Quick Weekend Away

I really don't want to head out this weekend to Austin just because I am in kind of a funk but I know that I need to get away. I hate to admit it but I easily get stuck in the day in and day out of the job search and it just brings me down. Day just wash together and that's not good so I am hoping that a weekend away will bring some new perspective. Maybe a little time on Lake Travis will do a body good. This was a fairly good week and hopefully I am a step closer to my time. Lunch with the Aussies tomorrow so maybe I can close them.

What's for dinner?

Grilled duck breast, fresh blackberry/rosemary syrup, brown rice.

Making My Day

I suppose that it does not take much to make my day these days but a four year old surely did it yesterday. Kindness comes in the strangest ways sometimes.

As I was leaving lunch I held the door for a family. The father was pulling his son that had to be no more than four years old in his wagon. As the father was pulling the kid through this cute face looks up and says "Thank you."

Thank you.

Wow, that's cool.

Not My Time

I suppose it's still not my time. I got the call yesterday that they have selected somebody else but they at least had good things to say about me. There were actually a lot of good things said. The one thing that I can feel good about is that it seems like they got somebody that is way senior that they could not pass on which is fine. I suppose I really cant be all that mad. It is what it is. I never really put the champagne on ice so at least I don't have to put it back up.

What amazes me still is that doors keep opening by the day. There are always talks of contract jobs or interesting full time jobs but I can't get them to close fast enough. I certainly don't expect that companies rush the process just for me but i am dumbfounded at how slowly thing go. I tell people all the time that this is a lot harder than you might think and not to take your job for granted. Newsflash - George is tired of hearing how talented he is and that it should be no time before something comes my way. Talent yes, but your assumption of how easy the job market is right now is irrelevant and completely misguided. More so, your attempt to make me feel better is not grounded in any reality. Rant over.

But the doors are still there opening which I am not quite sure how to take. Sure it's good but this has all proven that there is no guaranteed return on getting introduced to a role. Hell I have had a temp contract gig before me for a month now but even they can't 1. Send me a valid contract and 2. Spell my name correctly on a valid contract. This is turning into more of a rant. I'm done.

The Wait

Last week could not have gone better, but.....

There is always a "but."

Still waiting. I am still waiting. I suppose this is how the game is played. Things could be good - but you wait. Things could be bad - but you wait. This is like crushing a baseball in the bottom of the ninth and with your team tied and two outs. You hit it, and it's going, going, going as the fielder is going back.

You just don't know if he is gonna go up and get the ball or if it will clear the fence.

Take Your Shot

Back at it tomorrow with another shot at closing a deal. This one has been alive since February as crazy as that sounds but in the end I am still alive. I have had some good references going into this interview and I hope that at least opens the door for me to have an open conversation with the team where we really get to know each other. Chemistry is everything even in a employee/employer relationship and I want to do my best to create a positive vibe from the hand shake. Two hours is all I need. Get prayed up, put the game face on, go kick some ass.

Funny to think how much is in the balance in the two hours between 10:00 and Noon. Two hours. I'm taking my shot.

Into July

This week was super slow and I knew that it would be this way. With the Fourth of July on Friday this week was pretty much over COB Tuesday. Thursday got here before I could blink.

Although this week was slow, next week is pretty important. I have big interview scheduled that will end a process that started back in February - amazing to think that for this one opportunity it has taken this long. I suppose that things could possibly drag on even longer after next week and I would not be surprised if they did that for this process. It would just be nice to have some kind of closure for this deal. I would expect that next week will bring momentum on some other deals that I have been working on. Hopefully with people back in the office I can expedite the process with everything else and people will be ready to talk.

Good news with my canopy. I had been having a lot of brutal openings recently that simply were not right. Instead of soft, gentle openings I had been getting some really violent openings, way too many for a canopy with 260 jumps on it. The good news is that the manufacturer could not figure it out after a couple of weeks with it and they will be sending a replacement my way within a couple of weeks. So why not take the opportunity to do a custom canopy?