{"id":21,"date":"2003-10-01T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:13:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:13:41","slug":"and-why-should-i-find-a-job-after-what-eight-years-of-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"And why should I find a job after, what, eight years of looking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that I&#8217;m more upset than I should be that I didn&#8217;t get a call back from the art school about the sysadmin job. They told me that the second round of interviewing would be Thursday, so I&#8217;m not expecting a call. Currently it&#8217;s Wednesday night, about quarter to eleven.<\/p>\n<p>My sister thinks I shouldn&#8217;t try for the machining job. She says, &#8220;Oh, you should just get a computer job.&#8221; How close is that to winning the lottery nowadays?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Hall-Kinion, worthless headhunters who have never found a single job for me since I started asking in 1998, are now posting jobs in Portland, OR that require you work in India. And guess what? cio.com has an article sayiing, &#8220;Non-Indians can&#8217;t get work visas to work in India.&#8221; Well, I&#8217;m sure their unemployment rate is a lot higher than ours.<\/p>\n<p>I met my sister&#8217;s friend&#8217;s baby today, but for some reason I don&#8217;t think I have much more to say about her. She&#8217;s quite cute and intelligent, but as a guy, I&#8217;m sort of at a loss for words.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;d go drown my sorrows but I don&#8217;t have the energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that I&#8217;m more upset than I should be that I didn&#8217;t get a call back from the art school about the sysadmin job. They told me that the second round of interviewing would be Thursday, so I&#8217;m not expecting a call. Currently it&#8217;s Wednesday night, about quarter to eleven. My sister thinks I shouldn&#8217;t try for the machining job. She says, &#8220;Oh, you should just get a computer job.&#8221; How close is that to winning the lottery nowadays? Oh, and Hall-Kinion, worthless headhunters who have never found a single job for me since I started asking in 1998, are now posting jobs in Portland, OR that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And why should I find a job after, what, eight years of looking?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}