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If you read yesterday's entry, you learned what it's like dealing with telephone calls from technical staffing firms.  In today's installment of Job Hunting Idiocy, you'll learn what it's like to meet these people in person.

At the conclusion of the phone call described yesterday, I'm assigned an interview slot at 10:00am.  Not bad.  Early enough to leave most of the day free, but late enough for morning rush to be concluded. 

Here's the timeline of events:

If you read yesterday's entry, you learned what it's like dealing with telephone calls from technical staffing firms.  In today's installment of Job Hunting Idiocy, you'll learn what it's like to meet these people in person.

At the conclusion of the phone call described yesterday, I'm assigned an interview slot at 10:00am.  Not bad.  Early enough to leave most of the day free, but late enough for morning rush to be concluded. 

Here's the timeline of events:

Okay, so I'm unemployed.  In order to get my weekly check, I need 5 job contacts per week.  Typically, this isn't hard to do: sit down on Sunday morning and go through Career Builder, Monster, etc. 

A lot of CAD jobs get posted by contract staffing agencies.  I've gotten more than one phone call from an agency recruiter that went something like this:

Agency: "Hello, may I speak to Dito, please?"
Dito: "Speaking."

Okay, so I'm unemployed.  In order to get my weekly check, I need 5 job contacts per week.  Typically, this isn't hard to do: sit down on Sunday morning and go through Career Builder, Monster, etc. 

A lot of CAD jobs get posted by contract staffing agencies.  I've gotten more than one phone call from an agency recruiter that went something like this:

Agency: "Hello, may I speak to Dito, please?"
Dito: "Speaking."

My gamerscore has gone up 700 points since I got laid off last week.  And that includes 2 days out of town. 

I think my new goal should be +1000 by the time next Tuesday (8/7) arrives, exactly 2 weeks out of work.

I think I can do it.  And without blatant achievement whoring, either.  I'm close to finishing The Darkness, then I should go back and finally finish off Rainbow Six Vegas. 

It's good to have goals.  I need something to work on. 

Oh yeah... unemployment paperwork... I really should do that first... really.

My gamerscore has gone up 700 points since I got laid off last week.  And that includes 2 days out of town. 

I think my new goal should be +1000 by the time next Tuesday (8/7) arrives, exactly 2 weeks out of work.

I think I can do it.  And without blatant achievement whoring, either.  I'm close to finishing The Darkness, then I should go back and finally finish off Rainbow Six Vegas. 

It's good to have goals.  I need something to work on. 

Oh yeah... unemployment paperwork... I really should do that first... really.

I'm back from my little jaunt to Chicago.  We had a damned good time. 

Friday: White Castles, the local Irish pub.  Nearly perfect.  Except for the humidity.  Have I only been gone 3 years?  How did I put up with this for the previous 35 years?  God, that was awful.  I typically don't complain about the weather, since it's out of my control, but this was nasty.

I'm back from my little jaunt to Chicago.  We had a damned good time. 

Friday: White Castles, the local Irish pub.  Nearly perfect.  Except for the humidity.  Have I only been gone 3 years?  How did I put up with this for the previous 35 years?  God, that was awful.  I typically don't complain about the weather, since it's out of my control, but this was nasty.

I'm now an unemployed older gamer.  Wheee.  Not really.

I'm now an unemployed older gamer.  Wheee.  Not really.