Oct. 2 Job: I emailed my resume to Hallmark today. I'll pass it out to them in person too. I don't know, but I'm going into my 5th month working at the Soup place, and I'm getting the itch. Sure I was working there at first to bide my time looking for an office job to please my parents, and now I really like this place. I guess I want to try something new, yet still work at the Soup place on Sat like I did with the bank.
The Soup place is a good job, and I'm looking for another job while I'm there to keep things interesting. I have also been having these dreams that I'm still working at the bank. I don't regret working there or quitting. To prove that I love Ipsos, the whole 7 months that I was working there, I never once looked for another job. While at Leger, I started looking for a job 3 months into it.
While at Treats, I did do a few job interviews while there, but I wasn't looking for a job aggressively. That case was different because prior to it I had 5 jobs in the past 3 months, and I wanted to finally stick with a job and work there for the rest of the summer.
Oct. 3 Job resolutions: This is an old article from Jan. 2007, on how to get a job. I found it on Yahoo. This shall inspire me and all people to look for a better job.
Follow Through on Your Job Resolutions
Carla-Krystin Andrade
The New Year brings a flurry of activity in the job market. It's also the time to get your job search into high gear so that you can make the most of these new opportunities. So, dust off your resume and use these four steps to get your job search off to a good start.
Clear Your Workspace
Before you try to tackle your job search, take a quick look around you. Are you surrounded by clutter? Excessive clutter can add to the sense of confusion that often plagues job hunters. So clear enough space to be able to sit and compose your thoughts. If necessary, take yourself out to a clean, quiet spot, such as your local library.
Focus Your Search
If you don't know where you are headed, you can waste a lot of time and energy on unimportant tasks. Or worse, you can end up drifting aimlessly and doing nothing at all. You can prevent this from happening to you by using goals to guide your job search. Now we're not talking about New Year's resolutions that you discard within a month. Goals that are vaguely worded, or overly ambitious, are doomed to failure as soon as you write them. Set a goal for your job search as a whole. Then set smaller goals that you can work on each day of your job search. Make sure that your goals are within your reach by asking yourself if they are:
Specific and measurable
Within your power to achieve
Realistic
Timely
Positive
Gratifying to you.
For example, "Email resumes to 15 companies by the end of the day" is an achievable goal, based on these standards. On the other hand, "Stop blowing interview questions" is not.
Choose a Starting Point
It's natural to feel overwhelmed when you have dozens of tasks to work on. Yet, this can also happen when you're just starting out and aren't certain where to begin. Fight the urge to either admit defeat or tackle all areas at once. Begin by selecting a single area of your job search as a starting point. It's more effective to start with smaller tasks that are stepping stones to larger tasks. Here are some examples:
Update your resume
Find new job leads in a single area
Update and prioritize your list of contacts
Make a list of interview questions to practice
Get the Ball Rolling
Don't be surprised if you find it hard to get started on job search tasks or keep making excuses to take breaks. Now is the time to focus on taking action -- any action -- rather than on completing a task perfectly. Build your sense of success by completing one daily goal every day. You'll soon find that your motivation increases and your job search gains momentum. Before you know it, you'll be on your way to job search success.
Since 1989, Dr. Carla-Krystin Andrade has helped job hunters in North America, Europe, and Asia win jobs and achieve their career goals through her books and seminars. Her latest books are "How to Win the Job Search Game" and "Kick Start Your Job Search, Now! How to Outperform Your Competition and Win the Job You Want."
Oct. 3 Movie: I just saw this fun movie called The Initiation of Sarah. It stars Mika Boormen as Sarah and Summer Glau as her sister Lindsay. I really liked it. S and L go to college and rush a sorority. One sorority is full of evil withches who wants S who is known as "The One." They need her blood so they could thrive on the power. There is a good sorority headed by the college professor Dr. Hunter.
Dr. H helps S control her power. S had attempted to commit suicide before she went to college. It also stars Tessa Thompson who was on Veronica Mars and the short- lived summer show Hidden Palms. It was a very well- written story. It's a remake of the movie from 1978. This had interesting special effects, it was funny, entertaining. I recommend you watch it.
I did see Lara Croft: Cradle of Life last week. I saw a bit of it awhile ago, but this time I saw the whole movie. This movie is average. I'm interested in action, but I wasn't really interested in the story. I can't really remember the first movie though I did see it on TV some years ago.
Writing: As usual I watch Kaya, or at least have it on in the background as I'm on the computer. This show is about successful music artists in the industry, just like Instant Star and the old comedy My Guide to Becoming a Rockstar. That show came out in 2002, and was on Muchmusic. It was funny. It starred Oliver Hudson, Kate Hudson's little brother. After that show he went on to the show called The Mountain which got cancelled quickly.
It brings back memories of 2001 when I wrote a story about a successful rock band called Obliteration. I think it finally got itself deleted by 2004. It was originally inspired by watching Making the Band and O-town, the days when I was obsessed with them. Yeah, laugh all you want. That show was on every week, and I had to watch it because it was unintentionally funny. I became so obessesd I had to buy the cd, then the YM magazine with them on the cover, and then spend $80 on concert tickets when I read they were coming to E-town.
My sister waited in line, and I paid for the 2 tickets ($40 each.) Then the show got cancelled, and I got into the British boy band Blue which are way better. lol. My script was about a band with 2 girls and 2 guys. The show was kind of like a parody of what if Making the Band meets The Blair Witch Project. The band is being stalked and they are chased around the woods.
Overall, it wasn't really that good. That was the pilot. There was an ep where one of the members gets into legal trouble, and another who is told he will be successful as a solo artist and he has to make the decision if he will leave the band. That last idea was used in Becoming a Rockstar as the season finale, but I want to say I thought of that first before I saw Rockstar. 2gether was a good comedy making fun of boy bands altogether.
Fictional shows about the music industry has been done, so it's not original. I haven't written about that band in 4 yrs, and don't plan to get back to that. There are so many reality shows about making music groups already like:
MtB season 1: O-town
MtB season 2: Missy Elliot makes a group.
MtB season 3: Diddy makes a girl group Danity Kane.
MtB season 4: Diddy makes a guy group Day 26 and solo artist Donnie Klang.
MtB season 4 (2nd season): Danity Kane, Day 26, Donnie Klang tour together.
Top Pop Group: Giving $100 000 to the pop group voted in by the viewers.
Throw in American Idol, Canadian Idol, Popstars, Pussycat Dolls: The Search for the Next Doll, Pussycat Dolls: Girlicious, Rock the Cradle.
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