I sooooo thought the same thing...

And yes, the postcard is a must have Snowflake item. I'll drink another cup of coffee in the hopes it stifles your competition...






Hey, every little bit counts, right?

Now I have a mental picture of a bunch of people getting their Hitachi Magic Wands and beating people up with them.







(Hey: it could have been worse. I had to delete my initial response.)

Ugh, back in town, back to the job hunt.

I fvcking hate Monster. Just thought I'd mention that.

Goonie, Monster (for all their advertising) seems to be useless to me. When I started looking earlier this year, I saw nothing there for months. And that's wrong, my job expertise is in demand and there are jobs out there. Just not posted on Monster!

Good luck and new job vibes heading your way.

Oddly, I found this job through Monster.

But, it took a lot of time and focus to read through what are the good jobs and what are the bad jobs. For me, I'm not a sales person, but guess what floods the marketing category? Sales jobs. I mean, I could probably do it, but I better understand the framework and enjoy it, and would wear down easily with the sales process, as lucrative as sales can sometimes be. I could tell this company had a clear definition of what it was doing based on its job description for this position. (Wow, someone gets it!) They seem to have a grasp of what their business is and what jobs actually entail, something I appreciate to the fullest and could tell from the advert.

I just checked the job pages with my company, and there's nothing open in OC or LA. I don't know what you're specifically looking for, but if I ever see something that has Morrigoon written all over it, I'll send it to you right away.

To speed the Monster.com process, I opened everything in tabs, went through and immediately closed out the ones where I didn't meet the minimum requirements (even when fairly close to meeting it), read the other descriptions, eliminated those that sounded fishy and/or weren't in the right category for me, and then researched the rest. It made the process pretty simple and quick... the weeding process, anyway.

I figured that I put a lot of time in arranging my resume around the position, I put care and effort into cover letters and presentation - why waste my time with too many positions, possibly blowing all of them from being over-extended.

The last two people we hired were through Monster. Like any system, it is not going to be perfect. If one is in a fairly specialized field/position, then Monster is probably not the answer. We were looking for graphic artist/customer service type positions, so it worked well for us.

Depending on what you do, finding headhunters in your field can be beneficial . But these people are often snakes, so you have to keep a watch on them. Snakes that can help you, but snakes none-the-less.

So I just noticed that the soap/shampoo/conditioner dispenser in the gym shower here at work is branded with the catchy name "The Despenser II".

II?!

The thing is nothing more than a couple of glorified hand lotion pump bottles turned upside down and stuck into a plastic box that's got a couple holes for mounting screws.

What fatal design flaw could possibly have plagued The Dispenser Mark I to have prompted a radical redesign worthy of the "II" moniker, as if to say, "We know there were serious flaws in our legacy product, however rest assured that this all new, 2nd generation design has been meticulously engineered to address all of your shampoo dispensing concerns."

I have used both the Dispenser and the Dispenser II. I didn't see it as so much of an improvement as an aesthetic change.

Or wait.. maybe it was that the Dispenser I and the Dispenser II differentiated how many bottles were inside? Oh crap. I may have to look this one up now...