First Howl

[dadiceguy]

I am not sure what I will say here. Or if anyone will hear me howling into the wind. I am heading down to Best Buy to look for work. Looks like the westside store has several openings. I am not looking forward to working in the kind of retail again, working nights weekends and holidays, but one does what one has to. Besides the daily brow-beatings from my wife that my unemployment is almost up are starting to hurt. :-)

I really miss the comic shop lately it was fun every Wednesday. Turning people onto new books like Courtney Crummin, Boneyard, or Invincible. I hope one day to open a shop of my own, but I want to do less of a straight comic store and more of something of what I like to call a pop culture shop. More t-shirts and other things that appeal to the civilians. Too many poorly capitalized stores out there already. Rather set the standard then live down to the existing ones.

More later...

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[lyndontoo.livejournal.com]

I disrember details (like "Westside" of which city) but best wishes on jobquest.

Job hunting has never been my strong point. Part of this is that my strong points (hour after hour persistence and patience, thinking things through deeply) are not things I can demonstrate in interviews. I can claim and tell about them but I can't really show them. ("The curtain is lowered for seven days denote the passage of a week.")

Most of my paid work has come either directly through temp/employment agencies or in companies that I got feet through the door through them (e.g got into one Univeersity department through temp agencies, and then to 3 others through normal University HR).

This last job ended with such advance notice, generosity (well above and beyond what was legally required) that I was able to try a variety of things that work for other people, but didn't for me. Finally after some months returned to my old procedure:

Aim for any day that I'm not working to sign up at another temp agency.

After 3 weeks of that got up to about 35 hours week, and didn't have time to sign up at any more.

Big advantages of this is that I've outsourced my marketing, which is not my strong point, and dodge most of the HR and interview hurdles to get directly to where I can go demonstrate at length day after dayw hat I'm good at. And get paid weekly in the meantime.


Oops, out of time to edit. Best wishes. More thoughts on what worked and what didn't for me readily available at lyndon@dragonriddle.net if you want an info dump to see if any of it is useful to you.

Lyndon