Eva? Better than Amanda? I don't think so. America's Next Top Model really screwed up this one. Look at those blue eyes? How many people are born natural blondes like that? Hmpf. I'm sorry. Eva's just not going to make it.
12/16/2004
12/15/2004
The Great T-Mob Daily Forecast.
Sent to me via text message today.
Leo: Sometimes you have to hit the bottom before you can begin an upward ascent.
My question now is, just how many times do you have to hit bottom before you begin upward? Tell me that! 'Cause I seem to go there a lot and I'm not moving up.
12/14/2004
Jonesin'.
Five times in the last 19 hours somebody has Googled "Toccara Jones" and thus visited "Amy In New York." But I have hits all over my blog because of metasearches on her name throughout the past few weeks. What gives? Why the interest? And are you mysterious investigators offended or entertained by her placement on my "Brushes With Fame" list?
12/13/2004
(sigh)
Well, I dog sat for Trooper this weekend, watched TV and DVD's and ate the most delightful cheese Danish from Hot & Crusty on Broadway & 87th. Trooper was a good, lazy Labrador. There were no accidents on the elevator or in the hall.
Today, I am still overwhelmed by New York. I am dismayed at this Bernard Kerick hoo-hah. Americans will never be safe the way we're made to think we are safe. It's amazing anything in this world works at all. People are lazy in their jobs, incomplete with their efforts and irresponsible much of the time. The rest of us spend too much of our time making sure all of our, and everyone else's, ducks are in a row. And that's just so we can function in our own little part of the world, nevermind adding anything to it.
I work hard. I like to be busy. I like to use my brain. I like to make things better. There are a few jobs in which I'm interested. But I feel deterred by the others to which I've applied before. An HR person really doesn't know me. They see a resume that's "unfocused." I am, rather, a super-smart woman who's struggled to find a path that challenges me. I am ethical, and I have struggled to find an employer who is as much (despite my history in the Christian music industry). Working smart and ethically has caused me more problems with employers than not. I can't remember the last time I was forced out of a job for not doing my job. I always do my job. It tends to be for not kissing the boss's ass appropriately or not shutting off my level of experience or knowledge about who I am and what I accomplish. And I am hardly that obnoxious know-it-all kid from class who raises her hand for every question. They just see it in my eyes, these threatened bosses. They see that I don't believe their hype, especially when the hype is covering up lies.
Regardless, I can do many things. But unless the path between those things makes sense to some highly educated HR associate, I won't get hired. And we all know "highly educated" does not equal "wise," or "experienced," or "intuitive." Or "smart."
The question now is, how do I move on from this? How do I make sense of the this-n-that called my resume? How do I explain a leap from published journalist to band manager to graphic designer? From concert producer to retail associate? From executive assistant to window dresser? I've done extremely well at them all, so I don't even see why it matters...
Today, I am still overwhelmed by New York. I am dismayed at this Bernard Kerick hoo-hah. Americans will never be safe the way we're made to think we are safe. It's amazing anything in this world works at all. People are lazy in their jobs, incomplete with their efforts and irresponsible much of the time. The rest of us spend too much of our time making sure all of our, and everyone else's, ducks are in a row. And that's just so we can function in our own little part of the world, nevermind adding anything to it.
I work hard. I like to be busy. I like to use my brain. I like to make things better. There are a few jobs in which I'm interested. But I feel deterred by the others to which I've applied before. An HR person really doesn't know me. They see a resume that's "unfocused." I am, rather, a super-smart woman who's struggled to find a path that challenges me. I am ethical, and I have struggled to find an employer who is as much (despite my history in the Christian music industry). Working smart and ethically has caused me more problems with employers than not. I can't remember the last time I was forced out of a job for not doing my job. I always do my job. It tends to be for not kissing the boss's ass appropriately or not shutting off my level of experience or knowledge about who I am and what I accomplish. And I am hardly that obnoxious know-it-all kid from class who raises her hand for every question. They just see it in my eyes, these threatened bosses. They see that I don't believe their hype, especially when the hype is covering up lies.
Regardless, I can do many things. But unless the path between those things makes sense to some highly educated HR associate, I won't get hired. And we all know "highly educated" does not equal "wise," or "experienced," or "intuitive." Or "smart."
The question now is, how do I move on from this? How do I make sense of the this-n-that called my resume? How do I explain a leap from published journalist to band manager to graphic designer? From concert producer to retail associate? From executive assistant to window dresser? I've done extremely well at them all, so I don't even see why it matters...
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