The Market for Something to Believe in is Infinite

Sometimes, friends send me messages about their jobs/employment and this one really hit home for me. It clearly articulates why I am loving my new job and think it was a true blessing in disguise to have been let go from my last job. It was rough to be in limbo and not have a job for those few months but it really has turned out for the best.

It's hard to stay motivated, no matter how much you like the work you are doing, if you really hate the people you're doing it for and secretly wish for everything to implode.

I'd say in my case it was less loving the work but loving my coworkers and the professional relationships we had developed.

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Little Boxes Made of Ticky Tacky

So, as some of you may know I landed a new job and start tomorrow at 9am (I'll post about it later no promises). And since I am staying in San Diego for the foreseeable future I had to find a new place to live, which means MOVING. I found a lovely 1 bedroom apartment in Ocean Beach (which was a couple minute drive before). AND as many of you know packing/moving is not high up on my list of favorite things to do soo.... yay: new place in a great area, bleh: everything related to getting there.

my life in boxes

I have so much crap and I have moved every year since 2004. I always say to myself that I am going to purge as I pack or unpack but it never seems to happen. This go round I was able to make some progress on getting rid of things, but I am getting down to the wire and I am sort of in the mode of just throw it in a box/bag/car/anything and get it to the new place. I am hoping to actually sort out a lot of it once I am there but I fear it will turn into the same thoughts of, "this place looks messy, let me shove things into every crevice and hide it all so that I don't look like a slob."

I have packed up most of my things and they are all labeled and sorted. These are the visible and highly used items like dishes, small electrics, desk accessories, books, entertainment, decorative items etc. However, I am now getting to the back of the closet, under the bed type items which leave me wondering one, if not all, of the following things:

1. I own this?
2. Why didn't I shred and throw away all of these snail mail credit card offers?
3. Ohhh, there you are! 
4. Gross.
5. Erin, why on god's green earth...? just why? 

I have the rest of tonight (but I already started drinking a nightcap sooo...), tomorrow night and Friday night to get everything ready to go. Then I move on Sunday (Saturday is a fun detour of brewery tours for Michael's birthday/THE RAPTURE). 

Though my postings are always sparse at best, I may be off the interwebs for a bit with settling in to the new job, moving etc. But I'll be back soon with exciting posts on topics like (again no promises): 

• Things my roommate left behind
• Sad Keanu visits my old apartment complex
• One word: newjob
• Livin' right near da beach boy-eeee!
• Viva Las Vegas

For Your Consideration: Me

I had a job interview today. It went quite well (though I always think that). I was told that I am well spoken and interview well which is encouraging. My biggest worry with the position I interviewed for is that it would be in a slightly different field than what most of my experience is in. It is super exciting to think that I would get a ton of on the job training in a whole new arena and be able to expand my knowledge etc etc, but would this paint me into a corner that I have no idea if I want to be in... bleh. I am probably over thinking this and just need to air it out over lunch/dinner with some of my professional colleagues so I can wrap my head around all the factors. There are a bunch of environmental ones too - like location of the job, timeline for hire, my living situation, if I will implode, does the world really end in 2012, would moving away for a couple months until the "right" thing shows up in SD/LA destroy my will to live as I can't go a couple days without getting in a fight with my dad, what about those billboards for judgement day on May 21st etc etc...

I think the jumbled nature of that paragraph just goes to show that I need to take a step back, breathe, write down the pluses and minuses and what considerations need to be planned for etc before I can really say one way or the other.

Below is a picture of me, post interview haze style. I had my eyebrows waxed yesterday. I think they turned out nice.

me today

At the Box

Finding that shaded region is what I try to do everyday at work

Cocain Peppers

I wonder who didn't report the cocaine in their peppers? (ARTICLE)


Also, I still cannot find a job. I am very discouraged. I have started to apply to things that are not on the career path I really want to be on.