Job Interviews

So I guess I have another update.  Whoah, two in one quarter?  Yeah, both my readers are so lucky.  Seriously.

So if you look down 2 posts, you'll see my post about quitting my job.  Since then, I have been jobless, and only pretty recently, moneyless.  My nest egg has run out and it's really time I should get a job.  Here's the thing, though, I've been applying for jobs during this ~3 month break, and nothing has come from it.  Until this week.

I got a call from one company, I put in an application there like 2 months ago and they are just now calling me about it.. so I had an interview today, and I felt like it went pretty well.  I was the first out of "a few" people they were going to interview, so I still don't know the final word on that one.  Also yesterday I had a phone interview with another company I applied for, and will probably go in for a personal interview later this week or early next week (fingers crossed), and I also received an email from a friend who mentioned a friend of hers was looking for someone to work for them, and they only worked through referrals.

So in a matter of 1 week I get 3 potential jobs, when for the past 3 months I've heard nothing.  I can't help but wonder why this happens..  maybe it's supposed to be some grand lesson about how I need to be more decisive..  In any case, the hope is that I will have a job soon and no longer be moneyless.  Depending on which job I land, too, I might even be able to afford to move out of my parent's house.  I know, right, how pathetic am I?  Well, I really appreciate the free rent while I'm going to school, I hope my parents know that...  but there ought to be a point where I should leave, dontcha think?

Yeah, me too.

Jobless But Not Girlfriendless

So it's been a few months huh?  Hm.  Well, I guess I have a few updates that some of you might find .... readable?

Since quitting my job, I still haven't found another.  I've applied to several places, but no luck.  I'm starting to see the "error of my ways," I really probably shouldn't have quit without another job lined up.  It was nice to be jobless for a couple months, but now I'm really needing another one...  in the meantime, I'm taking a couple classes at school, neither of which I'm really quite sure why I'm taking other than working toward the degree.  I have been learning a few things in them though so I suppose it's not all a waste?  But in hindsight I really don't think I should have taken classes this semester without a job..  I really could have used that money.  Oh well, too late to do anything about it now. =/

I met a cute girl after a ward activity a little over a month ago.  Rather, I should say she met me.  After the activity I was sitting on the sideline while a group of people were playing basketball and she came up to me and asked "Can I meet you?"  Haha.  She was new to the ward, so was trying to get to know the people, which is good.  Or at least that's what I thought.  Come to find out later she actually wanted to meet me.  There's even more to that story and maybe I'll share that some other time.  Anyway, we had a decently long conversation, probably around an hour and a half or so, before parting ways.  After seeing her a couple of other times at activities and watching a movie together, I decided I wanted to ask her on a date.  So we went on our first date, had a good time (well I guess I can't speak for her... but I did!), and over the next month or so began to spend more and more time together.  We decided to make our relationship official (can't make it Facebook official since I don't have one :P) on 9/24.  So yeah, it hasn't really been all that long, but I've really enjoyed spending time with her.  The other day we went for a walk on the river trail (east side) and ended up near one of the few sets of train tracks.  Just as I was thinking "Hmm, I kinda wanna go up there.." (because they're above the trail), she asked if I wanted to go up to the train tracks.  That was pretty awesome, honestly.

So while we were up there, we decided to take some pictures, cause we really didn't have very many of us, and I personally didn't have any at all, so we decided to take a few on the tracks.  Here's my personal favorite:

Yeah, I know you can't really see her very well.  This is the only one I have uploaded so far from my phone, so I'll probably post a couple more when I get around to it.  But this was by far my favorite.  She's super cute and it's refreshing to date someone again after roughly two and a half years of un-intentional "celibacy."

So yeah..  I guess that's it for my... quarterly (?) update.

All Done

So I had my last day at work today.  Put in my 2 weeks notice... well, 2 weeks ago.  I had been working there for about the past 4 years and 10 months, and it had been a good job up until January of this year.  I don't know the innerworkings of the decisions, since I'm not family, but essentially the company split into 3 smaller companies, my guess is so that the owner could pass it on to his kids.  Like I said, I don't know all the reasons for the business decisions, but whatever it was... it didn't work too well.  Since January it's basically all been going downhill.  Each individual company, it seems, didn't have the revenue needed to keep them afloat.  Things were kinda bad but I didn't really consider leaving too much up until it was announced that my boss (whom I liked) was going to be leaving the company for a new job.

It was then that the slightly negative decline fell off the proverbial cliff.

So to compensate for the failing companies, the company I worked for was going to be absorbed into another one (that wasn't doing quite so bad), which put me under a new boss.... who I really didn't like.  The new boss made it feel like a prison..  we had to sign some employee conduct agreement that basically said we couldn't do anything but work.  No cell phone usage, no streaming music online ("because we need to save bandwidth" pfft), among other things.  Now, dont get me wrong, I understand a boss who wants their employees to make the best of their time while on the clock, but there's gotta be a limit to how much you can make your place of employment feel like a prison.  So there was that, and there was also the fact that I knew what they were going to put me in charge of if I stayed there, and I really just didn't want to do that.  And because of the money issues our paychecks were being delayed by 2-3 more days than they ever were before, and I felt like I should probably quit while they could still afford to pay me.

So today was the last day, and I gotta tell ya...  it feels weird.  I mean, I've been there for so long it's gonna be weird waking up tomorrow and not having a job to go to.  Not only that, I kinda left them high and dry.  Upon leaving for the day, I took a picture of the work they've already fallen behind on since they've put other people in charge of my job, which is about 2 days worth.  It makes me feel kinda bad, but also not too much at the same time.  The owner was notorious for accusing me of doing nothing but being on my cell phone or other websites all day...  I hope now they realize just how much work I had been doing and how much they took me for granted.

That does seem kinda crappy of me to say, but hey...  again, my dislike for the place and for my boss sorta prevents me from feeling bad.

So there's an update for you. :)

Mia

So I think I've finally decided on a name for my motorcycle.. yeah, only took a year. That's not so bad.... right? I decided that it's gonna be Mia. Anyway, so a couple of weeks ago I finally had the opportunity (read: it was warm enough) to put on my rim tape on my wheels. It's a red tape to match the bike, and it's also reflective which you can see in 2 of these pictures when the flash went off on my camera. I still need to see if my sister will do a photoshoot with me and Mia together, but I haven't officially asked her yet ;) So I just did these all amateur-like with my own camera. I know I've been promising pictures for awhile, and finally I felt like she was pretty enough to take some. Enjoy!

In case you don't remember my last (and first) motorcycle "Balinha," here's a picture of her so you can see the difference between the two pretty clearly:

So what's it like to actually have something to write about? Okay, well, part of the reason why I haven't updated was because a month ago I bought a new computer, and I haven't yet bothered to set all of the bookmarks I used to have on my other computer, so I haven't even checked my (and other's) blogs or anything.. so that pretty much explains the last month. But the 2 months before that? Eh. Really, if anything amazing happened, I'd probably let you know about it. Things have happened, I just don't know that I would classify them as amazing.

I opted to not take any classes this semester at school, for various reasons. In no particular order: 1) To work full time and save up money to get me a head start on the next couple of semesters 2) because I have no idea what I even want to study so I want to take some time to figure it out 3) because I seriously procrastinated registration so I couldn't even get into the classes I needed/wanted anyway without dealing with that whole waiting list garbage.

Turns out it was a good thing I didn't have any classes this semester, I think. In January, the company I work for went through some major changes, essentially they split into 3 smaller companies, and suddenly I found myself moving to a new location and being the one put in charge of an entire warehouse worth of inventory. It was a pretty tall order. For several weeks, from the moment I clocked in (8am) to the moment I clocked out (5pm) I was so busy I couldn't even think straight. The good part is, the time flew by those days, but it came with a price: my sanity. I was going pretty crazy and even once was so frustrated with all of my new responsibilities, and having to take care of them in a brand new system with a steep learning curve, I considered quitting. I didn't, thank goodness. I can only imagine what a terrible mess I would have been if I had to juggle those new responsibilities and a school schedule. I'm really glad I didn't take any classes this semester.

But now that my job has calmed down quite a bit, I'm beginning to see just how much free time I have at work... it actually kind of sucks. Even still there are things for me to do in the slower times (mostly cataloging parts of the inventory (yeah that's still not done yet)), but when that stuff is done, I'm really gonna be short on things to do. This is a good thing for when school starts up again, because it will mean my schedule will be more flexibile for taking classes, and hopefully I'll be able to take more classes per semester and get done sooner. Whenever I find out what I want to study...

Okay, so maybe saying that there hasn't been much to talk about in the past few months was sort of a lie. Actually, there was only really 1 thing to talk about, I just dragged it on for a few paragraphs.. I guess I tend to do that. Whoops. I think I just really like typing in general. If I could get a job where all I did was type all day.. that might suit me just fine. Well... maybe not, but I still do enjoy typing (keep in mind this is different than writing).

Um. Well, it's midnight, so I guess I'll end this here. Sorry for the long time distance between updates. Usually this is where I promise that I'll update more often, but when I promise that it usually doesn't happen so.......... don't hold your breath. :)