For the last handful of years, I have been rooting for the Indianapolis Colts to reach and conquer the Super Bowl. Yeah, I’m technically (well, at least loosely) a San Fran Fan, but… Well, they suck, and they don’t deserve to win. Manning and the Colts, however, do. Which is why I have been pulling for them. They have been playing a great brand of fast-moving, high-powered football rather effectively the last few years. Yes, they’ve been plagued by the Playoff Choke®, but if they could only overcome that, I thought… And this year, they did. It just so happens that it coincided with their worst offensive year in the last 3, too. Go figure.

And what an exciting game to watch, to. Go freakin’ Colts! I mean, they were down 21-3. 21-3, y’all. And they came back to win it! They didn’t have ONE LEAD the WHOLE GAME, until exactly 59 minutes into the fray. I don’t hate the Pats, but MAN did I almost hate them for the last couple of years. Sweet revenge then, watching them lose to the Colts in the AFC Championship.



We’re Interested in your Resumé
So last week I posted my resumé to both monster.com and careerbuilder.com. I have gotten a number of hits, a few handfuls of emails, and even a phone call or two. Nice. Except for one damn thing. All of the emails and calls have this or something like this in them: “...in the Inland Empire Area.” Not so nice.

For those that don’t know, the Inland Empire (IE) is my So Cal area. Which by and large sucks large circular objects often found on donkeys. What makes this very irritating is that I have put on both sites in my preferences that my target locale is Eureka, CA, not this place. I guess to some extent I’m happy that I have gotten some interest, I just wish it was from people in the right area.

Monster.com seems to have more job listings in that area, so I’ll probably concentrate on that website more so than careerbuilder. But both will be maintained.



...Your Resumé that looks kinda Crappy
What I found depressing about both sites was the formats for uploaded resumés. Microsuck Word 97 or later. What? No pdf support? Are you freaking joking? And believe me, both do a wonderful job of farcing up my formatting, AFTER Word had done the same. See, I did it in Pages because even though that program is not as polished as Word, it is typically a LOT easier to get done the things I need to accomplish. In fact, this blog is typed in Pages, then copied to the blog.

So I had to convert it to Word. Which is a bit like asking a monkey with no arms high on crack, locked in a padded room with only a toothbrush and bananas, to paint the Mona Lisa. In under an hour. And, those are about the results I both got and expected. So then I had to re-work the formatting to get the desired result; a real P.I.T.A. That reminded me of exactly WHY it was I hate using M$ Word to do anything but type a sentence or two.

After spending some time cleaning up monkey feces, I aimed to load this thing to the sites. And I did. And it sucked. I mean, why is it that I have to use Word, again? You see, they STRIP the formatting anyways. So you get text. Plain…. Text. So I did all that work so that I could REFORMAT it again, so that it would look semi-presentable in text-only. To their (slight) credit, monster does do a better job with it than careerbuilder, which is to say that they sucked slightly less.

So the whole Microsuck Word thing was basically to piss people off. Because they could have just supported pdf and the formatting would be left alone, and the text could still be searchable or whatever. Maybe I should apply for CEO of these sites. Sheesh.



Peace.
I really couldn’t come up with a proper ending here. And it was already getting long. So this is it.

Peace.

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