The new year is the Year of the Ox. I was born in the Year of the Tiger— Grrr!— and this coming year does not look to be a good one for me. It seems Ox and Tiger are not a good mix. In the upcoming 12 months, I can look forward to 3 neutral ones and 9 unfavorable ones. My financial and employment prognostications are similar— bad with a lot of careful attention paying. On the other hand, there is a new opportunity for a relationship and I have been advised to be nicer to the people in my life. Go figure.
Check your own fortune for the new year here: Chinese New Year fortune. (Results not typical.)
I picked up the Sunday edition of the San Bernardino county newspaper today, hoping to find something interesting in the Help Wanted column. It turns out the Help Wanted column is not what it used to be. In fact, the massive Sunday edition consisted of four half-page columns of ads. It took me longer to decide which cartoons I didn't want to read in the funnies section. (They're still printing Marmaduke!) No lie, 15% of the job ads were for security guards. Apparently that job hasn't made the jump to internet yet. (And, I can tell you from six months of personal experience, you're lucky to find a guard who can read the want ads to begin with.)
So, there's one more job source I can cross off my list. Monster.com has been very nearly as useless over the last six months. I completed a profile and a resumé online and constructed an email filter, looking for I.T. jobs. In return, I get a daily email of jobs that only fit my filter by the fact that most of them have an 'i' or a 't' in the job title. Every three or four days, the email contains a double listing for 'coffee host' up at the Barstow Station. Maybe they're thinking that coffee makers are electric, therefore you need the computer guy to operate them. That's certainly not far from the belief of several of my managers over the last 10+ years...
Every time I apply for a ground-level I.T. position with the county I get an email back six weeks later saying that I'm unqualified— despite the fact that I am over qualified for those positions. It's frustrating. (Although, I've since been informed that the proper way to fill out an employment application with the County of San Bernardino is to make sure that my resumé contains every 'key' word in the job description. The applications are initially reviewed by HR personnel, who don't know how to properly evaluate an I.T. application.)
All this and I got gently reprimanded by my parents over the phone today because I haven't found a job yet.
Oops, 70 minutes into the New Year, and I'm already being snarky to others. *sigh* It's going to be a long year.
"Oh you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY and they meet at the bar."— Drew Carey
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