Work et al
Work is fine. As always there’s lots of it. I’m breaking in the new guy. I’m going to have him follow me around on all my tasks for the next few months. He picks things up quickly, so I don’ t think he’ll require a lot of supervision. He could actually help decrease my workload! You know how sometimes you get some kind of labor-saving device that doesn’t end up saving you anything at all? He’s not like that at all.
There’s a job advertised at work called “Manager of Web Development” and I want it. The position would have a team of about five developers reporting to him and he would have the responsibility for making sure all of the company’s web system were developed according to our standards. I’ve supported most of the systems they work on for the last three years. I know all of the applications they use. I must confess that I don’t know much java, but frankly, that’s really much more their job than mine. I read though the requirements and I think I’m really well suited to the job. But there’s a lot of competition. The guy who is running the team now would be a good choice for them to hire — I wouldn’t feel too bad about losing to him. There are at lest two other people applying that I know of, who I think wouldn’t be as good for the job as me.
I’m hoping that by being exceptionally well prepared I can impress the interviewer. But as more time goes by I start to question myself more and more. That’s why I have to psych myself up on the bike every night. Its funny, really! I almost do Stuart-Smalley-style self affirmations. Its not as hokey as that, but I make sure I tell myself positive and supportive things about myself and my skills. I keep hoping that the more I say them the more confident I will be when it comes time to talk about myself during the interview.
The interview should be sometime this week or possibly next. I’m really hoping it comes a lot sooner rather than later because it might impact my vaction (8/11 - 8/20),
I really want this job.
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was in the shop getting its wires straightened out the boys at Pine Banks must have not connected something correctly because ever since then I haven’t been able to get any ventilation out of the main cabin vents. So I drove my bike down to the repair shop, dropped the car off and then biked home. I rode the bike downtown and ran some erands afterwards. I know I got a lot of other stuff done. In the morning after I had some coffee, read some newspaper, fed the kids, myself and the guinnea pig I thought I would clean the pig’s cage. Afterwards I emptied the dishwasher, put the dirty things away and wiped the table. I thought it was time for a break. That’s when I saw it was only EIGHT O’CLOCK in the morning! It turned in to a long, but very productive day. We don’t come across those very often.