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August 28, 2005
Online Job Applications
Today I discovered that online job applications are a royal PITA (Pain In The Ass). Supposedly they make life easier for everyone, but it seems that the only people that they make life easier for is the people in human resources who must read through all of the applications. Example: In the box below please describe the duties of your position. OK. I try to be as concise as possible, but my last job had a ton of duties. My entry gets rejected because you are only allowed 200 characters to describe what you did. 200 characters? That's like three sentences to describe a position that entailed everything from serving breakfast to going out to other schools as a representative! Whatever the case, I did get three online applications completed, including the online resumes required be each different employer. It was such a pain since each place had its own format to be used. The fact that I brought a disk with me to my dad's office with the DSL line that I thought had my resume on it, but it had my old resume from when I graduated from college, not my updated resume made it slightly more difficult. I'll probably go back tomorrow to do some more now that I have the hang of it. I think that I'm also going to put my resume on one of those databases that employers search for prospective employees.
So after my writing yesterday about being so tired...I slept for nearly eleven hours last night! I must've been wiped out from something. I was tired last night, I had called a friend from HS to see if she wanted to do something, but she wasn't in town. It turns out that it was a good thing since I was in my bed before 9:30. I read for a while and then went to sleep. I woke up pretty early and looked at the clock. The thought I had at that time was it is 7 AM on a Sunday, if I get up now there isn't anything that I can do after my run. My philosophy is that Sunday is meant for sleeping late because nothing opens until late anyway. So with that thought, I rolled over and went back to sleep until almost 9:00!
I putzed around for a while and watched the news. I can't believe how strong Katrina has become. I feel so badly for the people who have been affected by it and worry for those who are in the projected path. I finally got myself dressed and went over to the G Trail to run. I thought ahead and put a cap on because it had been drizzling when I went out to get the paper.
I kept telling myself to slow down and take it easy while I was running today. I really want to have a good workout tomorrow night. I feel like I write that exact statement every Sunday. There really is no reason to care about how hard the easy recovery runs are, they are supposed to be easy for a reason, right? I ran five minutes longer than I usually would because that way I get 55 miles for the week. Mileage usually isn't a big deal to me, but when I get close to a nice "even" kind of number, I try to run enough to hit it. Oh, so back to the cap...about halfway through the run it started to rain pretty hard, so I was happy to have the cap on to keep the rain out of my face. I didn't see that many people out today, mainly mountain bikers, but I knew about three quarters of the people I saw. Speaking of rain, it's supposed to be rainy all week.
All right, I'm tired of looking at computer screens, so I'm going to catch up on weekends and then call it a night.
Posted by Blondie at August 28, 2005 07:15 PM