i am taking a leap of faith and applying for a job with an international reproductive rights organization. essentially, i would be a grant writer. i have not written anything in a long time and they are asking for a writing sample of my editorial skills. do you guys have anything i can edit? you are welcomed to block out any personal identifying information. if you have anything i can edit, please email it to me at izzylin@hotmail.com. thanks!
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
And what kind of a low life takes on a tutoring job and then doesn't show??!! I'll bet it's not really too late to find a tutor. But you need to do what you are comfortable with. I understand that personalities will enter into this and it might be better to do without.
I'm applying for a new part time position in another department. It's the same hours, just a floor up from where I am now. We'll see how it goes, but I had to at least give it a shot.
I've given my resume and cover letter to a resume expert to look at, and plan to walk it up to our HR people on Monday. I figure I've got nothing to lose, and actually have lots of experience in this other department (which has lots of my hobby/interests in it). If I get it, I will at least be away from my supervisor, who really drives me nuts. (But it still isn't out of the library, but that won't happen for a few years yet.)
On the up side, I have three weeks left until Christmas break from school. I still need to pull at least Cs on all of my remaining tests/finals to be comfortably at C grades for the semester.
I'm firing my calculus tutor for being a double no show in the last two weeks. I'm gonna wing it for the rest of the semester, as it's gonna be nearly impossible to find a tutor at this point.
Life is like a roller coaster, with lots of ups and downs, but the curves, spirals, loops and corkscrews are what make life interesting.
Originally posted by p7eggyc: I got all the way down there and the girl says "Oh, you didn't need the cash. It's a direct bill to Expedia." I would've strangled her but I was completely whipped by this point and just wanted to climb into bed so I let her live. Peg
OMG-LMAO!!!! Not laughing that you went through all that trouble but I have sooo been there and reading this made me laugh out loud.
I am glad to hear the interview went well and I hope you hear back from them soon.
Jill
Summer Challenge Goals: 1) Walk 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week 2) Plan weekly menus
Just MY luck, I would have had the address and phone number of the interview location in my purse, so I would have been SOL! LOL I have gone to work without my purse a few times and that made me nervous...I can imagine it would be REALLY unsettling to drive to another city and realize you didn't have it! Good thing you don't have to pay any tolls on the way...tho at least that would have made you realize sooner that you didn't have your purse!
Good luck with moving on to the next step of the interview process!
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Thanks all! I think it went really well. I left with the distinct impression that they intended to send me on to the client for an interview. The client liason indicated that he thought the company might be closed this week for the holiday so not to be surprised if I didn't hear anything until next week. I guess the interview process is 1/2 a day...ugh...but that's ok. I think this would be a really good oppty for me and worth it to figure out if it really is a good fit.
Last night was just a comedy of errors though. Can you believe I walked out of my house without my purse??! I got all the way down to Denver and then realized it. I called the hotel and she said she had to see the credit card or I had to pay cash. So I called my Dad and went and got his debit card and went and got him some groceries and the cash, went back to his house and proceeded down to the other end of town. In the meantime, I tried to cancel the reservation but had booked through Expedia and they wouldn't let me cancel w/o paying so I just went (this involved a really long call with really bad reception and more minutes of a scratchy Vivaldi 4 Seasons than I ever want to hear again). I got all the way down there and the girl says "Oh, you didn't need the cash. It's a direct bill to Expedia." I would've strangled her but I was completely whipped by this point and just wanted to climb into bed so I let her live. I swear my brain was permanently damaged when my Mom was sick. I have been such a ditz!
Thanks for the good vibes and keep 'em coming. A new job for the new year may be just what I need!
I got a call this afternoon regarding a position I applied for last week. It seems to be a particularly good fit for my experience and where I'd like to go. First step is a meeting with the recruiter in South Denver. I'm leaving in a few to go check into a hotel down there because the meeting is at 8am so I would just have to leave crazy early to be assured to be there on time (all the way on the other side of Denver). I'm just so glad to get an in-person interview. Haven't had one since February, not that I've been applying all that time but I haven't fared well on these phone interviews everyone seems to want.
Anyway, all good vibes that you can send to me would be deeply appreciated. I can't tell you what it would mean for me to start the new year with a new job.
me too, if you need another set of eyes. izzylin@hotmail.com
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
