Yes, the never ending stuggle that is life. Gotta love. Job a job offer. Fairly certain I'm not going to take it. With the attitude I'm running with now, I more than likely won't. I have to turn in some documentation on Monday all signed and official to go with the stuff I had already signed after the interview/job offer. I'm basically not going to take this job because it's still a call centre, the pay isn't anything to get excited about, the training hours suck, the commute sucks, the people who will likely call will suck. So that's the deal all wrapped into a nut on the wall. That's a walnut people, pay attention. What striked me as odd with the whole job is that I was sitting in a hallway after the testing listening to the testing people make these offers to people starting off with "you weren't so strong in this area, but we're willing to offer you a job today". The gene pool they were skimming for this job was just astounding. I felt slightly superior when I didn't get that "not strong in a certain area" line, but I was hardly excited at that point. I don't think I cracked a single smile the whole testing/interview! Same stuff, different pile. I figure I'll stick it out at my current job until I get fired, and hope that's the last of call centres. If I don't get fired in two weeks, I'll be surprised and confused. I'll stick around for a few months, see if I get any promotions, otherwise, go to a new job. Now I know a two week or so vacation would be sweet, but the problem with unemployment is that you never know if it really will end in two weeks or so. Dangerous situation it is.

So what should I do? I need to reflect. Find out what I want from a job, what I want to accomplish, and what do I want to be doing in 5 years. I suppose these are all questions that will give me a sort of direction in life... I've never really set myself any long term goals that I would ever consider achieveable, and since my stint in the bin, I've been trying to stick to the short term outlook on things. It's been working "OK" for now, but I'm starting to see the flaws in short-term. I think it's time to move up to the middle ground between long-term and short-term, without forgetting that short-term goals are also important. So basically, short-term: keep my current job. Not-so-long-term: find out what I want. So that sounds like a plan to me.

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She makes the sun come up and the moon go down
She's the one that makes my world go round
Body like an hourglass
She'll make time stop just to make the night last
She's the one that knows my secret spot
She'll make the coldest nights feel so hot
She ain't into material things
But she's the one that shows me what lovely means
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Well, I've been slacking off again... Shame on me! But really the truth of it all is that I've been working evenings. I'm never really in a blog mood in the mornings, so when I get home, I usually go sleep. No blogs for the world to read! But I felt like a blog was about due, so here I am to write again.

What's happened lately? Well I've been working at this tech support job. It's going ok I guess. I've been told I had a 0% call back ratio twice, so apparently I'm really good at this job. But on the flip side, I received an ultimatum from the head boss of new hires that if I don't produce sales on my calls, then I shouldn't expect to be there much longer. So I managed to make two whole sales today. I guess that's sort of an instant turn around, but I got some pointers on selling things from someone, so hopefully I can keep it up. If not, I just applied for 4 positions tonight. I'd really like to land a sweet gov't job. With it would come the "in" I'm looking for. Internal job postings are the sweetest plum. So that's the job front.

What's been happening outside of work? Well I'm glad you asked. Saturday after work I went drinking again with people from work. I managed to get drunk and make an ass of myself as usual. I hit on some chick from the Yukon who's name I actually remember right now! But for her sake I won't say it online. She was a cute blond who I'm told was cute even without the beer goggles. I think she was there with her boyfriend or something, so when I saw her with another guy later that evening, I bailed. On my way out I noticed it was past last call. A chick infront of me was trying to leave the bar with a full glass of beer and was told that she would have to leave it if she wanted to go outside. She set it on the bar and out she went. I looked at the bouncer and then at the beer... It looked good, it was past last call, so I asked him if I could drink it. As soon as the word yes formed on his lips, I had started to chug the beer and walk out the door. If anything I've managed to impress my tyro-supervisor with my drinking abilities, and he mentioned partway thru the night that he would try to keep me from getting the boot from the company because I'm funny and fun to drink with... Great qualities to have in an employee, but whatever. I need help becoming a salesman.

Lots of good BBQ weather left in the summer, but not too many weekends left for me. I don't work this weekend, but I don't have another weekend day off for a while after that. I guess it'll be BBQ for one, which is just fine with me. More steak and sausages for me! My training buddy got me hooked on these cheese grill'ems. What a creation! Tasty sausage injected with cheese! What more could a guy ask for!?! I've got a short list, but hey, tasty food is now off the list. I bet you can guess what's left on the list. :D

So that's about it in a nutshell. Work sucks but I'm good at it, and I'm still looking. One that would give me weekends off and a chance to buy a car would be nice. This walking is getting old fast.