Friday, December 30, 2005

"Get a job"

That has been prioirty #1 this break - try to find a job. So far, I have worked on a Cover Letter, e-mailed a couple of people looking for contacts, e-mailed a couple of people looking for jobs and spent a lot of time looking around on the internet. I feel like this is a good exercise, because the more opportunities I explore the more offers I may get down the road. Plus, I will feel much less nervous next week at the company visit to Chicago if I have some other ideas in mind. I can imagine myself getting very nervous in a job interview type of setting, which sucks because I can easily give presentations in front of one hundred people if I need to without getting nervous.

I'm also reading the book "Good to Great" because I find it interesting, and I need to read some business books so that I can answer that interview question intelligently if it comes up. The question being: "What books have you read recently." To which my answer will be "Good to Great" and "Business as a Calling." If it's three, I would also include "Letters to a Young Conservative," which is not good, because it just might give away my political preferences.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey buddy haven't seen you guys at all this break maybe I will see you tomorrow sometime that is unless you are doing something with your family for new years

Philip Patrie said...

The last two books I read?
"The Assertive Option" and "Homosexuality". Seriously, those were two books on a reading list I had, and I was glad to read another book so I didn't have to say that.