Chris

I'm considering, job-relatedly, getting a certification or two.  Ideally, I'd put a level in each of the major things that I tend to do, like basic accounting or SQL Server stuff or whatever.  I'd also get some sort of basics book, or course, or individual tutoring, in other IT-related things such as networking, building a computer, and so forth.

This way, I'd have a fairly wide base of things to pull from when next I go job-shopping.

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.  Number of comments so far:

Today, further:

* I bought an ice pack.  I've been doing transcription stuff for rosefox, and it took me a day or two to realise that hey, my laptop != good, and my desktop == fantastic.  (I need to see if a keyboard with a USB-also plug can plug into a laptop and be useful.  That would be so win.)  I am icing my arm now, as it's lightly sore due to typing and also carrying heavy-ass groceries home.  I moved to my desktop, I got an ice pack, I took two ibuprofen to be clear, and I have wispy ideas of typing-to-resting ratios dancing in my head.  Nice.

* I bought banana chips, Just Cuz.

* I applied to ten jobs today, to make up for my week of hell when I could barely get out of bed.  (Fuck you too, the pill.)  And I have four more to apply to tomorrow, even before I job-shop.  And I didn't throw up.

* I walked nearly three miles today, just cuz.

* I hung my picture.  I am now much more pleased with my room, messy as it still kind of is.

* I bought pretty nail polish for like $1.

I'm unemployed.

I can go to the coast whenever I want.

I knew that!

I'm currently unemployed, which is no rational being's idea of fun.  (Relief perhaps, but not fun.)  I use Mozilla Thunderbird for both my formal email address and an RSS aggregator.  In the RSS section, I subscribe to various Craigslist job categories, like admin stuff, technical support stuff, and so forth.

One job posting came into the trade section, asking if I was tired of long and boring hours at the office.  I hadn't thought of it before… rather, I'd thought quite a lot about how boring office work can be, but I hadn't seriously considered doing anything else with my time.  I'm used to doing officework – have done so since I was 16, or thereabouts – so that's what I'm "good" at.

Now, of course, I am all kinds of curious about working with my hands.  I have no strong handiwork background, though I'm willing and able to heft things about, so I figured I'd not be able to get into it.  Apparently, this is not entirely true, even beyond correcting for my general pessimism.  There's a local group called Oregon Tradeswomen Inc., which is apparently about assisting women in the trades, and assisting women in getting into the trades in the first place.

I am fascinated.  It's one whole neighbourhood away from me, so I may go there sometime soon to check them out, see if they're who I'm looking for.  I would love to get into some sort of trade, at some point.

I may have had a point, but I got hit by a terrible pun (instead of "foreman", they wrote "forema'am"), and I need to go lie down now.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.