Jeff

Long Time

Its been a week since I last posted anything, I’ve been turned down on a few of the resume submissions, even the one that called me asking to submit my resume… I should just stop getting my hopes up this semester. I’ve got an exam in the morning, hopefully it goes better than the one I had today… long story. Frisbee intramurals start on Sunday, I hope we can get far. Its nice to get into frisbee again. I plan on attending a few tournaments with these guys, a few friends are playing with me too, so it has turned into a big part of my weekly life. I’m getting into shape, and its fun at the same time. I look forward to going out every other day and spending two hours competing in the game. I missed it for so long…

I’ve got like 10 weeks left and then one last semester. I need a job by then, a place to stay, and a gameplan. I just don’t think I’m ready or am going to find a way to succeed in that time. I’m going to be scraping by just to get an interview late into the spring semester. I have talked to numerous companies, applied to many of them, and have been getting turned down left and right. I just can’t get past the paper part of it. My friends are all getting interviews, even if its with companies I have no interest in. This streak of lack of success is really losing any optimism or hope I had going into this. I fear I will end up with a crap ass job that I will care little about and just end up rotting there for 40 years of my life… I want to enjoy a job, and I don’t want to have to worry about one right up until graduation. SOMEONE HIRE ME!

IR week is over

So I’ve finished IR week, it was quite a doozy. I spent three days preparing, attending, researching, and otherwise getting denied by companies to be hired. I just am not the greatest paper candidate for a job. I don’t have any intern experience, I don’t have a stellar GPA, but I think if I can ever get to an interview, I am a good candidate. Then Thursday and Friday I spent catching back up with homework that I neglected for the three days during IR. Then this weekend I got drunk on Saturday at breakfast club, slept through the tailgate and game, and then slacked off all day today. So it means I have a tough week ahead of me, but less interview denials. I hopefully will get it all done, with plenty of time of course (e_e). I have a lot on my plate, I should have worked today to get some of it done, but I just wanted to enjoy some of my week. Tomorrow will be devoted to my project, then I need to push in the lab exercise by Wednesday and then finish up the 437 lab by Friday morning. sigh I have been doing this for four years now, it doesn’t even scare me this time… God I’m getting old. I may even finish off the sorting menu for image galleries by the weekend, I have the fancy animated javascript almost done, its all done by hand too, fancy me!

IR week begins

And so IR week begins…

IR or Industrial Roundtable is one of the largest (if not largest entirely) college job fairs in the country. Today there are seminars from various companies where we can meet the companies and understand what all they do and how we can help. Tuesday and Wednesday are open table introductions, where I get to try and hand them my resume and they get a feel for me as a possible hire (hopefully). Then the rest of the week are closed interviews based on invitation only. God the pressure is building.

Hopefully I can get some interviews and some of the companies will like me enough that I can get further into the hiring process. If I don’t get any interviews, it would be very upsetting. I have been spending hours researching companies I would like to apply to, I already have a page and a half of basic characteristics of each company and will probably spend more time today. Here’s hoping I can get it rolling this week and not have to wait through the long online application process…