When I'm back to work -
When I get up, shower, leave -
The dog will be sad.
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Petroglyph from Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
Gift card song - new holiday classic!
The Journal of Unemployment Studies in paperback
The Chiffons - One Fine Day
Two spirits, two people
Petroglyph from Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
People met so far
- Areas most represented:
- Arts Folks: 20
- Education Folks: 35
- IT Folks: 15
- Food Folks: 14
- Not For Profit Folks: 48
- Former Colleagues: 18
- HR/Recruiting Folks: 19
- Finance/Accounting Folks: 14
- People I didn't know before I started job hunting: 155
- Total people "met with" as of May 11, 2010: 207
Interviews, interviewers, why it didn't work out...
- Interviews that were related to actual jobs (not purely informational): 31
- Jobs represented by those interviews: 15
- Jobs filled by internal candidates: 2
- Jobs where they said the other finalist had more experience working with volunteers: 1
- Jobs where they said the other finalist was actually the wife of one of the interviewing panel: 1
- Jobs (same place!!) where they said the other finalist was friends with the hiring manager's new boyfriend: 1
- Jobs where they said I was overqualified: 3
- Jobs where they just said, "We had a lot of good candidates": 1
- Jobs they decided not to fill: 1
- Jobs they might open up sometime later this year, or next year, if they get the money, get the grant, get the business... or maybe not: 3
- Jobs I didn't get because on closer inspection, I withdrew: 3
Sorted books - a whole new pastime
FENG, TANG, DANG, WING
Networking Group Haiku:
Unemployed former
Execs must advise me, yet:
They too have no job.
Unemployed former
Execs must advise me, yet:
They too have no job.
Speaking of which...
Et tu, Mom haiku:
I advise daughter
On how to job hunt, and yet
I too have no job.
I advise daughter
On how to job hunt, and yet
I too have no job.
Sauvie Island bridge
Great Music from the Nashville trip
Perspective haiku
Friends and loved ones ill-
Cancer, mental issues, age.
Me? No job. So what?
Cancer, mental issues, age.
Me? No job. So what?
Schoolkids on the Pioneer Courthouse Square Fountain
Things I longed to do when I was employed and didn't have time (and how many times I've done them)
- Plays on a whim: rush tickets in Ashland and at PCPA: 4
- Stay in the lodge at the Oregon Caves: 1
- Food carts: maybe a dozen times?
- Sit on the Pioneer Square Fountain blocks, and watch schoolkids on a field trip playing on the steps: 1
- Have a bowl of minestrone at Nick's in McMinnville: 1
- Walk Willamette Park to the Sellwood Bridge: 1
- Pioneer Cemetery over by Central Catholic: 2
- Check out the Hughes Flying Boat (aka the Spruce Goose): 1
- Crystal Springs: 4
- Bishop's Close: 3
- Take a class in something cool at PSU: 3
- Go to Eugene, visit friends, do the 5th Street Market, eat at Marche: 2
- Sauvie Island: 2
- Walk the dog down the river below the Sellwood Bridge: 1
- Drive via Yamhill Valley to Oregon Aquarium in Newport: 1
- See Yosemite, Death Valley, Zion, Bryce,
- Grand Staircase, Capitol Reef, Arches, Mesa Verde: 1 apiece
- Go to free noon Chamber Music Northwest rehearsals at Reed: 2
- Walk the Esplanade: 3
- Bicycle around Ladd's Addition on a hot day and smell the roses: 2
Skate
What I Meant to Say Was...
Do-over haiku:
Smart woman asks me:
What would you do, working here?...
That's my job, she says.
Smart woman asks me:
What would you do, working here?...
That's my job, she says.
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Celia, As a haiku poet, you are in good company. Have you heard about Haiku Herman? See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8577506.stm
ReplyDeleteI heard him reciting haiku in Flemish on NPR the other day.
Oooh, I like being in his company! Thanks for the link!
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