Wednesday, February 11, 2009

High Class Opportunities

Holla,

There isn't much happening on the job front today. I currently have a full blown head cold, which results in little to no motivation to search for employment. The cold was a result of too much drinking this weekend and a curious case of conjunctivitis. For those not in the know, conjuncto is the proper name for pink eye. What 28 year old gets pink eye? I don't hang around young children or dig through garbage. At least not yet. Regardless of how it happened, I now wake up in the morning with a bucket of goo dumped on my eyelid. Gross right?

Okay, since I didn't search around today, I'm going to reach into the large storage bin of experiences that I've had in the past few months to write about something. I started searching for jobs using Craigslist. For those that have ever used the website, you will know that it is a melting pot of genuine, well-meaning individuals and some of the lowest elements of the earth. The other day, I saw a posting that was searching for a "Hot midget that is willing to pose nude and looking to party."

Awful. So these are the people that I'm picking and choosing from when I send out my resume. I never know if I'm emailing a real person, a automated porn service, or some wacko that wants me to write erotic literature for him/her.

People will post naked pictures of themselves. They create 'looking for sex' posts in the job section. There are hundreds of scams at any moment in Craigslist.

After several months of searching through the list every day, I think that I have a way of sifting through the garbage to find genuine opportunities. Not one of those opportunities have contacted me about employment, but at least I can find them now.

The search continues...

-Micah

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