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Aug. 22nd, 2003 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI called Manpower, the temp staffing agency, today since I have been trying for two weeks to take their placement tests. Upon inquiring about said tests, I was told 'Yeah, we're still down on that. Try calling Tuesday.' Maybe it's just me, but these people don't seem like they're quite on the ball, as it were.
In other news, The weekend ahead ought to be really, really nice. Andrea shows up here today at midnight (Woohoo! *pounce*). Tomorrow we go with my family to vist my extended family. It'll be great to introduce her to my grandparents and others. Sunday should be some nice free time which we'll use to visit the (in)famous seven mile fair once more, as well as possibly some other thrift stores. Then, on Monday, we'll hopefully have another mostly free day and then go south to get together with Chicagoland friends for a birthdayish sort of thing. If there's anything positive about being unemployed, it's not having to go to work. *smile*
I've also, at Andrea's suggestion, been working on a resumè. I felt strange about it at first since I don't honestly have much schooling or training to put on it, and I've only worked at two places in my life. I think though, that what I've put together isn't too bad. I went into a lot of my work with the theatre on it too, phrasing my tasks there in wonderfully sophisticated and important sounding ways. Perhaps the two of us can clean it up and make it into something actually useful.
Speaking of schooling, I'm thinking about it again. I've been fretting over plans for the eventuality of apprenticeship with the electrician's union not working out. Of course I'll find a job somewhere, but I worried a lot about what I'd do from that point. I could work in a gas station all my life, but it wouldn't be my first choice. I would love to go back to school, but I couldn't decide what I wanted to do there. Lately I've been considering English. I've always loved the written word. I've read voraciously since I was very young and I deeply appreciate the beauty of a well written sentence, paragraph, or narrative. I have what sometimes seems like an instinctual sense of a good deal of English grammar and mechanics. When I first went to UW Parkside, I tested out of all of the required English classes. So what did I try to go into? Comp-sci. Heh. I think maybe I want to save up some money and try English. Maybe it's all the stuff in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
grammar_whores I've been reading. *grin* I'd enjoy being a proof-reader. I think I'd really enjoy being an editor too. Definitely something to think about.
Dear one, if you're checking this before you leave work, I wish you a safe journey. If you want to give me a call when you leave, that'd be cool. *licks*
In other news, The weekend ahead ought to be really, really nice. Andrea shows up here today at midnight (Woohoo! *pounce*). Tomorrow we go with my family to vist my extended family. It'll be great to introduce her to my grandparents and others. Sunday should be some nice free time which we'll use to visit the (in)famous seven mile fair once more, as well as possibly some other thrift stores. Then, on Monday, we'll hopefully have another mostly free day and then go south to get together with Chicagoland friends for a birthdayish sort of thing. If there's anything positive about being unemployed, it's not having to go to work. *smile*
I've also, at Andrea's suggestion, been working on a resumè. I felt strange about it at first since I don't honestly have much schooling or training to put on it, and I've only worked at two places in my life. I think though, that what I've put together isn't too bad. I went into a lot of my work with the theatre on it too, phrasing my tasks there in wonderfully sophisticated and important sounding ways. Perhaps the two of us can clean it up and make it into something actually useful.
Speaking of schooling, I'm thinking about it again. I've been fretting over plans for the eventuality of apprenticeship with the electrician's union not working out. Of course I'll find a job somewhere, but I worried a lot about what I'd do from that point. I could work in a gas station all my life, but it wouldn't be my first choice. I would love to go back to school, but I couldn't decide what I wanted to do there. Lately I've been considering English. I've always loved the written word. I've read voraciously since I was very young and I deeply appreciate the beauty of a well written sentence, paragraph, or narrative. I have what sometimes seems like an instinctual sense of a good deal of English grammar and mechanics. When I first went to UW Parkside, I tested out of all of the required English classes. So what did I try to go into? Comp-sci. Heh. I think maybe I want to save up some money and try English. Maybe it's all the stuff in
grammar_whores I've been reading. *grin* I'd enjoy being a proof-reader. I think I'd really enjoy being an editor too. Definitely something to think about.Dear one, if you're checking this before you leave work, I wish you a safe journey. If you want to give me a call when you leave, that'd be cool. *licks*
