Job Search '09

Today was the day that I passed out a bunch of resumes. Well, it was the first day that I passed out a bunch of resumes. I'm planning to pass out even more tomorrow.

But anyway, for those of you who're interested, I will now chronicle my days exploits...

I awoke, took my mother to work, and prepared myself for a days job seeking. I left earlyish in the day, and headed directly into Grimsby. I was prepared, and brought with me all the things I felt I would need during the day. A stack of resumes, a thermos of tea, my wallet, and my cell phone. I was ready! I had just enough time to accept a phone call from Fiona in Reading and talk to her a bit about her unfortunate living situation (from what she's told me I gather it's like living in a smokey dog house. And that's not a pleasant combination!) before heading out.

For a large portion of the drive into town I was stuck behind a large tractor with an even larger attachment on the back. He took up the entire road, and pulled over to let oncoming traffic pass, but cared not for the traffic backing up behind him. Eventually he turned, and my quest picked up speed.

My intention was to secure a job as a waiter or barman (or barrista) and thus I haded out resumes to each pub, restaurant, and cafe I passed in town. The first few pubs took my resume but weren't hiring. The first cafe said that had I put my resume in 2 weeks ago, I'd have probably had a job by now, but that they'd just hired. The 'Judge and Jester' asked me to come in again to talk on Monday. I like the sounds of that, and thus, I plan to revisit this local on Monday.

Then I drove towards Hamilton and realized that I'd had to pee since I got in the car. Subsequent to that, I'd drank the tea I'd packed and now REALLY had to pee. So I went to Subway and used their bathroom. I then, purely out of guilt, as I could have saved the money, bought myself a 6 inch sub. It was delicious and came to less than $4, so I didn't beat myself up much about the expense. After that I dropped off a few more resumes before hitting Upper James and finding that I hadn't printed enough resumes. Thus my search continues tomorrow.

Hopefully when I get home (I'm rocking the high speed at Caistor Central School at the moment) I'll have a slew of messages on the machine offering me greater and greater employment opportunities. However I've still printed out another 15 resumes to hand out tomorrow.

Wish me luck, and I'll keep you posted.