My younger sister is famous on YouTube. She has a following for her covers of popular country singers. Perhaps the pursuit of internet based notoriety is genetic?
On the employment front, things have taken a grim turn. Turns out you should confirm whether or not the people you have provided as references are newly senile and have new found penchants for gross misstatements.
So tonight I am creating an online portfolio, seeing as that seems to be the appropriate way to self promote ones skills and besides, there is nothing like HTML to take your mind off a less than lovely situation. It's that or drinking and I tend to only become increasingly contemplative when selecting the later alternative.
It's all out of my hands so I'll do only what I know how to, acknowledge that it's beyond my reasonable control and dive into the next endeavor.
2 comments:
you should only provide internet references. all your blogger pals are actually authors, communication theorists, journalists at the LA times... theyd be great references. who calls references anyway after meeting you? its a bad sign. best jobs I had are people who never checked up on my "references", but talked to me, listened to me.. and the rest.. well.. worked out.. at least for a little while.
It never occurred to me that my lovely readers would vouch for my worthiness as an employee.
I did have a bad feeling when they mentioned they were going to check my references after the 2nd interview. Bad sign apparently. It shouldn't have surprised me given all the hoops they made me jump through up to that point.
I should have had somewhat of an idea after having to meet with the EIGHTH person to answer the same questions. Rant over now.
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