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[TakeAStepBack]

I got an interview with a recruiter for a better position this morning. The weird part ism, i didn't even apply. She found me on linkedIn and I sent her my resume in an email response 20 minutes apart from her initial email and now i have an interview this week.

it's crazy. For the last almost four years Ive sent out hundreds of resumes, applications, etc... without a single interview or even return message that wasn't something like, "sorry, but you suck so..."

Here's hoping it really is for a better opportunity and most important of all, it brings me more fiat money.

[elder]

This is how things happen. Always expect the unexpected.
Good luck, knock em dead!

[MeOmYo]

good luck!

[jnjn]

[Deadshow Dan]

good luck!

Good to know others are helping you!

[robberry]

I received a call I couldn't say no to last week. Awaiting for the time and date.

[foo]

[Tim the Beek]

Good luck, Brehm! I hope they offer you a cushy gig with piles of shit tickets...

[sarah b.]

Rock it!

[TakeAStepBack]

Tomorrow is the interview. Pretty unreal that i didn't even try for this.

I hope it is the beginning of me bringing my four year old day dream to fruition and telling my current employer to go fuck themself - twice.

[Terrapin Station]

Suite.

I know how much you want out of that shit hole job you have now and hate the boss bitch.

Fingers crossed for ya brah.

[TakeAStepBack]

Thanks, brah.

It would be an epcot way to end July. Right int he middle of a construction project that the IT manager that doesn't know how to manage and leans on me too.

It's like the ultimate in "go f&%k yourself."

Fingers crossed, freddy.

I want more fiat paper too.

[jnjn]

good luck today tasb!!!

[TEO]

Whoo-hoo, time to up the "Lap Dance."

[TakeAStepBack]

[Tim the Beek]

Knock 'em dead, TASB! Not all literal like though...

[TakeAStepBack]

Thanks, Tim. I'll do my absolute best to avoid violence at the interview. You know how us classical liberal, gun proponents are though. Always hair trigger-ish.

[Lostsailr]

Nice! onward and upward TASB.

[Spidergawd]

Good luck man!!

[nancykind]

good luck!

[TakeAStepBack]

My career is over. I just have this job now. After almost ten years in this field, being that in the hight of the financial crisis I took a "coordinator" position, which was the only offering at the time, instead of a management position, from which I came. I am now starting over within my field.

Corrdinator is a corporate word play used to have a manager without the title and with much less pay. yet, involves and is described as managing budgets, project management, asset management and so on (within my field).

So, after getting the list of shit i already knew about my predicament, it is unlikely I will find myself back where I should be. That's OK though, when i've finally had enough, there is always a rampage to embark on in this crumbling xociety.

Congrats on my special day.

KYS. DIAF, JOTCOM, etc.....

[deadheadskier]

before you JOTCOM, could you explain what's going on. New job? Same old job? Que es "starting over"?

whatever the case, don't give up broseph

[TEO]

If you are not self-employed is there really a difference between career and job other than feel good title?

[TakeAStepBack]

Yes, there is. It's called fiat money and the ability to excel in a field. I can not excel without an act of god because the difference between coordinator and manager, is apparently all the difference in the corporate world. Coordinator doesn't mean anything. It means fucking do it. Whether it is managing a project, managing a budget or otherwise.

They just say "can you coordinate that?"

Instead of manage it and from a legal standpoint, it is in bounds of fair play.

Same job, DHS. There is very little chance for me to ever re-attain management titling as of now because I am a coordinator.

It's all good. When the last straw falls, i will simply go off on a rage and whoever ends up in the path of that well....we see what happens when you corner someone for too long.

[TEO]

That is the suck. Sorry you were backed into that corner.

Always at ready to have your back when you bust loose.

[capt_morgan]

im sorry dave

[Tim the Beek]

Sorry to hear this Dave. Keep tryin' though...you never know what might happen.

Or, it might be a motivator to get out of the rat race and find a different path...

[TakeAStepBack]

Or it might mean Ive wasted ten years of time and being stuck Im seeing fewer options except to lose my fucking cool. Nobody wants that to happen. Least of all the current fucktards I work for/with.

Time will tell this tale. But Im at my last straw on this. After this many years of "trying" and "not giving up" Im in no frame of mind to keep pushing this "try more" envelope. 4 years of "trying" just to get back on track and Im done with it. Literally. Im fucking done with it.

Saying the wrong thing to me at this place could end disastrously.

[Tim the Beek]

I know you're pissed, and I get it, but it ain't worth ruining your life over. Too much good stuff in life, and to many people who love you to do that.

Visiting friends in prison sucks. I know this from personal experience.

Besides, in your heart, I think you want to be somewhere else, doing something else anyway. And that, I'm coming to learn, is the real measure of success.

Love you, brother!

[deadheadskier]

Bummer you are going through this, but it happens to all of us.

If I can say only one thing, having a defeatist attitude is an insult to your intelligence. It's okay to be pissed, but don't let the anger defeat you. You're way too smart for that.

[Karen]

Bummer you are going through this, but it happens to all of us.

If I can say only one thing, having a defeatist attitude is an insult to your intelligence. It's okay to be pissed, but don't let the anger defeat you. You're way too smart for that.

This.


Hope tomorrow is a better day!

[TakeAStepBack]

Unfortunately, it will not be a better day. It will be the same day Ive lived over and over for 4 years. I could really give a fuck at this point. Call it defeatist or whatever, there comes a point of no return on things and Ive reached that point with this.

[MeOmYo]

[deadheadskier]

Did the USA give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

No

[TakeAStepBack]

The japanese bombed pearl harbor.

[williscat2000]

_{but we kicked both of their asses!! NEVER SURRENDER}

[deadheadskier]

not according to Bluto

[Java Time]

I feel your pain...I am in the same position of sorts.

Don't stop looking for opportunity...at least with hope there are times where there is light to break up the doom and gloom.

[TakeAStepBack]

Well, Bluto is sadly mistaken. Not that it really matters.

[Tim the Beek]

Did the USA give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

No

[TEO]

May you soon have more lightening in the hand.

[deadheadskier]

He may have had his facts screwed up, but motivationally he was spot on

[Tim the Beek]

Dave, please don't forget that there's far more important stuff to life than work/career.

[TakeAStepBack]

That's rather relative, Tim.

[Tim the Beek]

I don't see it that way.

'sides, when stuff starts to unravel, what good is a job gonna be, really?

[KrisNYG]

Hang in there TASB.

[china cat]

Ok, Listen up, TASB



You are not gonna let this ruin you. Adversity introduces us to ourselves and yourself is bigger, smarter, stronger than this. We're gonna support you in your bad week and frustration 'cause everyone goes through it, but then we're gonna help you turn that attitude on it's ass and watch you turn things around.

[Joker]

I got nothing but fool comments but I'm not going to be the cause of another rampage


Stay strong bro

[sarah b.]

Figure out what you love to do and find a way to make it what you do for a living. I just retrained for a new career and am thrilled to start at the bottom. Never too late for more school.

[TakeAStepBack]

I don't think the concept of all fucking done is really going to catch on here.

This is not a new problem. This is not a passing frustration. This is not a bad day or week. This is me at my absolute end with this situation. There is no turning it back. there is no more keep trying.


Have you ever seen a lion at the zoo that has been there for a while? Yes?
Now imagine that same lion being prodded daily for the amusement of others. You think given the chance that lion would not rip someone's head clean off and shit down a neck?

I am not the garnish. I am the caged lion.