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Oct. 10th, 2006 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupI applied for four jobs today. SOMEBODY GIVE ME A COOKIE.
I realise that four jobs is not a lot. It only took me about an hour. But the last time I applied to a job was August, because after that I spent most of my time packing all my belongings into boxes and freaking out. Don't underestimate the amount of daily time needed for freaking out. Also, I think that if you spend an hour sleeping or eating french fries or watching postseason baseball it is not comparable to spending an hour writing cover letters. Therefore, I shall institute a new time-measurement system akin to light-years, which will be called Brain Hours. While I did indeed only spend one Real Hour applying to jobs, it was actually four Brain Hours as measured on the Hedd Achë Scale (things always sound more scientific in German). At the bottom of the Hedd Achë scale are things like watching fluffy clouds go by and riding trains and at the top are things like babysitting toddlers, writing cover letters, and building Ikea furniture.
Commentary post-hack: I'd forgotten how awesome the concept of the Brain Hour is.
DePaul University has the most awesome application process ever, because you upload every detail about yourself that ever existed and then once that's done for the rest of your life you only need to click one button to apply to any job there. And St. Xavier University actually asked me what elementary school I went to. It's kind of endearing, and makes me worry about all the stuff that's in my Permanent Record. I DID NOT PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS, OKAY, I'm sure that comes as a shock to those of you who have experienced my misanthropy firsthand.
And Apple One has scored immediate points over all other temp agencies by automatically scheduling me for a face-to-face interview when I send them my info. This "we'll call you within a week" blowoff that the rest of the agencies pull is bullshit. When did temp agencies start being such assholes? When I was eighteen I showed up, took a typing test, and had a job two days later (at a place that makes artificial heart valves -- when the hiring manager said "want to see what we do?" I did not expect him to pull out a shoebox full of heart valves and give me one).
Anyway, now I'm at home waiting for DHL to show up -- my parents decided that instead of getting a TV, which mum wants me to have for News Purposes, they would get me a TV Tuner Card. This is a doohickey (that's a technical term) that plugs into your computer and allows you to watch local broadcast television on your computer monitor. It also has cable jacks so if you do have access to an active cable cord, you can hook on in. It costs about as much for a Tuner card as it does for a 13" TV.
Can technology get much cooler than this?
I realise that four jobs is not a lot. It only took me about an hour. But the last time I applied to a job was August, because after that I spent most of my time packing all my belongings into boxes and freaking out. Don't underestimate the amount of daily time needed for freaking out. Also, I think that if you spend an hour sleeping or eating french fries or watching postseason baseball it is not comparable to spending an hour writing cover letters. Therefore, I shall institute a new time-measurement system akin to light-years, which will be called Brain Hours. While I did indeed only spend one Real Hour applying to jobs, it was actually four Brain Hours as measured on the Hedd Achë Scale (things always sound more scientific in German). At the bottom of the Hedd Achë scale are things like watching fluffy clouds go by and riding trains and at the top are things like babysitting toddlers, writing cover letters, and building Ikea furniture.
Commentary post-hack: I'd forgotten how awesome the concept of the Brain Hour is.
DePaul University has the most awesome application process ever, because you upload every detail about yourself that ever existed and then once that's done for the rest of your life you only need to click one button to apply to any job there. And St. Xavier University actually asked me what elementary school I went to. It's kind of endearing, and makes me worry about all the stuff that's in my Permanent Record. I DID NOT PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS, OKAY, I'm sure that comes as a shock to those of you who have experienced my misanthropy firsthand.
And Apple One has scored immediate points over all other temp agencies by automatically scheduling me for a face-to-face interview when I send them my info. This "we'll call you within a week" blowoff that the rest of the agencies pull is bullshit. When did temp agencies start being such assholes? When I was eighteen I showed up, took a typing test, and had a job two days later (at a place that makes artificial heart valves -- when the hiring manager said "want to see what we do?" I did not expect him to pull out a shoebox full of heart valves and give me one).
Anyway, now I'm at home waiting for DHL to show up -- my parents decided that instead of getting a TV, which mum wants me to have for News Purposes, they would get me a TV Tuner Card. This is a doohickey (that's a technical term) that plugs into your computer and allows you to watch local broadcast television on your computer monitor. It also has cable jacks so if you do have access to an active cable cord, you can hook on in. It costs about as much for a Tuner card as it does for a 13" TV.
Can technology get much cooler than this?
