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[bamadude]

We just put lettuce and cabbage in the garden and bell peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, oregano, dill, basil and thyme in the greenhouse. We have more to plant today.

Nice salad bar.

 

[tnspursfan09]

Maddy and Draven digging for rolly pollies. Maddy has a little house (terrarium) for them.

 

[tnspursfan09]

Forgot the pic.

 

[vehve]

Deb, if you truly want a job, the smaller companies could be easier to get to someone who understands who they're hiring. With the bigger companies, you run through a couple of automated steps at first, before the HR person even reads it... optimizing your resume to appeal to those automated steps will greatly improve your chances of getting hired. The third way is to do some background work and dig out an e-mail address to someone who's in a position to hire people, and approach them directly.

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, if you truly want a job, the smaller companies could be easier to get to someone who understands who they're hiring. With the bigger companies, you run through a couple of automated steps at first, before the HR person even reads it... optimizing your resume to appeal to those automated steps will greatly improve your chances of getting hired. The third way is to do some background work and dig out an e-mail address to someone who's in a position to hire people, and approach them directly.

Preaching to the Choir here. So far I haven't been required to do an online application. I worked through Contract companies from 1980 on. Once you get a rep with them they handle the leg work.

What I want to do is start a small service style business. Bidding on small projects and working them till they are done. The only way to get consistent work is to offer it online.

deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

And there are NO MORE CHICKENS IN MY HOUSE!!!! It hit 59 here today, it was lovely, and I was sweating. I did manage to dig the snow and pound the ice out from the door to the hoop house out, and get rid of the roosters to its wet and muddy interior!

Also one of my two beehives survived the winter...

Life's looking up. I still have snow most places, and a lot of it in some places, but the thing that melted the fastest was around the septic tank. It's been clear for about 2 weeks now. Today I saw the start of dandelions in that area!!! Spring is here!

Girl duck got a few eggs this morning, all but 3 of what I had. She didn't really make a nest to lay this morning, just laid in the hay, but this afternoon I saw her in there rotating the eggs. I'm hopeful that this crazy plan might work. I did find some ducks about an hour north of here in the Uncle Henry's but they haven't responded to me, yet, and I'm cautiously optimistic about girl duck brooding.

And I made some amazing cinnamon swirl bread this morning that is beyond delicious.

I got a new "rental" car yesterday, and it's free, and it doesn't have a shifter to the right of the driver's seat (it's instead on the steering column) and I am so much more comfortable in that because it doesn't feel like I'm still driving my manual transmission.

Sure makes up for the last week of crap life's thrown at me.

 

[vehve]

Deb, yup, online presence is what you need to start with. Anything new on the writing front, by the way?

SCG, must be nice to get the poultry outside. I've never driven a car with the shifter on the wheel, unless you count flappy paddle gearboxes.

 

[vehve]

Oh, and I hope the duck plan works.

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, yup, online presence is what you need to start with. Anything new on the writing front, by the way?

SCG, must be nice to get the poultry outside. I've never driven a car with the shifter on the wheel, unless you count flappy paddle gearboxes.

Writing is going .... they just ventured into an abandoned alien space station.... Mwuaahahahah....

deb

 

[vehve]

Deb, sounds ominous... reminds me of an old computer game, the dig.