Employment
August 8
If you’ve been reading The August then you know that we may have a change coming soon to our family. If you haven’t been, then I’ll recap. Things are going odd at Elaine’s job and she’d really rather be home with Monkey than dealing with that stress and confusion. So, in the interest of making that happen, I’m looking for gainful employment, AKA a job.
Of course, I haven’t had a job in quite some time. My last was Art Director/Page Layout/Copy Editor for Greater Tulsa Reporter Newspapers and that was before we moved here, of course. So I’m feeling a bit rusty, to say the least.
I haven’t really found much around here, yet. A couple of studios that may or may not be hiring; a national company that’s looking for a Graphic Designer, which isn’t exactly my bag of tea, but I could probably pull it off; and that’s about it. Well, I got a piece of reader mail the other day offering me a piecemeal job making templates, but I think I’ll pass on that. Besides, the guy that offered used a Hotmail address and we all know how professional that looks.
Why can’t I get a job doing Ruby on Rails or something equally fun? I probably could if we moved, but a three-month-old baby isn’t something I want to try and pack a house with. That sounds funny but you know what I mean. And I’d hate to move somewhere that I know has Rails jobs and then not be able to get one ’cause I don’t have exhaustive experience. Of course, I’m stuck in that designer spiral of not having experience, so I can’t get a job with which to get said experience. It’s a bitch of a paradox.
Anyway, no real point to this post, just wanted to get the word out. Oh, and I’m going to try to get a link-blog set up a la Funkaoshi, but that may be awhile coming.