or recession, whatever the hell we're supposed to be in. A couple fun facts I read tonight:
- With 600,000 jobs becoming no more in this country in each of the past 2 months, we're now in the wonderful place to say if you're out of a job, that you will have less of a chance finding a new one since before the mid-1950's when they began keeping records on this sort of thing.
- In SF, we overpay on housing by 93% compared to the rest of the country. Awesome. I mean, it's kind of old news, but still, awesome. It still feeds into the general mood we're being told to feel right now: fear and anxiety.
I wasn't very fearful or anxious at all until Old Grand Daddy Hearst decided to lay a big turd of "shape up or ship out, and since it's impossible to shape up, ship-freaking-out" on the several hundred employees at the Chron/SFGate. Though I've been looking for a new job for a while now, I was performing well and the Chron was a comfortable place to wait out a new and better opportunity.
Needless to say, I've become a job board whore. I've slutted out my resume to any pimply-faced recruiter intern who will "reach out" to me (and what the hell. is that the first thing these people are told when they're hired? "welcome aboard! now, you start a call by saying, 'hello, sir. i just wanted to... reach out to you today regarding an exciting opportunity.'") Let's all just take it easy on the "reaching out".
Another one these recruiter types need to cool it on is the term "hunter mentality". I don't care how many hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of people are milling around these job boards with me for a decent prospect, it's asinine to try to pump up some mundane, entry-level sales job with flare like that. People obviously buy into it, like it will be some dramatic adventure to dial a hundred phone numbers a day on some excel spreadsheet. The phone as your sword and your cubicle as your cave... really, let's just call it what it is. That wouldn't have even been cool in the 50's.
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Whoa, dial it down there with the lingo-bashing buddy. Are we going to have to pow wow to download the new isms so you can roll em up into your blog?
ReplyDeleteAs for the job hunt - one thing, thank god, has never changed; if you can't join em', beat em! Time to break out and start your own company (I know a couple of good websites that would love to have you on board). We should play patriot over a couple of beers, brainstorm, run some ideas up the flagpole, see what will play in Peoria before jumping the shark or screwing the pooch. We can vett em at the think tank and interface with cohorts to see if we can monitize them during this perfect storm. whaddya think?