On the site that used to be the local palais
By the end of last week my ever-fragile mood collapsed. I'd had that GIS job that I'd interviewed for, and that said they'd make a decision by about the 10th of June and here it was a week later, and so I had to conclude I'd never get a job again. Which you can say is overreacting, but, prove me wrong. Please.
Well, and then, things started happening, although none of them has yet resulted in me having a job. This also gets a little weirdly complicated so let me try to untangle it. It involves three recruiters.
The first recruiter, let me call them A, had briefly had a GIS job for me that got filled before I could interview. But now they had a new prospect, a job with a company down in Columbus. The one they were calling for was one that didn't actually exist yet but that they expected to open up in six weeks or so and thought I could get in early. But, the more we talked, the more recruiter A realized they had a different position I might be a better fit for. So it seems: this would be a modeling engineer, designing and coding numerical models of various events, the intention being to help prepare defenses against that. This seems like it should really engage my mathematical interests in a way they haven't been in fifteen years. But it also would be working for people working for security-minded government agencies and I'm not sure how I feel about that. That's supposed to be an interview next week, though.
The second recruiter, B, also had a GIS job that was so similar to the one A had, with the same employer, that I thought it was a duplicate. It wasn't. But after I didn't hear anything from the employer so figured that lead was dead. No, B reported: that job was just ``on hold'' somehow and no decision had been made. But they also had yet another GIS job with that same employer and think, well, I'm a fit for it and I've already got my name in their systems so that's a good step in, right? So, what the heck, we're chasing that one down too.
And then comes a third recruiter, C, who contact me on LinkedIn. They had an opening they thought I might be interested in. It's about building a documents-management system for the organization that standardizes building codes. This is such a boring infrastructure-type position that I'm really interested in it and if I could pick just one, right this minute, I think I'd go for that. It's supposed to be only a 12-month contract but I have never had a time-limited position that the employer did not want to extend. (Also, recruiter C said what they thought the pay would be --- literally three times what I had been getting --- and sheepishly said they thought they could get them to go higher if that wasn't adequate. I find that extremely adequate but admit, right now, even my old pay would do me a world of good.)
And so here I am, in three days having gone from no job prospects to three or possibly four, except that none of them are, like, things where I have an offer.
Have some more bunny pictures!
Pipsqueakery bunnies facing one another down.
That really chill, holdable rabbit enjoying a banana.
That foursquare rabbit enjoying a banana.
Trivia: Jefferson Davis had to appear at the head of Confederate Army forces, and to promise that they would fire upon civilians, to disperse the bread riot in Richmond, Virginia, in April of 1863. Source: The Confederate Nation 1861 - 1865, Emory M Thomas. To get the mob's attention Davis emptied his pockets and threw what money he had into the crowd, which on the one hand I guess worked, and I guess avoided further loss of life. Still, the president of the so-called country digging around for loose change in his pockets to toss out and get someone to listen to him for a couple seconds. That's got some real Jeb! ``please clap'' energy.
Currently Reading: Moon Launch! A History of the Saturn-Apollo Launch Operations, Charles D Benson, William B Faherty.
PS: Reading the Comics, June 18, 2022: Pizza Edition, just a couple strips and some marginal mathematics talk, as ever happens anymore around here.