This isn’t exactly what I had in mind.

I failed to find a job in Portland, I lost my cushy spot, and I’ve picked up life at home right where I left off when I was 18.  It’s pretty much the same, except that now if I want to sneak dad’s beers after he falls asleep it happens shortly after Jeopardy.  Oh yeah, and my bedroom is also a storage closet.

If you stare at that poster over the head of my bed for long enough you’ll look a lot like a stoned sixteen-year-old me.  There’s also a nice watercolor print that Mom put up next to my Superbowl XXXI Packer’s poster when Grandma came and stayed here 3 years ago.

There’s no place like home.

Unemployment day 10,392,649: An open letter.

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That’s life.


Last week was a whirlwind.  A number of good things came to me all at once, and no sooner than they had appeared I was watching them fold one by one.  Sometimes you are just soaring through the air with double dolphins, and other times you crash your robot unicorn into a fiery death.  That’s life.

I had some serious problems making numbers at my new new job and fired myself on the second day of my three day trial period.  Right now I’m pretty much right where I left off two weeks ago; unemployed and thinking about my next move. It sucks not being able to stay at a job long enough to get comfortable with it, but I suppose that’s what I get for taking the kind of unskilled work they give people who make parole.

Last week during an uncommon and uncomfortable fit of sanity I realized how much time I’ve wasted in the last couple of months.  In this moment of clarity I instantly started writing and sketching up a series of new journal entries about how my time has been spent, and I’m proud to say to you today that I am now discovering,

More soon.

Employment Day 1

Bike broke on the way in to work. Had to carry it across the Morrison bridge, contemplated throwing it over the side, then contemplated jumping off.  Walked all afternoon for work.  No bus money at the end of the day, and no bike to ride. Walked four miles to get home.


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I’m working with some really cool people, but my future in flier and poster distribution is uncertain.  I still haven’t met the boss yet, but every person I’ve talked to so far has told me that the boss is verbally abusive.  Not your run of the mill work related shouting, it sounds like he’s a got a huge problem with controlling his emotions.

I haven’t witnessed this first hand, but I have no patience for verbal abuse.  I’m currently in search of a less hostile work environment before it comes to a very explosive word fight.   Drafting up a cover letter and emailing it off tonight.

Domain name expiration

My domain name and my WordPress domain mapping privileges are about three weeks away from expiring. I’m at a crossroads.  Keep my boring, easily identifiable domain name, or change it up.  This decision must be weighed heavily.

Pros

  • There are four or five other people hogging up my name on the internet.  Changing my domain could improve my SEO at little to no extra cost, or at least make me more identifiable in a sea of ordinary Alex Peters’.
  • alexgoodsandwich.com is available.
  • It could make me less identifiable to online identity thieves, perverts, hypercritical HR ladies and ex-girlfriends.

Cons

  • I could be harder to find for the five people who read this every day (which is actually a gross under-exaggeration, that number has spiked dramatically in the last month or so and if you’ve been lurking I really appreciate it. Thank you!)
  • Changing my domain name could potentially alter an entire course of events which were meant to take place in the future, and as a consequence I could later find out that I’m actually a transsexual prostitute from Quebec who had his/her/my memory replaced like in Total Recall.

Thoughts? Domain name suggestions? Other unforeseen consequences or benefits of changing my domain name?  Hit me.

Unemployment Day 82: The Digital Keychain

This list is a compilation of every social media site I’ve ever used.  After reviewing this list I realized that I’m still missing a few sites.  I have no idea how to feel about this, but here it is.

Unemployment Day 79: is it okay to drink “day old coffee”?