And so, after a long hiatus from actual content, we now return to our program, already in progress…

As I mentioned last week, I put in 40 hours at the gelato place. This yielded a few things:
1. A renewed hatred for all retail employment
2. A paycheck of all of $250 (gee, that’ll pay my car payment, yay)
3. A complete lack of progress in the job-hunting area due to being too busy scooping fancy ice cream

Needless to say, that was a waste of time and something I shan’t be repeating anytime soon.

Still haven’t heard anything from Closure Medical. Given that they told me it would be 2-4 weeks until I heard anything and it’s been more than four weeks, well, let’s just say I’m not expecting much from this. If I’m wrong I’ll be pleasantly surprised, but otherwise I’m going to assume it’s not going to happen and proceed accordingly.

I have a phone interview on Thursday with Amfine Chemicals in the metropolis of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. They’re looking for an expert in Yokogawa DCS; I’ve had training in it and even spent two weeks at their facility in Georgia taking courses…in 1999. I haven’t used it much since so I don’t have great hopes for this, but who knows? And hey, it’s convenient to both Nashville AND Paducah – boy howdy! (Uh, yeah)

Oh, and I had a phone interview a few weeks ago with Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials in Newark, Delaware, but I haven’t heard anything since. Nothing may come from that, but who knows?

So this week, it’s more applications, more resumes, and looking into short-term positions in both Raleigh and Chicago. A cursory glance at Manpower Technical yielded pretty much nothing, but there’s other services and other possibilities out there. Also, I need to pay the mid-month bills, and verify the exact steps I need to follow to tap into my 401(k). Later this week, we’re going to head over to Six String Cafe to catch The Kennedys, and probably hit one of a couple new restaurants for dinner on Friday. Life goes on!