Tuesday, August 10, 2004
TO BE...OR, NOT TO BE...
It has been a busy couple of days, so the postings have slacked off a bit, I know. I got invited to a free day of Dad time on Saturday and spent the day fishing and taking my mind off of things. I caught a few, but nothing to write home about. When I returned, we had an offer for the house which I promptly rejected after consulting with some experts I know very well. It just wasn't worth us countering and sounded like it was someone who didn't want the house....they wanted the property. I don't begrudge people looking for a good deal or an investment, but we're not entirely at the point where we would have to consider an offer such as it was.
Today and yesterday were resolve days. What I mean by that, is that it is crunch time. I guess I was the same type of person that I'm encountering in my search for a new job...I was a bit pokey because I wanted to find the right person for the job. I had voice mail after voice mail after email after email from prospective job seekers...and it would take me a while to make sure through interviewing who I was getting. Well, I'm on the other side of that coin now. Several openings have come up dry as the weeks roll on, and despite being told that I was a good candidate by some contacts I have in the business, I have been doing a lot of waiting. But as I said, today and yesterday are resolve days.
So, not to shock a whole lot of you folks who have kindly (or otherwise) paid attention to the ramblings - I am seeking other employment. I have skeels (sic), you see...so I have tailored my resume to include the possibility of working in another industry. I share it below (edited of course). It's painful to do so, but it's a time sensitive matter that I need to solve. Initially, we had some time to focus our attention on radio...but the act of a woman giving birth waits for no man. The thought of moving, and traveling down the road with a 8 1/2 month pregnant woman and a small child is a bit scary...so is the possibility of leaving her behind to settle in a new job, only to miss the birth entirely.
Take a look at my resume and pass it on to anyone who might be hiring:
EXPERIENCE - No, I don't have a degree in anything but common sense and a real world understanding of business relationships and management of people. If you want a utopian view of how things should be, only to have to spend a lot of time to retrain the person to the way things REALLY are, then go ahead and hire the person with a piece of paper that your HR department insists is necessary for the job. Otherwise, I know how to lead people to a goal and respect their experience as well.
WORK EXPERIENCE - RELATED FIELDS
Public Relations: If looking bright and cheery at 7am, greeting the public on a Saturday at a company event when your family really wants you to be at home because you worked late the night before isn't public relations, then I don't know what is. If I can handle remaining cheery and upbeat while speaking to 10-thousand people I can't see - and not let them know I had really bad news from a doctor...I can handle pretty much anything.
Product Management: I have 15-years of working with a product that most people value and use every day. The product was the most important thing to me in the world, because I am the type of person who understands that my livelihood comes from it's success. For those 15-years, I have been on-call in hundreds of situations where I had to race to the office so customers could find the product available in an emergency. Some might see that as dedication, but I see it as necessary for product growth and development.
People Management: I have extensive experience in the ability to manage people of all kinds...happy, sad, egotistical, unqualified but necessary, nice but stupid, and every other imaginable personality. Through it all, I have been able to solve problems, meet goals, inspire, educate, befriend, and more...and then I would also manage them in their job responsibilities.
EDUCATION
School of Hard Knocks - I learned from my mistakes. Sometimes I have made the same mistake twice. Sometimes the mistake wasn't mine, but was left to chance or a matter of consequence. I learned from those too.
Library/Internet - I never depended entirely on others to train and educate me when a job situation changed or new technology became necessary. I took the time to teach myself in my spare time the skills I imagined necessary to make myself more valuable. I learned HTML Programming way before Microsoft Frontpage came out and made anyone an accomplished website developer. I learned MS-DOS before Windows 3.1 came out. These are just a few examples of how I have adapted to my environment - mostly in advance of the necessary skills.
That's just a small part of my resume. If you truly would like the actual resume because you know of an opportunity I would be qualified for - or you have one yourself and would like to have a valuable addition to your success...let me know.
I'm serious about the above. Contact me through my email.
It has been a busy couple of days, so the postings have slacked off a bit, I know. I got invited to a free day of Dad time on Saturday and spent the day fishing and taking my mind off of things. I caught a few, but nothing to write home about. When I returned, we had an offer for the house which I promptly rejected after consulting with some experts I know very well. It just wasn't worth us countering and sounded like it was someone who didn't want the house....they wanted the property. I don't begrudge people looking for a good deal or an investment, but we're not entirely at the point where we would have to consider an offer such as it was.
Today and yesterday were resolve days. What I mean by that, is that it is crunch time. I guess I was the same type of person that I'm encountering in my search for a new job...I was a bit pokey because I wanted to find the right person for the job. I had voice mail after voice mail after email after email from prospective job seekers...and it would take me a while to make sure through interviewing who I was getting. Well, I'm on the other side of that coin now. Several openings have come up dry as the weeks roll on, and despite being told that I was a good candidate by some contacts I have in the business, I have been doing a lot of waiting. But as I said, today and yesterday are resolve days.
So, not to shock a whole lot of you folks who have kindly (or otherwise) paid attention to the ramblings - I am seeking other employment. I have skeels (sic), you see...so I have tailored my resume to include the possibility of working in another industry. I share it below (edited of course). It's painful to do so, but it's a time sensitive matter that I need to solve. Initially, we had some time to focus our attention on radio...but the act of a woman giving birth waits for no man. The thought of moving, and traveling down the road with a 8 1/2 month pregnant woman and a small child is a bit scary...so is the possibility of leaving her behind to settle in a new job, only to miss the birth entirely.
Take a look at my resume and pass it on to anyone who might be hiring:
EXPERIENCE - No, I don't have a degree in anything but common sense and a real world understanding of business relationships and management of people. If you want a utopian view of how things should be, only to have to spend a lot of time to retrain the person to the way things REALLY are, then go ahead and hire the person with a piece of paper that your HR department insists is necessary for the job. Otherwise, I know how to lead people to a goal and respect their experience as well.
WORK EXPERIENCE - RELATED FIELDS
Public Relations: If looking bright and cheery at 7am, greeting the public on a Saturday at a company event when your family really wants you to be at home because you worked late the night before isn't public relations, then I don't know what is. If I can handle remaining cheery and upbeat while speaking to 10-thousand people I can't see - and not let them know I had really bad news from a doctor...I can handle pretty much anything.
Product Management: I have 15-years of working with a product that most people value and use every day. The product was the most important thing to me in the world, because I am the type of person who understands that my livelihood comes from it's success. For those 15-years, I have been on-call in hundreds of situations where I had to race to the office so customers could find the product available in an emergency. Some might see that as dedication, but I see it as necessary for product growth and development.
People Management: I have extensive experience in the ability to manage people of all kinds...happy, sad, egotistical, unqualified but necessary, nice but stupid, and every other imaginable personality. Through it all, I have been able to solve problems, meet goals, inspire, educate, befriend, and more...and then I would also manage them in their job responsibilities.
EDUCATION
School of Hard Knocks - I learned from my mistakes. Sometimes I have made the same mistake twice. Sometimes the mistake wasn't mine, but was left to chance or a matter of consequence. I learned from those too.
Library/Internet - I never depended entirely on others to train and educate me when a job situation changed or new technology became necessary. I took the time to teach myself in my spare time the skills I imagined necessary to make myself more valuable. I learned HTML Programming way before Microsoft Frontpage came out and made anyone an accomplished website developer. I learned MS-DOS before Windows 3.1 came out. These are just a few examples of how I have adapted to my environment - mostly in advance of the necessary skills.
That's just a small part of my resume. If you truly would like the actual resume because you know of an opportunity I would be qualified for - or you have one yourself and would like to have a valuable addition to your success...let me know.
I'm serious about the above. Contact me through my email.
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