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April Retrospective

I had four goals for April. I did okay this month, but not as well as I wanted:

Finish cleaning up my resume. I got everything translated over to xmlresume and hacked up the XSL to add the sections and formatting that I wanted, and I did enough editing so that I had something [...]

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Need Focus, Badly

To provide a bit of structure for my time off, I’ve thought about a few things that I’d like to achieve before I need to seriously think about a new job. Some of my goals for the next month:

Finish cleaning up my resume.  I haven’t had a real resume for years, and since I always [...]

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Unemployment, Day 2

Let’s try one journal-style today…
This morning was a little reminder of how easy it would be to squander my time off.  Start off blog surfing over a few cups of coffee, followed by checking out a bunch of the shiny WordPress toys and options, and then getting embroiled in a discussion with a housemate, and [...]

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Officially Unemployed…Now What?

Yesterday was my last day at Vanu. I jumped without a new job or really even much of a career plan beyond “stop doing this NOW,” so it looks like I’m going to have some long, uninterrupted free time for the first time since graduating from high school.  It’s a bit of a scary place [...]

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