I Was Planning

To post a what I plan to do today list-like post, despite having a birthday post as obligatory filler, but I ended up just doing instead.

I’ve sent my more or less complete resume to well over 100 people, and already have possibilities to look at, as well as some surprisingly detailed advice on improving it further.  In doing the e-mails, I finally got tripped up enough by the failings of my address book to do something about it.  The WAB file is over 7 MB in size.  Or was, since now there’s a new one that’s empty.  I had everything divided into multiple folders, which is fine most of the time.  The secondary folders won’t export, so I copied and pasted back into the main folder.  That meant sitting here clicking OK almost 1000 times as it prompted for each one.

The result is 1599 addresses exported to a CSV file, now being edited in Excel to remove known obsolete ones, bounces from resumes I sent out, and duplicates.  Also editing to put names in some that lack them, and may segregate out ones that are not likely to be used.  I’ll combined testing or asking about suspect addresses with my further resume sending.

Then there’s posting the resume online.  I am figuring it for a today and over the weekend thing to get the resume everywhere, tweaked as it seems needed, collect and ponder the possible opening or “call such a recruiter” responses I get, and attack hard Monday, as far as talking to people about specific jobs that rise to the top and so forth.

I also need to run to the store for real today.

Add to that I’d like to hurry with a writing/blogging version of the resume, and still want to do a big double fundraiser issue of CotC, which was supposed to have been timed to help ensure we had enough money for drop dead payments next week, and it’s a hugely busy few days.

Have I mentioned it’s nice to be down to one in diapers?

Posted by on 03/14 at 10:26 AM

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