I bet you're wondering about my job search. It's still a search, I suppose. But something weird happened this week, after an interview last Monday that seemed like it was going well right until it stopped and I never heard anything from any of the parties involved again.
This is that I've had a flurry of phone calls. Mostly from recruiters so far, although one person was from the human resources department at a company. This hasn't been perfectly smooth: a phone call I was expecting Tuesday never happened. The recruiter finally e-mailed to say the company had sent him and everyone else to a day of training they didn't tell people about ahead of time, which is nonsense but I suppose the sort of nonsense that happens.
All this converged today (Wednesday) in a solid 90-minute stretch where I kept getting e-mails or phone calls from recruiters, including one that I had just opened LinkedIn to check our conversation about because I wasn't sure whether I had talked with them or not. At some point I stopped caring about keeping track of who's interviewing me for what and I'll let their Zoom invite tell me everything I need to know. This seemed a wild coincidence until I remembered LinkedIn messages, like many, give you a little dot to signify that the party is on LinkedIn right now.
Anyway. I have a Zoom interview scheduled for tomorrow with some company I never heard of, but, what the heck. Also yet another recruiter spotted a job with the State of Michigan that I'd be a good fit for. So I've got a ticket on that merry-go-round again. The same recruiter found a second State of Michigan job I'd be fit for too, so, it's kind of like I grabbed the brass ring, I guess.
I'm not sure what's got suddenly every recruiter in the world interested in me. My brother gave me tips about the seasonality of these things, and that there's great pressure on everyone to close job listings at the end of a quarter, particularly a calendar year (so it's very regrettable that last December I didn't think I was in emotional shape to go job-hunting; had I known then how much farther I could fall ... ). But we're nowhere near the end of a quarter. One of the State jobs has an intended start date of the 14th of November, which is close enough to the midpoint between quarters that I wonder if there's a soft deadline there, like, they want someone to have got through six weeks of training before the end of the year (and they don't count the week between Christmas and New Year's). It would be nice if something were to work in my favor, since I didn't have the chance to buy a ticket for the $700 million Powerball.
So since that got me all distracted let's have some pictures of the Calhoun County Fair, after I was not destroyed by turkeys.
We got to the rabbits and rodents hall! Here a rabbit looks a little hung over their bowl.
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bunnyhugger watches the crowd suspiciously.
A guinea pig! They had three guinea pigs this year, up from the ususal total of ``at most one'', and I got two photos --- this and one that looks just like this but a little worse --- before they all went into hiding.
Several red-eyed white rabbits sharing a cage, and dinner.
See how well they're getting along? All four of them. Could be an album cover.
Got a snap of one of the rabbits mid-hop.
Trivia: The thwack made by an arcade Q*Bert machine when Coily fell off the pyramid and into the void was produced by a pinball knocker. Techie Rick Tighe suggested using one. Source: The Ultimate History of Video Games, Steven L Kent.
Currently Reading: Meet Me By The Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, Alexandra Lange.
