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May. 20th, 2009 @ 02:47 pm The Orlando Job Market Sucks...
...not that anywhere else is better.

I have a double degree in Finance and Accounting and no one is hiring. I have officially left Lockheed Martin and I don't think I'm going to hear back from them. Of the seven reqs I applied for on their site, three of them have been taken down. I went to a job fair today and the most promising lead came from what I later found out (after I Googled the company) is a Multi-Level Marketing company. In simpler terms, it's a pyramid scheme. YAY! Needless to say, I'll be declining them when they call to interview.

I am also looking on Monster and Craigslist. All of the Craigslist job postings that I qualify for are scams, but I'm getting desperate.

During the entire last semester, I was ready to move on with my life. Now, I'm in even more of a rut.

I don't know what to do.
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Feb. 18th, 2009 @ 09:59 pm hotjobs has a hot job for you!
Yahoo is pimping out its career service by promoting "articles" it deems will help folks "find they're dream job."

To clarify, Yahoo got paid by FindtheRightSchool.com to say "These careers pay well and all you need is a bachelor's degree from an online school!"

The sad part is, this list is pretty accurate. That is, if you consider that nothing on that list is on there without some common sense. No duh physical therapists and nurses and "skin care specialists" are going to be in high demand because of our aging population. Dental Hygenist and Elementary Teacher are just thrown in because it is an add for online degree earning programs.

The part that makes me really sad though is that two of the careers on there (Financial Planning and Accounting) are what I spent the last four years of my life preparing to do. I will have a double major in those fields by the end of the semester. And now, I don't want it. It took me the better part of three and a half years to realize this is not what I'm passionate about, and now I can't go back and change it.

I sat through my tax class tonight, thinking "I may use this, but probably not." I'm not going to be an accountant, or a financial planner. The way the world is today, the knowledge I have now will be obsolete in less than ten years, if not in five. That makes it incredibly difficult for me to want to be in a profession where I have to re-learn everything whenever the laws change. It's too much. It's not for me.

If only I could get started on what I want to do NOW. But with the economy the way it is, I don't know when I will be able to.
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Oct. 28th, 2008 @ 05:48 pm (no subject)
Why is it that the only time I update, it is to report on critically malfunctioning moments in my life.

I get to re-take a class... YAH!!! It wasn't bad the first time, I just wish I could move on.

So now I'm taking Intermediate Financial Accounting, Auditing, Tax, and Financial Derivatives next semester. No Capstone until summer, which means I don't graduate when I want to. YAH!!!

And now my girlfriend is mad at me because I can't live down in Miami with her during the summer.

Go life!
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Sep. 24th, 2008 @ 04:10 pm It's that time of year again...
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Bad Things - Jace Evrette The theme to True Blood
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I am going to the HHN employee preview tonight after all. Yeah getting homework done early! Full report to follow tonight or tomorrow.
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Feb. 14th, 2008 @ 09:53 pm I need a fix, 'cause I'm going down...
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Happiness is a Warm Gun - The Beatles
down to the pits that I left up town, I need a fix 'cause I'm going down......

After this week, I really question the way the universe operates. I want to say that the two tests I had on Monday and Tuesday were the worst of it, but on Wednesday I rear-ended someone on I-4. Now not only am I going to pay a $1000 deductible, but I'm probably going to be dropped from my insurance company because I've had two major accidents in three years.

Then, not five minutes ago, I learned of another University shooting. Five are dead, not including the suicidal gunman.

I wish it was tomorrow already.
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Feb. 7th, 2008 @ 12:01 pm Young Frankenstein
Current Location: BA 1
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Deep Love- Young Frankenstein
Only Mel Brooks could come up with a song, when taken out of context, can sound so normal. I left as much context in:

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Jan. 22nd, 2008 @ 05:32 pm Heath Ledger dies at 28...
Current Location: BA 2
Current Mood: depressed
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/22/heath.ledger.dead/index.html">This is so depressing, not even the Joker would laugh.</a>
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Jan. 22nd, 2008 @ 02:09 pm (no subject)
Current Location: BA1
Current Mood: sick
Current Music: The Bitch of Living - Spring Awakening
I hated Cloverfield. Absolutely loathed it.

I love movies. Only can a truly horrendous piece of garbage make me want to hate a movie. I can not like an ending, and still love the movie (Saw 3). I can hate the plot, but still enjoy the movie for the visuals (Ultraviolet). I can even hate the acting and still like the movie (a couple of B-rated horror movies no one here would have seen). But with Cloverfield, I hated pretty much everything.


( Review )


In coming out of the theater, my girlfriend (still a little green in the face) asked me what I thought of it. I responded "I can't wait for The Dark Knight to come out."

P.S. I know the grammar in most of this doesn't make sense, but I'm suffering from a headache and wanted to get all of this down in writing before I forgot something.
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Jan. 15th, 2008 @ 09:55 am (no subject)
This has also happened to me before. When I tried one out during the second Night of Percussion at Timbercreek.

I know my last two posts have been pimping QC, but I don't care.
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Jan. 10th, 2008 @ 09:56 am For all people who have ever been a percussionist...
Current Location: BA1
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim
... with OCD. I felt like doing this a couple of times... pathetic I know. But funny as hell.

Poor sticky!
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Jan. 4th, 2008 @ 03:42 pm Youtubeness...
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Amelie
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Before going to New York, I received $80 in gift cards to Target from Lockheed Martin for the "Performance Management Team" I'm part of. With that, I purchased a video camera of craptacular quality. Taking that to New York, several scenes were filmed. I then brought that footage back to Orlando, where I went to town making a very sorry attempt at a funny video using Windows Movie Maker and Audacity (to add the song so it wasn't entirely boring).

Boy, does it suck.

So I uploaded it onto Youtube so the rest of the world (or about 20-25 people) can see how pathetic I am.

And by following this link, you too can see how pathetic it/I am.

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Dec. 30th, 2007 @ 10:16 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: nervous
Current Music: I'll Cover You (Reprise) - Rent
I just realized I didn't post anything about the trip to New York, but I don't really care about that right now.

My girlfriend is currently on a bus in the middle of nowhere in a country filled with communist guerrillas.

The bus would be moving forward, if not for the semi which decided it was going to park it self so that the front end would be up against the cliff face and the back end over the edge on the other side of the road (Way too high up to chance backing up).

When this was realized, we had to stop talking over the phone out of fear someone would overhear us conversing in English.

That is when I realized, that I will (save intervention from some unseen force) never be able to visit her parent's homeland. I will never see her father's side of the family (unless they were to come here), because it is too dangerous for this white-ass gringo.

I hear descriptions of the countryside (including the beaches, the river, the jungle, and the mountains), and feel an overwhelming desire to be there and see it.

I now know that if I ever did go there, I wouldn't be able to travel between cities because even my girlfriend (who doesn't look American) can be taken just to help bankroll the morally bankrupt guerrillas.

I am currently awaiting a text from her so I know that she is okay.

I know she will be fine, but I just want more of an assurance.
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Dec. 3rd, 2007 @ 06:31 pm IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Current Location: home
Current Mood: blank
Current Music: Heroes, soon...
My computer is back from Gateway with a brand new hard disk (but still a measly 504 MB of RAM). I have nothing on my computer. NOTHING!!!! That includes all the glorious anti-virus programs a former co-worker at the testing lab loaded on here for me, for free, and now I feel naked.

Except for the automatic windows updates that are occurring at a rate of 10 to 20 every 5 minutes.

I just finished downloading Firefox so that I can have internet access without using Internet Explorer of Virus DEATH!

In the meantime, I need to go purchase Office 2007 from the student computer store, and figure out how to proceed. I really want to up my RAM, but I am weary of upgrading the hardware in my aging computer.

I also need to talk to Tiffy regarding how I should handle my iPod and iTunes.

Any other advice would be appreciated.
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Nov. 28th, 2007 @ 07:16 pm Haven't Done one in a while...
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: apathetic
Current Music: NC State/Mich Basketball Game
Pick ONE word from each pair that you think describes me the best...leave it in the comments. Then copy this and post it in your own journal to see how your friends view you.

* dominant or submissive
* logical or intuitive
* social or loner
* kinky or vanilla
* cute or sophisticated
* kitten or puppy
* warm flannel sheets or sleek satin
* leader or follower
* quiet or talkative
* spontaneous or planned
* teddy bear or porcelain doll
* hiking or window shopping
* coffee or tea
* top or bottom
* bare foot or shoes
* jeans or slacks
* tender or rough
* aware or dreamy
* nerd or jock
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Nov. 19th, 2007 @ 06:50 pm I'm happy, even though I shouldn't be...
Current Location: Aunt's House, Dogsitting again.
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Dishwasher
Office politics is getting on my last nerve. There is an issue with the report I send out to all the program heads regarding labor hours and budgets and variances. One program head is claiming that his labor hours are being overstated. I told him that parts that belong to his program are being touched (or more likely, moved) by the folks in central stores (the storage area) and that if they aren't supposed to, then he should tell them so. The problems occurred the next week; so I then referred him to my immediate supervisor, who created the report in the first place. My boss never got back to him. It happened again last week and again today.

I have no control over how my report comes out; I just compile the numbers that are given to me. I can not pull smaller numbers out of my ass just for him. I should not be penalized for the mistakes/miscalculations of others. When it came time for my customer satisfaction survey (for the Performance Management Team I'm in), I had to give it to this program head. He even had the nerve to say in the e-mail reply that he knows it's not my fault but that by giving me a bad score, he hopes to get a message across.

Wait until my PMT Leader hears about this. I also forwarded the survey to my boss so he can see what underhanded/shifty thing this guy is doing.

My laptop is dying a slow and painful death. I believe my hard drive is failing, because it now completely refuses to boot up most of the time. When I can get it working, Norton doesn't find any viruses. I contacted Gateway customer service to get assistance, and they are (as expected) entirely useless and grammatically annoying (damn outsourcing). I managed to get all my music and videos backed up in case it dies on me finally. The only fortunate thing about this situation is my warranty that should let me get a replacement.

My girlfriend will be in town on Wednesday. If it weren't for that fact, I would be absolutely and utterly depressed.
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Oct. 25th, 2007 @ 12:39 am Grrr...
You know when you're sick, and you sleep for most the day? Then, you can't go to sleep when you have important things to do the next day...

Yeah...
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Sep. 20th, 2007 @ 07:39 am Email between my mother and I concerning that great holiday:
Mom: <
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Mom: <<www.talklikeapirate.com.url>> Just wanted to let you all know that my
friends at Hewitt Associates told me that today is "talk like a pirate
day". It occurs every year on September 19.

Me: If I had class instead of work, I'd be doing it. I've known since last
week. Arrr!

Mom: How did you know?

Me: I've participated in the past.

Mom: What did you do? How can we celebrate?

Me: Talk like a pirate...

Mom: oh...

I love my mother. When I got home from work, she had an eye-patch that one of the associates helping at ORMC had given out. I suck at speaking pirate, but all of my e-mails ended with "Arr!" and after one confused response added a post script with a notice that it was ITLaPD.
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Sep. 8th, 2007 @ 08:04 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Stranger Than Fiction
"Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And fortunately, when there aren’t any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or a subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort. Not to mention hospital gurneys, and nose plugs, and uneaten Danish, and soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume on accessorize our days, are, in fact, here for a much larger and nobler cause: They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange. But I also know that it just so happens to be true."
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Aug. 10th, 2007 @ 01:51 am I know things now... today more than ever!
Current Mood: accomplished
If nothing else, this year that I am about to turn twenty-one, is full of more experiences than I have had in my entire life thus far; including a new girlfriend (not so new now, eight months on Sunday), a career change, classes that actually belong to my major field of study and a new understanding of __ _____ _ _____.


I have grown so much this year and will continue to grow. I think that this year has been the best year of my life so far.
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Jun. 19th, 2007 @ 03:13 pm (no subject)
Current Location: UCF
Current Mood: pissed, yet satisfied.
Current Music: Oogie Boogie's Song-TNBC
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If dimhouse calls one more time to try and get me to reconnect the service to a place where I no longer live... I'm going to lose it!!!! ::ring ring:: Not gonna lie, they're calling again!

Hello, is this a Mr. Sherwin?

Yes. Are you trying to get me to reconnect my service?

::Slight pause:: Yes, um, sir...

I'm sorry to have to cut this short, but you have called my cell phone four times today (and yes, I know it's not just you but Brighthouse in general who is calling me), twice at work, once while I was in the shower and just now, as I'm writing a livejournal post to my friends and acquaintances about how you people are harassing me. Get the message and write it down and pass it on to all your little friends. Do you have a pen?

::no answer, but she's still there::

I said, do you have a pen?

Yes...

Good, now write this down: I no longer live at that residence. I never will again. I have moved back in with my parents, who already subscribe to your cable internet service. That is because they haven't found a suitable replacement yet. They already switched over our television service to Direct TV. And yes, we know that when it rains, our service goes out. However, so does yours (several times during several Hurricanes and before a hurricane hit us the cable stopped working). So, if you call here again, I will file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and look into legal forms of getting you to cease and desist. Got that all down?

Yes...

Good. Hand that to you manager and communicate with him/her about this little conversation. I also recommend you quit your job and work for someone who is better able to handle communication between business units, as I assume that by your company having to call me four times leads me to believe. Have a good day miss.

BEEP.

I recorded myself using the microphone on my computer. This conversation is not verbatim because she said more than that. I just hope they get the message.
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