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Interview

After one and a half days of (f)unemployment i was well and truly ready to get back into the workforce and was happy to meet with a recruiter for a face to face interview. My past chagrin with recruiters is no secret. One of my more recent conversations involved the recruiter saying "how am i supposed to place you in a role which you have no experience for?" Essentially, i see it as their job to find me a job. Unfortunately, they are generally looking for the quickest resolution and not the best fit. There is definitely a vested interest as they get paid if get paid. There is no happiness-ometer, no philanthropy. Square pegs will not be tolerated if it is a round hole. Perhaps this whole issue has something to do with the fact that most recruiters are English folk on work and holiday visas hoping for a large commission to pay for their next drug/booze fueled binge on the Barrier Reef? I met a young woman who gave me some forms and left me for fifteen minutes to complete t...
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The First Days

August 24th was a momentous occasion. My first day of unemployment since when i was living in San Jose in 2013. There were a couple of parallels there too. I slept in hopelessly, watched baseball on tv and bought chocolates for Laura when she got home. Which had disappeared by the time she got home. It was also seemingly the first run i have gone for since 2013. Every direction I went was uphill, into the wind, somehow. Ugh. Although i was enjoying being able to relax, i was not as organized as i could have been for the next step. It was inevitable that i would reignite my hated relationship with recruiters and another, less common pet hate - having to format resumes on a MacBook Pro so it would always be compatible. How is that even a thing? It was a windy, sunny day in Darlinghurst and i hastily made the bed and cleaned the kitchen to stay in Laura's good books before heading for a hair cut and lunch. This was after my run so i assumed i deserved it and hobbled up the...
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