Hearing something along the grapevine generally leaves you quoting Reservoir Dogs and thinking to yourself that just because you heard it somewhere doesn't necessarily making it fucking so...
But when all of your friends in human resources and all of your recruiters are essentially telling you that you won't hear hide nor hair about a job until the first of the year at the earliest - and with New Year's falling on a Thursday, it is more likely not till Monday the 5th - you tend to start believing.
I am still applying for jobs as much as possible, but now I'm struggling with a resume that is so geared towards operations and project management that I'm trying to tear it all down to a level that makes me look like the copywriter and marketing communications type that I want to be. If I get into another restaurant that will be it for at least another 4 years for me, unless I can somehow make my shattered resume sing to someone willing to look past the "job hopping for dollars" i did early in my career and that I've done since moving to Charlotte.
Good news, though, is I've been using a program called Writer's Dreamkit to sort of get me re-focused around my novel and have finally got an outline and character sketches written out. I filled in a lot of my gaps and had to do the hard thinking about what it all means. I was for the longest time taking the "stephen king" approach of finding my writers and letting them tell the story, and I'm still doing that to a degree, but in a much more systematic and ... functional way. I'm the type that has to see the big picture and have a framework in which to begin. The story doesn't have to stay in that framework, just has to...loosely attach itself at some key points in order that my OCD-tendencies have some order around which to curl themselves. Let the chaos-tic creative writing monkeys do their thing while the order is subdued essentially.
Sleeping with my breathing machine again, so the sense of disconnect isn't as bad as it was for the last few days. Reality doesn't seem to have a five foot thick fog around it like it did last week. It'll take a couple days to really settle down into it, but in the meantime, things seem to be looking ... not so "meh."
But when all of your friends in human resources and all of your recruiters are essentially telling you that you won't hear hide nor hair about a job until the first of the year at the earliest - and with New Year's falling on a Thursday, it is more likely not till Monday the 5th - you tend to start believing.
I am still applying for jobs as much as possible, but now I'm struggling with a resume that is so geared towards operations and project management that I'm trying to tear it all down to a level that makes me look like the copywriter and marketing communications type that I want to be. If I get into another restaurant that will be it for at least another 4 years for me, unless I can somehow make my shattered resume sing to someone willing to look past the "job hopping for dollars" i did early in my career and that I've done since moving to Charlotte.
Good news, though, is I've been using a program called Writer's Dreamkit to sort of get me re-focused around my novel and have finally got an outline and character sketches written out. I filled in a lot of my gaps and had to do the hard thinking about what it all means. I was for the longest time taking the "stephen king" approach of finding my writers and letting them tell the story, and I'm still doing that to a degree, but in a much more systematic and ... functional way. I'm the type that has to see the big picture and have a framework in which to begin. The story doesn't have to stay in that framework, just has to...loosely attach itself at some key points in order that my OCD-tendencies have some order around which to curl themselves. Let the chaos-tic creative writing monkeys do their thing while the order is subdued essentially.
Sleeping with my breathing machine again, so the sense of disconnect isn't as bad as it was for the last few days. Reality doesn't seem to have a five foot thick fog around it like it did last week. It'll take a couple days to really settle down into it, but in the meantime, things seem to be looking ... not so "meh."