My Friends,
Slow week for news. So lemme break it down real quick:
Stayin' on my Grizzy
So far the job-hunt has had mixed success. I have yet to receive a call-back and when I did a telephone follow-up to the one place which seemed promising, the manager I wanted to speak with wasn't there. Then I went to a job-fair yesterday, or what I thought was going to be a job-fair. It was being held at the new Turtle Jack's location in Burlington and google led me to believe that there would be a plethora of employers just waiting to hire me on. As it was, the building was still under construction and there was a table of TJ's managers doing interviews for the opening of that specific location. It was a bit of a letdown because there was no point of me applying there (far end of Burlington + unreliable bussing). It wasn't a total loss though; I was with my little brother who, although gainfully employed, was looking to upgrade from the deli he works in to something in the restaurant industry, preferably front of the house. As they insisted he fill out an application to supplement his resume, we sat a table for a while while he started (tentatively/painfully) filling one out and eventually I just grabbed his application, threw it aside and re-did a fresh one for him on my own. If he gets the job he'll basically owe me for life.
The biggest news in the job front is that I got an advertising gig which may or may not be a volunteer position. The military family support group Canadian Heroes is entering a NASCAR car into the Daytona 500 next month
and when I contacted the founder looking to be involved in an advertising capacity he delegated/commissioned me to write the history of the first NASCAR dedicated to Canadian soldiers as a way to spread awareness. As well as not being an advertising job proper, it was also a more latitude than I was expecting with my relative inexperience, but I have always said "you gotta walk before you can crawl," so I'll take it as an opportunity. I've spent the last couple of days brainstorming what exactly I am going to do and I think I know the angle I will approach it from. Hopefully by the time of the next entry I have some words on paper.
IRS'ing Myself
Now that my most recent credit card statement has been issued, I have been able to audit myself and find out just how much my last foray into the world cost me. The final number, including immunization/travel prescriptions, flights, trains/busses, equipment, cash advances, consular fees, and everything else was $7913.64. This is about $1500 - $2000 more than I had planned on spending in my initial budget, which I now see was kind of unrealistic. Still, its over a thousand dollars lower than the figure I thought it would be toward the trip's end. And really, for 107 days that's not too bad.
Clothes Make the (Grown) Man
Operation: Upgrade Wardrobe began inauspiciously this weekend with the purchase of $11 khakis from Winners. I don't think I have owned khakis since the 90s. Does this mean I dressed better as a kid...
Slow week for news. So lemme break it down real quick:
Stayin' on my Grizzy
So far the job-hunt has had mixed success. I have yet to receive a call-back and when I did a telephone follow-up to the one place which seemed promising, the manager I wanted to speak with wasn't there. Then I went to a job-fair yesterday, or what I thought was going to be a job-fair. It was being held at the new Turtle Jack's location in Burlington and google led me to believe that there would be a plethora of employers just waiting to hire me on. As it was, the building was still under construction and there was a table of TJ's managers doing interviews for the opening of that specific location. It was a bit of a letdown because there was no point of me applying there (far end of Burlington + unreliable bussing). It wasn't a total loss though; I was with my little brother who, although gainfully employed, was looking to upgrade from the deli he works in to something in the restaurant industry, preferably front of the house. As they insisted he fill out an application to supplement his resume, we sat a table for a while while he started (tentatively/painfully) filling one out and eventually I just grabbed his application, threw it aside and re-did a fresh one for him on my own. If he gets the job he'll basically owe me for life.
The biggest news in the job front is that I got an advertising gig which may or may not be a volunteer position. The military family support group Canadian Heroes is entering a NASCAR car into the Daytona 500 next month
and when I contacted the founder looking to be involved in an advertising capacity he delegated/commissioned me to write the history of the first NASCAR dedicated to Canadian soldiers as a way to spread awareness. As well as not being an advertising job proper, it was also a more latitude than I was expecting with my relative inexperience, but I have always said "you gotta walk before you can crawl," so I'll take it as an opportunity. I've spent the last couple of days brainstorming what exactly I am going to do and I think I know the angle I will approach it from. Hopefully by the time of the next entry I have some words on paper.
IRS'ing Myself
Now that my most recent credit card statement has been issued, I have been able to audit myself and find out just how much my last foray into the world cost me. The final number, including immunization/travel prescriptions, flights, trains/busses, equipment, cash advances, consular fees, and everything else was $7913.64. This is about $1500 - $2000 more than I had planned on spending in my initial budget, which I now see was kind of unrealistic. Still, its over a thousand dollars lower than the figure I thought it would be toward the trip's end. And really, for 107 days that's not too bad.
Clothes Make the (Grown) Man
Operation: Upgrade Wardrobe began inauspiciously this weekend with the purchase of $11 khakis from Winners. I don't think I have owned khakis since the 90s. Does this mean I dressed better as a kid...
Hmmmm.....
...than I have so far as an adult?
Entirely Fucking Possible!
In addition to my bawss new non-jeans, I also stole a belt and a button-up shirt from my dad which made me respectable enough to go to aforementioned job-fair and fill out my brother's application for him. So that's something.
I solemnly swear that even if I have to staple my cock to my leg and then attempt to pass through a metal-detector undetected, I will have something more interesting to talk about next time around.
Stay Thirsty,
-Andre Guantanamo
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