fuck this, i quit. louise, get in the car.

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bah. maybe i shouldn't bother getting a job somewhere else, i should just open a fucking bar.

[edited to add: talking to recruiters has simply reinforced the point that, without throwing myself bodily at some fucking training for certifications [though i could probably get A+ while sleeping poorly], landing a job that doesn't pay for shite in the tech field is not an option.

i've been out of the tech field for nearly three years, professionally, and i don't think that anyone bothers to read the "home business" section of my resume. tech employers see someone who was out of work for a year, and then got a job as a fucking secretary [sorry, margaret - what i do is barely talking monkey work - i used to have a gig where i did the red-pen edit stuff fulltime]. . . "what's wrong with this guy that he couldn't get another tech support job or something?" well, gee, maybe it's that doing frontline phone support, when call numbers and not actually fixing the customer's problem, were the priority - that's bullshit.

go back into editing? i've been out of that field for seven years; three if you count my last paying freelance proofreading gig. yes, i suck at marketing myself.

the tech employers see a word person or office flunky. the word people see a geek. neither of them see someone who is eminently qualified to do a damn good fucking job in their field, as well as bring a lot more to the table. . . they'd rather have two specialists than one skilled generalist, so i'm SOL.

maybe i could become a handyman or a slumlord if the bar ownership thing doesn't pan out.

oh yeah, i would need capital to do any of these. someone kill K's ex-husband, that $200k would make her life a lot easier. i've had most of the family members i wouldn't mind losing die already, and all i got was this lousy t-shirt.]

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the specific placement company in question is Volt - Microsoft's main staffing place [back in the day, __masque had good things to say about them placing her with another software company you've probably used many times]. hence, it's seattle-only afaik. tampa/st.pete is getting wallpapered courtesy of monster.com, and MSFT has a bot on their job posting boards with my name on it, so they get a handful of resume submissions every couple of days for tech writing or software testing or whatever.

i am honestly not looking for a new job here in new orleans. it's a much nicer place to visit than live, even if living here means more of you freaks (http://www.livejournal.com/users/etcet/friends) have come to visit in the last 22 months than in the previous 28 years. ;-)

if i could find a field that would pay for me being cool, i'd jump at it, but there seems to be a requirement for innate celebrity there that i only meet in select portions of cyberspace. heh.

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Yeah...well it was a thought ;)

And you don't wanna move anywhere else huh?

Yeah...I still need to visit ::hangs head in shame::. There's just been a lot going on here...offline stuff ;)

I sure hope things get better!

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the move - seattle is nice, so is denver. tampa has the benefit of good weather and good people and cheap real estate.

i want to buy a fucking house, dammit. that won't happen in new york or san fran. i don't care for the uber-city environment, and as decent as dc can be, it's infused with so much political bullshit that i don't see myself going back there on a permanent basis.

new orleans is nice, if you're in the right neigborhood, but it's dirt fucking poor, violent, stupid, and incredibly racially tense. i don't know how much there is to do, socially, that doesn't involve food [then again, i don't tend to do social stuff -anyways-, but...]. oh, and there's the special ring of hell that is insurance premiums down here because it's poor, violent, and prone to flooding.