No Jinxing

To prevent jinxing myself, I've decided to not mention any interviews or whatnot I get to anyone. The next time you'll hear any news from me in regards to job hunting is if I get a job offer.

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Tired of...

This is a little sad to say. But with all the cover letter writing and email writing I think I'm starting to get tired of writing. I mean it's not surprisingly that I don't like writing in the first place. English was never my favorite subject and writing personal statements of any kind always gives me a headache. I remember how I stressed so much when taking English R1A and barely made it through with like a B or something.

But personal writing is different. Like emails, letters, postcards, cards, yearbooks. Oh man yearbooks. I was soooo good at writing loooooooong entries in yearbooks. Could fill up a whole insert.

But right now? Right now I don't even feel like writing emails anymore. I don't want to open up another cover letter and reword things for new jobs. I don't mind looking for jobs. I don't mind submitting my resume since I don't have to actually open my resume. But I just don't want to write anymore.

Yargh. How sad is that?

Reality

Job hunting and just communicating with certain organizations has made me realize just how much I dislike reality.

Maybe I just have high expectations of people or something, but I feel that one should always follow the 說到做到 attitude. After sending in so many resumes and cover letters, I've learned to not expect responses from everyone. But if you tell me you are going to contact me within a certain time period, I expect to be contacted by that time period. It shouldn't matter how important I am to your organization. You could be rejecting me for all I care, but please follow what you say and do it.

I hope people realize that the best advertisement for anything is through word of mouth. And everything you say or do leaves a lasting impression. By not following your word you leave me with a bad impression. I understand that the economy is bad and you probably have more applicants that usual but that is not an excuse. If you can't do what you say, then just don't say it.

And this just goes for all situations, not just job hunting. If you tell someone you are going to do something, do it, especially if you give yourself a timeline. This is your own word. No one is forcing you to do what you say you are going to do. If you can't follow your own word, how can you expect people to trust you to follow theirs?

All of this frustration makes me want to form my own company and show people how things should be done. I'll admit, nobody is perfect. I don't always make my own deadlines, but I will still get the work done even if it is late. I don't expect everyone to make all their deadlines, but it's the constant lateness or simply not doing it that bothers me.

But this is reality. And reality sucks.

Burned Out

So I wrote an entry similar to this last week but then the internet died and the entry disappeared. And now I find myself in that state again where I want to write the entry again.

I'm tired. Exhausted. And I think it's all mental.

Writing and sending cover letters can be so draining. Scrolling through job listings can be so tiring. I'm tired of having to be stressing about this every week. And it's sad that I'm feeling burned out each week. It might be due to the fact that I have limited internet so feel the need to take advantage of the times I do have internet and do hardcore job hunting/applying.

But yea...I'm super tired.

New Template

So I finally got rid of that ugly template. Not sure if I like this new one yet. It looks cool and all, but I don't know if it really matches the writing. We'll see.

Maybe now that I've changed the template I'll write more here. I'll have to admit I couldn't stand writing in such an ugly looking blog. Haha.

Of course...I also have to remember the things I want to write here. I seem to always forget once I open the new post page. -_-

I kind of made this blog just because I felt like making another blog with blogger. But now that I've made it I don't really know what I want to write here. Only one person knows about this blog right now. I figured I'd make it public once I actually have stuff in here. I guess I could write about things I'm doing in Taiwan right now but for some reason it doesn't seem like it's worthy of this blog.


Hm, so what exactly will this blog be about? I guess we'll just see as time passes. Right now I'm blogging as an unemployed (sad) college graduate. My very original plan was to take a year off from school and work before heading back to graduate school. Then while I was researching jobs, I thought about taking two years off instead (one year in the US, one year in Taiwan). But with the job market right now, I think one year off is sufficient.

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So the internet kinda died on me when I was writing this. And now that it's been like 2 days, I don't remember where my thoughts were heading. So I'll just post this.

First Entry!

So since I've been coming back here to read my subscriptions, I figured I might as well make another blog here. My first blog here was a short-term one [only about study abroad experience] so I guess I'll make another short-term one that will describe my experience while on break from being a student [granted, i get into graduate school and all].


So, I'm all graduated now. Whoopee. Haha..not really. It's been a month and a half since I walked. What have I done during that time? Gotta say it has been a rollercoaster ride. Had a good friend come visit for almost 3 weeks. Had a mental breakdown for 2-3 days. And continually on a job hunt which at this point has reached a dead end. Why? Because I'm now out of the country, on a different vacation.


Yep, I'm back in Taiwan again. Kind of ambivalent about being here right now. I pretty much come back like twice a year so it's pretty much been routine now. I guess coming back this time was just bad timing in the sense that if I hadn't already booked this trip, I might already have a job. Oh well. Must not think that way. I guess. Haha.

It's hard to summarize all that has happened before Taiwan so I guess this hiatus blog will just have to begin with my trip to Taiwan. But the time before that was definitely something. I just don't have the memory capacity in my mind to be able to recap it all. xP

It's been day two in Taiwan. I am once again reunited with my mom and lil bro who I haven't seen since April when I went back to Taiwan for my grandfather's funeral. Mm...don't really know what to say now since I've already written emails and whatnot. I guess I'll actually make updates about life starting tomorrow.

Toots for now! xP

Oh yes, Happy Independence Day America!