Thunder, Lightning & Sugar Daddy's
Yesterday was the first official day of Summer; June 21st. I wouldn't have realized this if the radio hadn't been so kind as to tell me. Sunday and Monday (the 19th and the 20th) were the most beautiful days I have seen since I have been here. They were absolutely gorgeous, and all of the Pacific Northwest seemed to agree because EVERYONE seemed to be out and about. Well, once it was time for Summer to officially kick Spring to the curb, the tides turned. On the first day of Summer there was thunder rumbling away as lightning took the opportunity to splash across the sky. I've always kind of liked thunder and lightning, so I was impressed with having the display. Welcome Summer!!!!
As for Sugar Daddy's, since I don't have one, it is quite necessary that I find a job. Ho hum. So as I do that search, which seems to be endless over the years, I also registered with a temp agency. This requires testing and an "interview." The interview is mainly just to see what kind of placements you would be interested in. Anyways, at one point as the fella was trying to describe the benefits of accepting a longer term assignment, he was saying things like, "With the shorter placements you can sometimes go a week or more without work. I don't know if you are in a situation where not having a steady income doesn't matter, but...", so I cut his somewhat awkward explanation off and said, "No, I don't have a sugar daddy." Which was fine in this context, it really was, since he was around my age and seemed pretty easy-going. But after I said it a mental note-to-self popped in my head and said "Shababbler....In the future you probably don't want to use the word Sugar Daddy in an interview." Well, at least not with the types of jobs I'm usually going for ;-p.
I had been so nervous about doing the testing at the temp agency, but it actually went quite well =-). I was probably most nervous about my typing test, since I'm just at the threshold of what is wanted usually....but I came through for myself and even got 1 wpm above what I needed =-p!! Yay me!! And I have to send out a huge thank you to my friend Jon (yes, I've decided to use folks names now at times....as long as I don't use my own, the cyberstalkers should still be confused ;-p)! Jon is the king of sending handy little links to you when you don't even realize you need them. So when I expressed that I was nervous about the testing, he e-mailed me links to three different free online Excel tutorials, and the first one I chose was waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy handy!! I actually did better on my Excel testing than my Word testing! I think a lot of us take Word for granted and don't realize all of the things it can actually do. Anyways, thanks Jon!! You rock =-)!! Jon also has a blog that I am finding pretty entertaining, so I will attempt (not confident it will work) to provide you with the link: http://jandsw.blogspot.com/
That's all for tonight kids ;-)!! Sleep tight!!
As for Sugar Daddy's, since I don't have one, it is quite necessary that I find a job. Ho hum. So as I do that search, which seems to be endless over the years, I also registered with a temp agency. This requires testing and an "interview." The interview is mainly just to see what kind of placements you would be interested in. Anyways, at one point as the fella was trying to describe the benefits of accepting a longer term assignment, he was saying things like, "With the shorter placements you can sometimes go a week or more without work. I don't know if you are in a situation where not having a steady income doesn't matter, but...", so I cut his somewhat awkward explanation off and said, "No, I don't have a sugar daddy." Which was fine in this context, it really was, since he was around my age and seemed pretty easy-going. But after I said it a mental note-to-self popped in my head and said "Shababbler....In the future you probably don't want to use the word Sugar Daddy in an interview." Well, at least not with the types of jobs I'm usually going for ;-p.
I had been so nervous about doing the testing at the temp agency, but it actually went quite well =-). I was probably most nervous about my typing test, since I'm just at the threshold of what is wanted usually....but I came through for myself and even got 1 wpm above what I needed =-p!! Yay me!! And I have to send out a huge thank you to my friend Jon (yes, I've decided to use folks names now at times....as long as I don't use my own, the cyberstalkers should still be confused ;-p)! Jon is the king of sending handy little links to you when you don't even realize you need them. So when I expressed that I was nervous about the testing, he e-mailed me links to three different free online Excel tutorials, and the first one I chose was waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy handy!! I actually did better on my Excel testing than my Word testing! I think a lot of us take Word for granted and don't realize all of the things it can actually do. Anyways, thanks Jon!! You rock =-)!! Jon also has a blog that I am finding pretty entertaining, so I will attempt (not confident it will work) to provide you with the link: http://jandsw.blogspot.com/
That's all for tonight kids ;-)!! Sleep tight!!
posted by The Shababbler at 10:17 PM
5 Comments:
Since it was a temporary agency saing "I don't have a Sugar Daddy" was not to bad.. but yes I would avoid it on any "real" interviews you have. When I was doing temp work there were people who only wanted to work like 20 hours a week or wanted tons of time off, he did not approach the question as professionally as my rep. did but that's what he was trying to find out. I believe I was asked "how many hours would you like to work per week?"
I think it would be awesome if you became a freelance espionage agent. :)
Ooooooohhhh....freelance espionage.....hadn't thought about that one yet ;-).
Yes, freelance. Not beholden to any one government or ideology, you'd be free to take on any assignment. Sometimes you work for the good guys, sonetimes you work for the bad guys, sometimes it's money and sometimes it's revenge. Ok, time for me to go work on the script. :)
Hehe. I wonder why Freelance Espionage Agent didn't come up as one of the options in my recent "Career Assessment" =-p.
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