Insane Random Ramblings

At least on the job front anyway. I had an interview almost a month ago and I’m still waiting to hear something. Usually it’s a bad sign to not hear anything this long but the hiring manager in this case has been out on a leave. She may want to re-interview some people but maybe not. We’ll have to wait until at least Thursday of this week before she comes back.

I also  have another job interview lined up for Friday just in case. It’s a good opportunity with room from growth. If I’m offered either job I’ll be very happy. They both fit into my future plans for very different reasons. The thing I’m most excited about is the growth opportunity. My current position is pretty stagnant and I don’t have very far I could go. So anything that gives me room to move is good for me.

Now I’m at a waiting game, and a nervous waiting game for another interview. Fingers crossed that it’s finally my time.

A bunch of nothing today so here goes:

• I could care less about the new year. It’s just not a big deal to me so I don’t have anything planned.
• I need to make my resolutions for next year. I didn’t meet them for this year so I’m not too excited about this.
• I don’t understand why I’m not excited about playoff football. I don’t even care about the last week even with all of the compelling story-lines, but I’ll be watching.
• I’ve been sporadically catching basketball games since the season started. I have to say it’s still not my favorite sport.
• When do pitchers and catchers report?

Have a happy and safe New Years!

Ughhh I’m on a special project at work. It’s good and bad. Good because it will keep me very busy for the next 2 weeks. Bad because it will keep me busy…hahaha. I’m not opposed to doing a lot of work, I just usually don’t have to. But this project will keep me nice and busy.

It’s not bad though, at least I’ll know what to expect when I come in every day. And it’s nice to be picked to be a part of the project because it means that my managers see what I bring to the table.

It’s just too bad that there is really no room to grow in my area. I wouldn’t mind staying if I had advancement opportunities.

But I’m still not ready to face it. When I walked outside this morning, it was cold and kinda wet. By the time my bus got downtown, it had started snowing and sleeting. I didn’t want to put up my umbrella so I threw my hood on. When I walked into work my coat was wet all over and the ends of my hair that were sticking out were also wet.

I go through this every year and you would think I would be used to it by now. I just need to throw on my northface fleece and some warm boots and call it a day. Instead I insist on wearing short sleeves and flat shoes. I was supposed to go shopping this weekend but with the after Christmas crowds I decided to wait.

One day I’ll get used to the cold weather, or just pack up and move to Arizona. You really have no idea how good that sounds right about now.

And I’m not doing a darn thing either. Today is my last vacation day of the year. Then I go back to work for 3 days and I have another 3 day weekend. The only regret that I have is when I got sick a couple of weeks ago. I was out of sick days so I had to use vacation days so that I wouldn’t miss out on getting paid. If I hadn’t used those days, I would have off of work tomorrow as well. Oh well I can’t worry about water under the bridge.

On the plus side, next week starts a new year which means a new vacation schedule. I’ve been at my job for 5 years so I’m finally back up to 3 weeks of vacation.

It was just awful. Almost every game that I watched, the team that I was rooting for lost. There were a couple of games that I didn’t really care about but I watched them just because. I have to admit this past weekend was nice. There was football on all day Saturday and then basketball on all day Sunday.

Now we’re on to Monday and I don’t want to see either team that’s playing football tonight. There are a ton of basketball games but I don’t think any of them are coming on regular tv. I refuse to pay for a league pass for any of the major sports so I don’t get to see the games that they show.

I’m sure I’ll find something on television tonight to occupy my time. At least until I hit the casino so I don’t have to go out tomorrow.

Grrrr. I knew they had interviewed one of my coworkers but I just found out that another coworker had the interview as well. So why am I aggravated? Because the 2nd coworker didn’t even apply for the position!

It seems that HR goes through resumes to see if people from the same area are applying for jobs. They feel if one person is qualified then probably all of them are. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The 2nd coworker has a completely different job than what we have and they can’t do what me and the 1st coworker can. So while in theory they’re qualified, once they sit down with the manager they’ll see that they’re not qualified at all. As long as they didn’t talk about alcohol detox in the interview, they should be fine. The manager wasn’t tricky but she did pose some questions that could trip you up.

I’ll really be happy if one of my coworkers gets the job because we all want to get out of the area that we work in. But I’ll be really upset that it wasn’t me. Especially since I’m the only one out of the 3 of us that really wants the job.

I don’t even know how I did with this years resolutions. I do know that I put them on my other blog so I’ll have to dig up the post and see what I wrote. Then I’ll have to do an analysis on how close I came to meeting my goals.

I do know that my savings goals should be pretty close if not over what I anticipated. That’s mainly due to my house savings account. I’ve been squirreling money away for months. My debt however, is probably slightly behind the curve. I haven’t really gotten my hands on a decent enough sum to knock my debt out.

I do need to start on this years list though. The New Year will be here before you know it.

I’m still waiting unfortunately. My coworker had a interview on Monday so I know they’re not finished interviewing yet. I do know that the hiring manager wasn’t happy with any of the candidates that she interviewed the first week. I was the first person she interviewed in the second week and my coworker was in week three with the assistant manager.

I know the hiring manager is out until after the 1st of the year but I’m hoping she gets together with the assistant manager and makes a decision before then. Until then I have to go with no news is good news.

But no I didn’t, not at all. There was a “game” yesterday. The Steelers played like crap. The whole light fiasco was a hoot. I think it put a chink in the players game mojo because it messed up their rhythm. No excuses because the 49ers still executed and won decisively. Could I have saved my time and watched something else, you betcha.

I was off work because I had 2 vacation days to burn. I didn’t do anything yesterday but I didn’t feel like cooking so I went out and bought lunch. It was a opportunity to save a couple of bucks but I didn’t take it. Whoops!

I need to start planning my menu for next week now. The holiday is Sunday so stores will be crazy crowded on Saturday so I’m definitely not going out that day.  Monday the 26th is a federal holiday and my last vacation day is Tuesday the 27th. I am not going out to eat all of those days. I already have a holiday menu now I just need something for those random days off. Luckily I also have my New Years kielbasa on deck, I just need sauerkraut and whatever else I decide to have that day.

I’ll be a busy bee over the next couple of days.