|
antifun
|
read my profile
sign my guestbook
Country: United States
State: Texas
Birthday: 3/4/1979
Gender: Male
Interests: Rambling screeds, pontificating, exploring causality in social relationships, unearthing insincerity, contradictions, and dismissing criticism.
Also, drinking and watching TV.
Expertise: As anyone who knows me will attest, I am an expert at everything.
Message: message me
Member Since:
7/3/2003
|
|
| I wish I had a blog at "hoodstars.com". Milquetoast, thy name is Xanga.
| | |
| Thanks again for everyone who offered help and consultation with the Marc job detail.
Within a week of the previous posting, an old contact from months ago to whom Marc had sent his resume called him up out of the blue and offered him a job doing IT consulting placement. We discussed it and he decided to go for it. Sayonara Copps Food Center, annyong big people job.
So at least for the duration of this miserable winter we are going to be staying in Madison. Hope of escape is not lost, however. More on that tip in a subsequent post.
Switching topics...
We are going to make the trip down for Beer Bike. Our current plan is to fly to Austin, spend a night there, then drive to Houston and do the weekend. I was curious...would any of the Austin contingent be willing to house us on Wednesday night (March 28)? Someone in Houston on Thursday night (March 29)? We are definitely going to get a hotel room for Friday and Saturday nights.
Email or respond here.
And we are still looking for things for him. All the easier as he gets some "real office experience," I suppose. | | |
| So thanks to those that read the post below, and snaps to those who replied.
We (my boyfriend Marc and I) are tired of Madison. Each of us are tired of different things. I'm tired of the smallness, the lily-white-Midwest-ness. Tired of having to travel an hour and a half (at least) just to go anywhere. It's a nice enough place, but it's boring, and if you are beyond college age and before parenting there's not a lot to do in this town.
Marc is tired of not being able to get a job here, thanks to the fact that everyone and their mother seems to want to live here and there's an enormous state university churning out competition for the entry-level jobs he's seeking. Not having attended said university, he's at a further disadvantage.
There are lots of complicating factors, but the foremost need is for Marc to get a decent job that offers enough pay to keep his head afloat above his pile of student loan debt and offers at least some prospect of career development. This would seem to rule out Austin as it has many of the same misfeatures as Madison in the entry-level job market.
I feel, perhaps a tad too confidently, that I can get a job in most any major metropolitan area that would be adequate for at least a short-term engagement. So the key to getting me to move is getting Marc some employment.
He's interested in trying a number of career paths; in this basic order they are
- higher ed, particularly student affairs and admissions work
- public relations and/or advertising, non-pyramid-scheme sales jobs even a possibility
- human resources
If anyone has an "in" with someone who's looking to hire for a college or university for any kind of student affairs work, even resident positions, that would be awesome. I think he'd (and therefore we'd) jump at that in a heartbeat.
But all leads and efforts are appreciated.
As much as it pains me to say I think Houston would be a good general choice...we have been looking at DC as well, if we could find a way to afford to live there, that would make my parents very happy. (They haven't yet offered to put us in the basement of their house, but...) Chicago exists as a nearby possibility as well; a city I'd like to have the experience of living in, even if it's just as cold as Madison. If you can find a job for Marc in Austin or San Antonio then we'd be on the next flight there. (From O'Hare of course, you can't get there from here!)
We need a change. Help us. | | |
| So I think I/we want to move back to Texas.
Tell me:
- why we should
- why we shouldn't
- where we should go
- if you can get us jobs
| | |
| Every time I post a new entry on here, the editor screen is totally different. Perhaps that's the truest sign of my blog slackerdom.
You can post videos now? I still haven't found my digital camera cord to upload photos from my cousin's wedding, and now the people demand video? These internets tubes are just too much. | | |
|
