putting together my post-ecuador life
it's officially a month since i got back to ontario leaving behind the mountains and smells of b.c. and hammering the final nail in the coffin of my internship in ecuador.
so far life has progressed at a rather leisurely pace since then - there has been progress on a few fronts - i managed to address my mom's landscaping needs by planting and manicuring some of the beds around the front and side of her house and i placed a few stones and things around for ambience... i also did some painting for my mom and sister (the fumes eventually made me a little iffy and gave me a dull headache-like dizzyness that was none too fun) and wrestled with my brother's newish (one year old) dog that is shaped like a sectional and produces enough dog saliva to irrigate saskatchewan. eventually i headed off to london (ontario) where christine is holed up in a charming little flat just to the west of downtown. i spend most of my time checking job sites and crafting emails or resumes or cover letters in the hopes of landing the big one.
it's may and there are a number of jobs out there but they're mostly directed at students and require that one is heading back to school in the fall. as i've already had one of these jobs anyway (kingston millenium - that's how they spell it - project, building a website and such *the project was called biotech kingston) and don't plan on returning to studies in the fall anyway i'm not suitable for such opportunities. what i'm thinking at the moment is that most available jobs in my field right now are dependent upon the funds offered up by the gov - why hire for keeps when you can float a summer position that's basically covered by a series of federal grants. that means that i'm in the lurch trying to plan my next move, trying to guess when the flood of these positions comes to a close and they begin with the real hiring of live bodies.
the position in ottawa with friends of the earth international is appearing to be a dead end but i am still clinging to hope. i sent out an email today, the one week anniversary of the closing date for applications, spelling out my skills and abilities and asking to be considered and hoping that they liked my resume blah, blah, blah... reading over the posting it does appear that i'd be a good fit with the group but i might not have the goods for an interview... we'll see.
i was going to phone them but they had gone out of their way to state that phone calls regarding the job were not appreciated so i typed up my missive instead. i fretted over the address at the beginning of the email, oscillating between hello and hi for a few minutes (i went with hi) - both seemed rather stiff but i wasn't about to go writing down dear or some kind of derivative... is there a protocol on that sort of thing?
so now i'm gonna get started (again) on a letter for a newspaper - probably the whig - detailing my experiences in ecuador and appealing for people to give CIDA internships a try. i was approached, electronically that is, by someone who's compiling different web journals or blogs by expats for a website. i told him i would love to have my site included in his listing and would provide any kind of info or help he needed to get the site up and running (should be good to go in about a month or so... i'll post the info here when it goes live).
so far life has progressed at a rather leisurely pace since then - there has been progress on a few fronts - i managed to address my mom's landscaping needs by planting and manicuring some of the beds around the front and side of her house and i placed a few stones and things around for ambience... i also did some painting for my mom and sister (the fumes eventually made me a little iffy and gave me a dull headache-like dizzyness that was none too fun) and wrestled with my brother's newish (one year old) dog that is shaped like a sectional and produces enough dog saliva to irrigate saskatchewan. eventually i headed off to london (ontario) where christine is holed up in a charming little flat just to the west of downtown. i spend most of my time checking job sites and crafting emails or resumes or cover letters in the hopes of landing the big one.
it's may and there are a number of jobs out there but they're mostly directed at students and require that one is heading back to school in the fall. as i've already had one of these jobs anyway (kingston millenium - that's how they spell it - project, building a website and such *the project was called biotech kingston) and don't plan on returning to studies in the fall anyway i'm not suitable for such opportunities. what i'm thinking at the moment is that most available jobs in my field right now are dependent upon the funds offered up by the gov - why hire for keeps when you can float a summer position that's basically covered by a series of federal grants. that means that i'm in the lurch trying to plan my next move, trying to guess when the flood of these positions comes to a close and they begin with the real hiring of live bodies.
the position in ottawa with friends of the earth international is appearing to be a dead end but i am still clinging to hope. i sent out an email today, the one week anniversary of the closing date for applications, spelling out my skills and abilities and asking to be considered and hoping that they liked my resume blah, blah, blah... reading over the posting it does appear that i'd be a good fit with the group but i might not have the goods for an interview... we'll see.
i was going to phone them but they had gone out of their way to state that phone calls regarding the job were not appreciated so i typed up my missive instead. i fretted over the address at the beginning of the email, oscillating between hello and hi for a few minutes (i went with hi) - both seemed rather stiff but i wasn't about to go writing down dear or some kind of derivative... is there a protocol on that sort of thing?
so now i'm gonna get started (again) on a letter for a newspaper - probably the whig - detailing my experiences in ecuador and appealing for people to give CIDA internships a try. i was approached, electronically that is, by someone who's compiling different web journals or blogs by expats for a website. i told him i would love to have my site included in his listing and would provide any kind of info or help he needed to get the site up and running (should be good to go in about a month or so... i'll post the info here when it goes live).
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