The drive up to Michigan ended up getting delayed a couple days, as I came down with what seemed like a bad cold last week. I started running a fever on Tuesday night, and could barely move on Wednesday. Delia ended up making the drive to Michigan on Thursday, and I was starting to feel better by Sunday, then one of my tonsils decided to swell up to the size of a kiwi. My dad ended up dragging me to the hospital, where I was checked out and given a prescription for Motrin and an antibiotic. Doing much better now. The swelling is still there, but no more pain. Hopefully it’ll shrink back down in a few days.
Anyway, I finally ended up having the meeting for the job in Saline today. The meeting was a lot shorter than I expected, they just asked some basic questions about my backgrounds and skills. Apparently the job won’t actually be opening up for a while, so, although it would be a really cool job to get, I’m not going to be holding my breath for it. I need to give RNet a call to see if they’ve decided on anything yet, and once I get back to NH I’m going to look into getting some temp work or something.
That’s about it. We’re going to be heading out tomorrow, starting the nice long drive back to home. It’ll be nice to be back in my own bed again.
As some of you know, Delia and I have been on a road trip since Friday. It’s mainly a trip for me to try and find gainful employment, since I haven’t been having much luck in the NH area. Yesterday I interviewed at RNet, the ISP that Jason works for. I thought the interview went pretty well, but we’ll see how it goes. One of the interviewers seemed somewhat concerned about Jason and I being friends and working together, but I don’t think it ever caused a problem at JLC or Net-Temps. Delia seems to like the Bloomington area, and has already interviewed with a massage place in the area.
Tomorrow we’re planning to head north to my dad’s house for a few days before heading home. I hope to meet with someone concerning a system administration job at a school in Saline, MI. It’s pretty close to where my dad lives, and the job looks pretty interesting from the description.
Other than that, not a lot going on. It’s been cool seeing Jason and Stacey again and hanging out and getting Delia away from WoW for a bit. Unfortunately, my trip coincided with Matt’s trip to NH, so I completely missed seeing him, which sucks.
Although, if I move out here, it would be a shorter drive to visit Houston…
Well, I haven’t really been up to much in my month of unemployment. The job hunt hasn’t been going too well, I’ve sent out a bunch of resumes and applications, but haven’t heard much back. I know a bunch of you have asked for a copy of my resume at one point or another, so I figure I’ll just post it here. I have it available in PDF, HTML, and plain text, so choose whatever flavor suits you.
Comments are welcome, so if anyone out there is bored and wants to proofread, please proof away.
I’ve managed to create the resume in one of the geekiest ways I came across (short of writing it in LaTeX), the XML Resume Library. It’s a set of tools and XSL for transforming an XML resume into the various forms above. It’s got some neat features for being able to generate multiple targeted resumes from a single XML, using named targets. It’s pretty slick, though it hasn’t been updated for a while, which is kindof disheartening.
