Another day and no word back from Toronto. I'm getting ready to move on. This job search is harder than I thought, but then again I am in the IT field where it's a bit harder than most other fields to land a job. There's just that speical case in IT where it seems, right now anyways, that most jobs require you to have experience and there are not a lot of entry-level positions available and this point in time. My only hope now is that tomorrow will hold a better day in store for me and that I will hear back from Toronto. I put so much effort into the 15 minute presentation and the 2 hour interview to not land the job. I hope the 3 interviewers and the company feels the same way. I gave it my best shot, now I wait for destiny to play out.
On another note I received the strangest call together in regards to a webmaster position that I had applied for with a company in Burlington. The lady, named Sonia gave me a call and we talked for about 20 minutes on the phone, with her asking me many questions ranging from the type of position I'm interested to my experiences and in the end she bluntly tells me that the webmaster position is no longer available. How crude was that? To put me through a 20 minute telephone conversation only to drop the bomb on me and tell me straight up that the position we're discussing over the phone is not even available to me. Well, quite frankly I think she's lying. The position was only posted 3 days ago so they couldn't have hired someone already, unless it was previously posted before. Anyhow, she offered the explanation that now they have a record on file for me and if another opportunity happens to sail along then we'll have the telephone portion of the interview completed. Still crude in my books. She then proceeded to ask me if I had any questions, which I was too startled by her prior statement to have the ability to formulate any direct questions at the time. I'm tempted now, however, to call her back tomorrow and ask if there's any other positions available for me that's IT-related for the time being that I could possibly work at for the time being. But maybe I'll wait until Thursday to give a call back. I'm reserving Wednesday for my day of waiting to hear back from Toronto and I don't want this new lead to sour the good karma of Toronto being sent my way.
So, all in all, Tuesday was an uneventful day. I ended up spending the day picking up supplies for my aunt's hair salon that she owns. She ordered a lot of items that I had to drive 30 minutes to London to pick up. The good thing that resulted from our encounter today was that I asked her if she was interested in a website for her salon. She said she would really be interested but we'll have to talk more about it next week. So, this could be a good thing for me as I'll actually have something to add to my portfolio. For the time being though, I'm refreshing my knowledge of Flash... boy it seems like I've been trying to learn so many things concurrently that all I've been doing is jumping around from one course to the next without completing the previous. Anyhow, I think refreshing myself in Flash is a good thing because I really enjoy the technology and think that it will benefit me now and in the future. So for now, I'm getting down to it, although the lessons are from a similar book I learned in school and will simply be a repeat. However, this will ingrain the technology and lessons in me further and gain me that further insight and technical know-how into developing a flash website in a more timely and efficient manner.
Alongside these events, nothing else happened. I was over at cousins and we merely chilled for a bit. Talking about business and other things related to business. My cousin is in the tool and die field and he constantly tries to convince me to learn CNC programming so that we can be business partners in opening up a CNC shop. I try to tell him that the type of programming that I do is different and that I'm not mechanically-inclined, but he insists that the language is not hard to learn (which I'm sure it isn't), but overall I just can't see myself working in a mechanic-related shop nor would I want to be. My story behind this is I was never good at mechanical or wood-working related stuff. I failed shop class in high school twice! Once was in the ninth grade, although I was still given the credit for passing all my other 7 classes... and even with the fail in the shop class I still somehow managed to graduate with honours, which is quite astonishing for me. However, my honours would end after grade 9. I would later take gr. 11 shop because it was either shop or gym -- my two least favourite subjects. I didn't want to take gym, although I'm sure it would have been the easier of the two courses for me, so I ended up taking shop, which would lead to my second epic fail. By that time though I was used to having failed subjects so it didn't hurt me as much, but it still did hurt. I was never the type of guy, before high school to fail any subjects. Always graduated with straight A's, so you could imagine how hard it was for me to fathom a failure. Anyhow that's all the rambling I can come up for today. Stayed tuned another day for another rambling courtesy of KhmerLeur. Goodnight folks!
