By the Letter E

This isn't much of an 'informative' blog this morning...just a little piece of whimsy I happened to stumble upon... On my morning drive today I reached a point where I was stopped in a line of traffic along a busy street.  So as I waited for the light to turn green I sat and people watched for a few minutes.  One woman stood out among the others because she was walking away carrying a newspaper in one hand and a cup of coffee in a red cup in the other. She wore a dark blue 'suit' of sweatpants and a jacket of the same blue color.  Around her neck she had a small shiny key on a lanyard that swung side to side as she walked.  She wasn't very attractive per se...but the way she carried herself made her more appealing I suppose.  She looked like someone that needed that coffee in order to function properly throughout the day. She had that groggy puffy eyed look to her as if last night had not been too friendly to her but I still couldn't look away.    So I sat

Searching for a job can be a daunting task for someone who has not been in the workforce for quite some time, has been out of work for awhile, OR if you have been in one position so long that you don't really know where to start once the 'end' has come.  I find myself in the initial category of having been out of work for awhile.  I allowed my spouse to do all of the working and the bringing home of the bacon so to speak.  This situation has it's good and it's bad points.  The good being you don't have to pay for child care if you have children, you save money on gas and other work expenses and you can concentrate on other pursuits like furthering your education.  The bad (and I'm going REALLY bad here), if your spouse loses his/her job, dies or decides to dissolve your union and you are unprepared without a job or insurance YOU are left with a huge mess.  Many people think it is easy to acquire a job and will give you the whole 'oh things will get bette

The past couple of weeks I have been indulging in my two passions.  Photography, and the internet.  I was sent an invitation by one of my Facebook friends to try Pinterest.  Not knowing much about the app except what I had read about on other sites my curiosity piqued.  So I accepted the invitation and moseyed on over to check it out.  I discovered that Pinterest is an online scrap book of different things that interest you and others on the web and all bundled into a pretty visual package.  It allows you to click on an image uploaded by another user or to load your own.  You can add a link to the images that directs to any webpage.  For example, yesterday I 'repinned' an image of Thai Coconut Curry soup, but clicking on the image itself took me back to the web page where I found the recipe.  Can't wait to try it.   So after exploring for the past couple of weeks I have found that I enjoy this site immensely.  It brings people and photos together in an eclectic mix of inte

Working is never an easy task when you have children. It's almost as if everything you do requires double the effort to get things done. So why I decided to take on not only my five kids, finishing college, learning all I can about social media, and looking for a job is beyond anything that a normal person might consider sane. I manage the delicate balance well...and by well I mean "Well... Some days are better than others". Now when a potential employer looks at my resume the first thing they usually notice is the gaps in between jobs. There are quite a few of them and they have all happened for various reasons but all have been an opportunity for me to learn something new.  I haven't been stagnant by any means.  So here's a quick run down of what I've learned and discovered during those 'gaps'. 1. I've discovered that there are more people at mother's day out with high level degrees that have admitted to wasting their parent's money on

I learned a new skill today.  Well not new per se, but new perhaps to my technical capabilities since I haven't had to use it until today. I had my first online job interview utilizing the Skype platform.  I have used the face time app on my iphone before so it's not like this type of communication is completely foreign to me, however today was the first time that I had an actual...er..virtual face to face meeting with a recruiter.  As a kid I used to watch episodes of star trek or cartoons where people communicated face to face via their watch communicators or computer screens.  I think it's amazing that that technology is now here and is quickly becoming the normal more convenient way of doing business.  It was a quick conversation about the details of my resume, with the occasional blip in reception but over all it was a decent conversation using the technology.  I'm looking forward to calling everyone now, although I may want to take a few minutes to 'freshen up