Feeling Strangely OK - Spent

Feeling Strangely OK - Spent the weekend out of town. I'm mildly sunburned, but feeling relatively relaxed (as relaxed as I ever do, anyway). However - dozens of great blogging topics crossed my mind over the weekend...

...and kept right on going. I left my little reporters notebook - where I usually scrawl ideas as I'm out and about town - at home, as part of my desire to get away from blogging, job hunting, and everything else for two days. Well, it worked; I barely remembered how to get to my blog this morning, and I'm at a complete loss (as you can see) about what to write about.

Last week was good in the "great hopes for the future" department; as soon as I wrote this depressing screed about the last of my decent job leads tanking, more leads started rolling in. Granted, they were just classifieds and ads on Monster, but everything starts somewhere; the real point is, this was the first time I'd seen more than one gig in my general area (GUI designer) in play at one time in the last six months. I sent the biggest single flurry of resumes for actual positions (as opposed to recruiters) of this whole job search:

• Two to a couple of local institutions of higher education, for positions managing their websites. Not really up my alley, but I think I could deal with it for a bit
• Two to a regional bank that needs a couple of "information architects", and whose IT office is about a five-minute commute (25 by bike) from my house
• Two to a local healthcare conglomerate (that I used to work for - here's hoping)

. That's on top of the three long-term leads I already have

• one with a local financial services company that interviewed me on Valentine's Day, and wants to hire me - as soon as the budget is approved, which we've been waiting on for 5.5 months now
• A local consulting company where, as of early July, I was in the final three before they deferred filling the position until fall
• Another local consulting company that may or may not be on the brink of tossing me a decent little pile of work.

The suspense, of course, is killing me...

...which is why the weekend felt so good.

Anyway - back to normal this. Or, hopefully, better than normal.

Posted by Mitch at August 4, 2003 06:48 AM