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January 24, 2007
Sea World
Over Thanksgiving weekend, I took a trip to San Diego and hung out at Sea World. I took a ton of pictures and have finally gotten around to uploading them all. You can check them out in my gallery.
I got to pet a dolphin.
This weekend I will be taking another trip down to San Diego to hang out at the zoo. Hopefully it won't take me as long to upload the pictures.
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January 22, 2007
In good company
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January 11, 2007
Employment Update
I know I have been slacking on updating this, but I just haven't been in the mood to write about all the crap that went on.
Last time you hear from me, I had just gotten a job with Fonality.com.
That only lasted about 7 weeks. I couldn't take the long hours and the long commute. The kicker is that about two weeks before they botted me out the door, they gave me the option of taking a '30 day Exit Strategy' in which I would hang onto my current position for 30 days while I looked for a new one. I was going to take it until they talked me out of it with promises of working from home a few days a week in the near future.
Needless to say I was pissed when I was fired two weeks later.
Let me tell you, job hunting during the holidays sucks! Everyone is draggin their feet until after the new year.
By Christmas time, throught the recruiter that got me the last job, I had three possibilities - two web hosting companies and a computer forensics company.
I had just one interview with one of the web hosting companies and they were reluctant to make a decision for even the second round interviews. I had a good first and an OK second interview with the other webhosting company.
The computer forensics company did the first round over that phone and apparently I was ranked 2nd and they wanted to bring me in for the second round. The problem was that they weren't doing second round interviews until after the first of the year.
The New Year finally came and I still hadn't heard any definite answers and I only had enough savings for one more month's rent.
Anyway, to make a long story longer, the first webhosting company fell through, but the second one wanted to make me an offer. The stipulation was that I had to cancel my second round interview with the computer forensics company.
The offer was decent (the same amount as Fonality), it seemed like a cool company, and I really needed the money.
So, I finally have a job. It's with Broadcaster.com which is a division of Alchemy Communications.
It's my first week and I am still trying to get used to having to actually wake up at a certain time and be somewhere doing stuff all day, but it's good to be back into some sort of routine.
In the last 6 months of 2006, I worked only 7 weeks. Damn. That sucks.
Anyway, that's what has been going on with me on the job front.
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