Day in the Life

"So what are you doing with your time? You can't look for a job all day long every day."

November 21, 2008

7:20: Up and out of bed. Some times the day starts at 7:00 or earlier depending on the density of my morning schedule. Pull myself together and get out the door.

8:00 or so: Walking in Coffee Groundz, the neighborhood coffee bar for my morning. The coffee is no where as good as Catalina Coffee (which makes a super expresso grind Americano), but it's a tiny bit closer to home so that works. Grind into my spreadsheet holding my search to sweep through everything I am working (spreadsheet is currently 326 rows deep). This results in about 16 emails that need to be drafted and a half dozen calls that need to be made this morning while I am at Coffee Groundz. Next week will be dead Wed. through Fri. so I am thinking ahead to that now. (standing outside making a call my new neighbors across from me stop and introduce themselves. Previous neighbors told them about me - I am the guy they "always see cooking in the kitchen window." Very nice people)

11:45: Head home to push out my emails and download any others that I missed that morning since I am off line to send email at the Coffee Groundz.

12:15 Out to meet John for quick lunch.

1:30: Back at home. Check responses to emails that were sent in the morning and also review any new ones.

2:00: Spent about 40 minutes on the phone with an HR rep. from a boutique management consulting firm that I found on the Kellogg Alumni Site. Very productive introduction and could possibly need to a meeting early Dec.

3:00: Phone call with a new recruiter is a no show. The time and day were his suggestion but this happens al the time. Since being at home from lunch I have also begun to archive 14 new contacts in the E&P sector that were given to me by somebody in the industry. Contacts are exported from my spreadsheet and added to my address book in Entourage - draft an introductory email for each of the new contacts and prep those to be sent out today. Also I am drafting a letter to a previous employer that needs to go out with a resume priority mail today.

4:00: E&P emails are sent and out the door to go to the post office to send the priority letter.

4:45: Stop by 13 Celsius in the neighborhood - one of the better wine bars around town. Open the laptop to find two responses to the 14 new contact emails that I sent out earlier. Not bad 2/14 on a Friday afternoon. One email is to schedule a conference call for Monday afternoon, cool! Let's hope for more over the weekend or on Monday before the holiday.

Day in the life.