car, and to this intersection. I use this intersection daily, and the light, regardless of traffic flow, is timed to about a minute. Nothing is passing through, and the blue SUV in front of me has, at this point, waited at least 2 minutes for a 1 minute light. It can't go anywhere, as there is a no right on red sign posted. I then proceed to wait for the light along with the blue SUV for another 5 minutes. Only one vehicle every passed through on the intersecting street per minute or minute and a half. The cop is still sitting there, cabin lights on, computer on. Since I'm not content to just sit there, and I have an alternative, making a hard right into the parking lot entrance using another intersection, I take it. As I pull into the parking lot I note that the cop is leaning in his vehicle so he can watch the blue SUV in his driver side rear view mirror. Its about at this point that he notices I'm no longer there, looks over through the passenger side window and notices that I'm watching him, the monitor screen for the computer goes dark, the cabin lights go off, and as I'm exiting the other side of the parking lot, he's shifted from park to drive and is taking off. About a minute after the cruiser went dark, and it started to pull away from the curb I saw the light finally turn green for the intersection the blue SUV was at, for a total of it sitting there for at least 7 minutes I observed. I can only guess he was banking on one of us losing patience with the light being red (or kept red) and going through it, at which point he would have likely pulled us over and ticketed us. :bored:
Robo calls for the upcoming election. One was an IMPORTANT SURVEY about the future of our country and 2012 candidates I'd support.
1) Romney
2) Huckabee
3) Gingrich
4) Palin
5) Obama
6) other
7) undecided
Didn't say who was conducting or sponsoring the survey....
Getting a call from a pollster messes with your groove? :confused: Didn't you complain before about never being polled?
Yes, I did! But I'd prefer to get household surveys about my demographics or general opinions, than who the GOP wants to run for President in 2012.
Is that alright with you, Loki? Or does that mess with your groove? :donkey:
Um, it's very rare for the president to have a credible primary challenger. It's not unreasonable to have Obama as the only Democrat on the list...Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
What's that got to do with anything? I'm registered Independent and couldn't vote in our closed primaries, anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
And it's not so great getting daily robo calls for senate, governor, etc. The least they can do is tell their computer how to recognize an answering machine and not leave a message asking me to press phone keys! :rolleyes:
Complaint #2 related to phone surveys. Since not as many people use land lines today, and pollsters don't call cell phones for surveys.....I'm even more skeptical about their relevance.
Don't give them any ideas...if they start calling my cell I will put my foot in their ass....
Being a stay-at-home I get these calls all the time...I'm thinking I may not even vote this time; I am sooo pissed at the candidates in my area. Nothing but mud-slinging, and commercials on back-to-back.
It's like watching 6-yr-olds: "You suck!" "No, you suck!"
Neither candidate has outlined what they plan to do.