addicted

I'm officially addicted to job searching. It's 2:40 AM and I work at 8 AM and I can't stop -- so I came here. Blogger is my anti-drug. I realized that this is getting me nowhere until I update my resume. Currently, I have 12 tabs open of the different job descriptions for things I wan't to apply for. Pointless? Yes. I don't see my resume getting updated in the next few days & I'm not going to leave all these open for two weeks.

The locations of these jobs are kind of comical. While I've never watched the TV show Jersey Shore, apparently it's enough to make me avoid jobs in Jersey. That stupid show is the first thing I thought of every time I saw a job in New Jersey -- and then I didn't investigate further. Some of the jobs I considered are in New City, NY (is that a typo or is that for real??), Santa Clara, CA, Fort Lauderdale, FL, and (the last one is the best) Woonsocket, RI. Hahaha what?! Is that real?

Tonight at the cigar lounge I had a conversation with a new customer about all of this, and he gave me some good advice, or at least insight. He was a computer science major (or something of the sort) from Alabama (I and the 2 Florida grads at the bar booed him upon learning this, of course). He said he interviewed at 11 places and some of the interviews meant the companies flew him out to them. This sounds fun AND solves one of those problems from the previous post. I'm wondering if that's typical to all fields or not. He ended up taking a job in Austin with HP as a software engineer after just a series of phone interviews -- none in person. Fun fact: they actually called to make him an offer as he was walking into the stadium for the UT-Bama National Championship game.

They made him an offer. I hadn't really been thinking of things that way. I like the idea of someone making me an offer, although I might be in danger of jumping the gun. I don't know if it's just because I'm (generally) low-maintenance, but I've always been the type of person that doesn't like to shop around. Shopping for my first car with my dad -- the first one I test drove was the car I wanted (it wasn't, it sucked, I think it was a Chevy Cavalier? But it would have been just fine and saved me time spent shopping). Shopping for apartments with my boyfriend -- the first one, $850/mo. one bedroom in an inconvenient location. That was it. Put down a deposit and everything. I suppose I should commit to it here, in writing, that I'll never accept an offer right after it's given. It only seems logical to take a couple of days to think it over, see if anything better happens to come in, etc. Receiving an offer seems flattering though, and its even harder to turn someone down after they've given you a compliment.

Anyways, the customer also said he got his job offer 6 months before he graduated (!!!!). That is.... like, now. Actually, that was 2 months ago. :/

It's frustrating already because the most interesting jobs obviously want you to have some specific work experience. I feel like I shouldn't apply for these jobs because it makes me look like I can't read when they notice I don't have the experience they're looking for, but I know I should anyways. And I probably will. I feel like I could talk my way through, or learn anything I needed to. For example HTML. I know my basics, but anything else I need to figure out I can find with a Google search. Besides, I'm sure these jobs wouldn't just throw you in and let you figure out how to do everything because it would be a detriment to their business. On the job training is probably going to be necessary in almost every case.

On a completely different note, I wanted to make this post from my new iPhone 4 earlier and wondered why there wasn't a Blogger app. I'm pretty sure I could figure that out for you, by the way Blogger.