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I hate looking for a job. Today I'm going to a career fair which I'm sure will be a huge waste of my time because they never have anything there that's remotely related to my field.
 
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I hate looking for a job. Today I'm going to a career fair which I'm sure will be a huge waste of my time because they never have anything there that's remotely related to my field.
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Career fairs are good for one thing, networking. Here's where you talk yourself up, and the hiring managers listen to you. You are basically skipping the resume part of the hiring process and going straight to the "Here I am, this is how awesome I am."

Whether or not they tell you, these hiring managers do talk to each other. If one of them brags about you, others will take notice, and so on.

Build a network, be respectful of them, and pimp yourself out.
 
Ultimate Houde said:
Career fairs are good for one thing, networking. Here's where you talk yourself up, and the hiring managers listen to you. You are basically skipping the resume part of the hiring process and going straight to the "Here I am, this is how awesome I am."

Whether or not they tell you, these hiring managers do talk to each other. If one of them brags about you, others will take notice, and so on.

Build a network, be respectful of them, and pimp yourself out.
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See that would work if someone there had ANY connection to graphic design field. The only companies at these things are Insurance firm, financial advise, sales, medical, Banks, and Law enforcement. I can't go up to some law firm and say "Hey I have no intentions of trying to get a job with you or even in your industry but let talk to you wasting your time for actually relevant job seekers on the slightest off chance that you might know somebody who may possibly be hiring.

If someone had some leg in the design industry, yeah I can ****ing talk their head off about how awesome I am. But without that The conversation goes:

"Hello art you interested in the excited world of accounting?"

"I canZ use PhOTOSHOP!"

"What's a photoshop?"

:(
 
Well I'm back and after twenty minutes of walking around and seeing ABSOLUTELY nothing even related to my career path and 20 minutes lines to booth that may provide possibly/maybe useful information, I just said **** it and left.
Ultimate Houde said:
Everyone looks for web designers, don't they?

Everyone needs new and exciting logos, don't they?
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Now that's just a huge time waster and a huge annoyance for me and everyone involve. "HeYz YoUz GuY NeEds KneW L0g0?" Hell I could just walk down a street to do that.
 
Two guys that can apparently be found on any film/tv set:

Obnoxious Asian Guy:
Obnoxious Asian Guy is good-looking, friendly and diversely talented, as he will waste no opportunity to shove down the throats of every person in his immediate area all day long. Sprinting from place to place at full speed, attempting to break dance in-between takes, showing off random martial arts moves or just leaping in the air, does Obnoxious Asian Guy have an admirable zest for life or is he simply an douche? Is he really friendly, or is he just looking for as many people as he can to demonstrate his skills to? I'll let you know when he stops beat-boxing to "himself" whenever people stop paying attention to him.

Assistant Director Patton Oswalt:
Nothing fancy here. On any set, one of the AD's is Patton Oswalt. He may look slightly different than usual, a beard here, a wacky hat there, a fluctuating weight bracket of about 30 pounds, but I'm pretty sure they've all been him.

And damn if these characters don't get tired after a few different sets.
 
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So I'm getting worried about my job. We've been bleeding people since about August, but today the once assistant manager got laid off. He'd been there for over 4 years. On top of that we've been having real trouble getting in the products that actually sell well. The warehouse doesn't seem to be getting restocked and I do enough office work to know they're not paying the vendors in anywhere near a timely manner. Stihl has already cut us off and I wouldn't be supprised if it was for good.

I really don't want to start job hunting. I like this place. Its a damn good fit for me.
 
The fire alarm at my job has gone off 5 times in 2 days. None of them drills, all because of malfunction.

Last Friday, it went off 3 times within 30 minutes. We go out the first time- come back. Sit for like 5 minutes before it goes for the second time. After we go out and come back in again, that's when it went off for the third time!

Then yesterday, as I'm coming into work, it had already gone off. Seemed it was fixed this time, or so people thought. As soon as someone goes, "The fire alarm is fixed now. The error has been taken care of and shouldn't happen again," it went off again right after that!

I'm just waiting now to be told we're just going to be working outside from now on.
 
So I was named in a lawsuit filed on where I work today. The lady bought Granite countertops off me in march and is sueing because the top and the island top doesn't match. Of course it doesn't. Granite is a natural stone and has massive variation through the sseam.

I'm probably going to have to go to court.
 
I finally have a job!! Working 16 1/2 hours a week, I can finally afford to buy my comics/DVDs/Blu-Rays. All the TV I've been watching this semester has been online, but I'll also try to save up for a small HD TV for the dorm, for when "Chuck" and LOST return next year. Those are the only shows I have to watch live no matter what... even if it means missing work. :p
 
So I got a temp job at a company that makes latches. All I have to do is take pdf files and separte them into several pdf files. It is so easy a monkey could do it. Also boring as hell and uses none of my talent.
 
I made a little song:

"Wastin' time,
wastin' time,
wasting the company's time
with Minesweeper"
 
I have not seen either of my bosses all day, there stuff is at their desk, but I see no one... this makes me nervous...
 
I seriously just sent this out as a cover letter for a job posting

Hello,

My name is Mike Weiss and I'm going to cut the BS. I want this job because I'm unbelievably awesome at photoshop and illustrator.

Bribes? You would be able to bask in the glory that is my awesomeness.
Martial Art Video? Pointless, for my skills are so great it would appear as if I am merely standing still.
Resume? Attached as well as a link to my portfolio http://www.mikeweissonline.com/portfolio.html

You move.
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... it was an odd job posting...
 
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