Thanks for the birthday wishes, all. I'll actually get around to celebrating it when I have a housewarming, which at this point, might be january. I could deal with that. End of the year is a hard time to be on the job market. I have the feeling that if something doesn't happen in the next two weeks, I'm going to retreat back to Texas for the month with some contract projects and come back when companies perk back up.
Not to say things have been dead. I'm actually starting to turn down some interviews, realizing they're just not what I'm looking for. I have one company who hasn't even requested an interview, they just put me to work redesigning their UI (paid) as a trial. I'm actually having a blast with that project. Yesterday, I met with a small and awesome design firm in Culver looking for a technical project manager. I met with all three principals separately. The glass windows around their swank conference room had shopping lists written in dry-erase marker on one and "Interwub key: xxxxxxxxx" on the other. I like them. If hired, I would make employee #6. yay.
Monday brings an interview that's been in the works since August. AUGUST. argh. They keep pushing it back and adding more important people to the panel that's interviewing me. I'm still amused that they won't call it an interview, it's a "meeting." At first I thought they were blowing me off, but I think they might be serious. I have no clue what to wear. Anyone in the film industry, please, please help a geek out and give a little advice to the fashion clueless.
And in the meantime, I'm working on a project to contribute some new wordpress and drupal templates to the community and magically get paid to do so. (score!) I'm doing content management system consulting for about 5 different clients. It's getting hectic. I've had at least one conference call a day for a while now.
Um, so that's the news. Sorry I missed Price is Right, I hear it was awesome.
Cheers!
-C
Not to say things have been dead. I'm actually starting to turn down some interviews, realizing they're just not what I'm looking for. I have one company who hasn't even requested an interview, they just put me to work redesigning their UI (paid) as a trial. I'm actually having a blast with that project. Yesterday, I met with a small and awesome design firm in Culver looking for a technical project manager. I met with all three principals separately. The glass windows around their swank conference room had shopping lists written in dry-erase marker on one and "Interwub key: xxxxxxxxx" on the other. I like them. If hired, I would make employee #6. yay.
Monday brings an interview that's been in the works since August. AUGUST. argh. They keep pushing it back and adding more important people to the panel that's interviewing me. I'm still amused that they won't call it an interview, it's a "meeting." At first I thought they were blowing me off, but I think they might be serious. I have no clue what to wear. Anyone in the film industry, please, please help a geek out and give a little advice to the fashion clueless.
And in the meantime, I'm working on a project to contribute some new wordpress and drupal templates to the community and magically get paid to do so. (score!) I'm doing content management system consulting for about 5 different clients. It's getting hectic. I've had at least one conference call a day for a while now.
Um, so that's the news. Sorry I missed Price is Right, I hear it was awesome.
Cheers!
-C
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