Just Another Day In Paradise

February 22, 2008 · Posted in General

It’s a little ironic. Patti and I finally decide that we’re going to head back to Texas. I post my resumes on Monster and CareerBuilder so I might be able to find a job out there, and what happens? Both of my email addresses — and my cell phone voice mail — get filled with offers from recruiters in Seattle. And there isn’t anything I can really do about it other than either hide my resume until I move and can update it with an El Paso address, or just politely respond to each one saying "Sorry, I’m moving, didn’t want you to see this…"

Okay, it’s only a little ironic. Even what little irony there is exists mainly because last year, when I was actually hoping for a job in Seattle, no one was interested at all. I’ve also since learned the stupidity behind that desire: I hate driving ~35 miles one way to work each day; the drive to Seattle would be absolute misery, and I highly doubt any company worth working for would pay me enough to justify the drive.

So this morning I hid my resumes. And you know what? It might even be worth it to avoid those job sites anyways. I know I probably don’t want to do software anymore, and I know that El Paso is a terrible place to try and find a tech job. And the resumes are just hidden — they’re still there, so I can still apply to jobs if I find them, but at least I don’t have to put up with what amounts to little more than spam in my current situation.

Aside from that, not much has been going on recently (hence the lack of posts). Rager still hasn’t picked up Like Glass, but they haven’t rejected it yet either. And that’s fine. I need to let myself get distracted by trying to move so that’ll happen. Moving is something Patti and I can control; I can’t make someone decide to publish my book by trying really hard (though I have found out that I can make someone decide to not publish my book by trying too hard to get them to publish it).

And, since I’m sure every one’s just dying to know why I’ve kinda disappeared lately, I’ve been trying to stay off the computer as much as possible — even avoiding what had been my routine of a video game and a blog post in the morning. It hasn’t worked out very well. I’ve been on the computer every morning while I try to wake up, I just don’t really do anything, except maybe check out a couple of websites (lolcats are fun). Once I’m a little bit awake — generally around 5:30 or 6, I’m able to bring myself to break away from it and go sit around to wait until it’s time to go. Life’s fun, no? Staring at a blank television screen while trying half-heartedly to stay awake is better than staring at this computer screen, believe me. If someone had told me a year or two ago that I’d be this tired of computers, I’d've laughed pretty damned hard…

Anyways, it’s past time to get away from this thing for the morning.