- @wwabbit fold laundry, while a sippin and a watchin #
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- @wwabbit The Denver oven set to 95. #
- Prepping fo’ another interview @ 2PM - Send the Mojo #
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- @wwabbit Maybe an extra strength can of Woojiwooji? #
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- Finally heading to bed #
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Like Rome, Byzantium, Russia the US will have it’s day. Much like those countries and empires the US is focused on Power and Money, and it forgets about the needs of it’s people. You are all probably wondering what brought this up. Well as many of you know I have been on the job hunt for quite a while when I was out in Los Angeles. I was suppose to get a job at Herbalife, which would have brought me a very nice paycheck, somewhere in the 60,000 to 80,000 area.
Due to circumstances I have left LA and am now in Denver and have been looking at counseling opportunities, much like what I did at Eckerd Youth Alternatives. Not to my surprise they are offering $8.75 - $9.54 /hr at Outward Bound. Clearly people don’t do this for the money. When I worked at Eckerd we were paid for each day that we worked, which was a 24/hr day, and we would work anywhere from 5 days to 21 days straight. There was a lot of personal investment put in, and understandably < 10% of counselors would actually complete their 2 year contract. When we figured out the hourly it came out to be less than $3/hr for a new counselor, as a Senior Counselor you made less than $4/hr.
Where the hell are our priorities when we focus more on things like programming, diets, oil, gaming, Internet, TV, Clothing, etc and just toss our youth aside. I think it’s time we re-evaluate our priorities.
The candidate that can do that will get my vote.
On Fri. July 11th, I will officially be leaving Los Angeles and heading to New York. I will temporarily be staying out on the Island over at my dads. I have already started my job search, and have contacted many of my old acquaintances there. I will be stopping in Denver along the way to visit my sister, her husband and the kids. The trip will take approximately 4 days or so, so I should be arriving in NY on the 15. Based on my budget and time I may swerve North and stop by Raphael’s place up in Buffalo, as of right now will be playing that leg by ear.
If by any chance anyone has any leads in the NY or even Boston area I am all ears. See you all in a few days. Posting will be sparse here to NY. snic snic’. 
A little over a week ago I was give a recommendation to read this book, as I prepared for an interview. In normal circumstances this would be a generally easy read for most people. I think a nice addition for us kinesthetic/visual types would be to have so interactive samples on the CD that came with it. Overall the concepts are pretty easy to pick up, as the book goes through the step by step process of developing and understanding the world of database design, as well as some of it’s history. It covers many of the do’s and don’ts the go into building a complete relational database.
So if you work with databases at all and are looking for a better understanding of how they are built or many of the potential problems that go into DB design; I highly recommend this book.
