This is the view from the employee lounge at my new workplace:
| July 20, 2009 06:58pm |
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I just got back from a week in Provincetown, MA for a big, fat, hairy, gay event: Bear Week. Provincetown is beautiful though ridiculously expensive. Bear Week is a lot of fun with some absolutely amazing dances and social events. BUT... that's not why I brought you all here today. And by "you all" I mean my mother who is probably the only person who still reads this fledgling blog. So mom, this one's for you...
A few days before I left for Provincetown a recruiter called me having found my resume on LinkedIn. Within 48 hours I had an interview for an accounting - mostly accounts payable - position at a biotech company. The job sounds almost exactly like what I was doing at my last company except that there is no driving involved, just a short subway ride to a great downtown San Francisco location. The other big difference with this job is that it sounds like an extremely heavy work load where as my last job was packed filled of me doing things like chatting online, updating my portfolio site and filing my nails...
I had a pretty successful interview in which I was repeatedly told how "challenging" this position would be (I was guessing my nails wouldn't be getting filed for awhile). The next day I left for Provincetown. I talked to the recruiter a few times while I was away to coordinate references and paperwork and such. On Thursday the recruiter told me the biotech company wanted me to come back on Monday for a second interview. But wait... the recruiter called me back 10 minutes later and said they misinterpreted the voice mail from the company... they actually wanted me to *start work* on Monday. As in: Damon has a job again and did veeeeeeeerrry little work to actually get it. In fact, I was literally on the beach in Ptown while I was offered the job. If only I were sipping a margarita while being fanned by a hot bear love-slave at the time, that would have completed the entire scene.
Even more movie-like perfection is that I'd actually stopped looking for work to enjoy my time off and had promised myself to begin seriously looking again after Provincetown... Um. Sounds to me like the universe was listening or something cuz within 36 hours of returning from Bear Week, I'm employed once again. Creepy in the whole everything's coming up roses sort of way. And of course, by "creepy" I mean "oh my god, a job just landed in my lap and I'm completely stoked!!"
It's a temp-to-hire situation and we both get to decide after a month if this is a good fit. Worst case scenario: I have some income for the next month and brush off those dust-covered accounting skills. Best case scenario: I have landed a long term job with a rapidly growing company which pays really well and has a lot of professional/financial growth potential.
The tarnish on the silver lining: I actually have to work again. You know, like an actual responsible adult or something. But somehow I'll survive the whole income producing, sense of self-worth creating and much needed structure to my life once again scenario. But the transition from my cushy severance package supported lifestyle... ain't gonna be pretty.
| July 19, 2009 09:21am | 
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This is a tall, narrow building with a fan and a grill roof on top. The floor of this building was covered in about 6 inches of water. Valette was on top of the building, leaning over the roof grating.
This photo is a reflection in the water on the floor of Valette and the roof grill/fan up above.
| July 4, 2009 01:48pm | 
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