O Premium Water

At 11:30 I had an interview with O Premium Waters. They specialize in bottled water delivery services of both the bigger 5gallon and smaller sports bottles. Now they are introducing a new product designed to replace the old fashioned water cooler which at least sounds like a really cool idea. Also they are getting into the water softener and reverse osmosis business.

They started these pushes a couple of months ago and are starting to run dry of existing customers to use as leads so have decided to start a telemarketing room. They need someone to build this room from the ground up and be able to support a 15 member sales team.

Here is the hitch. This whole thing came up because one of my friends was having lunch with their head salesman on Thursday and he expressed dissatisfaction with the girl that they were planning on hiring for this new position. Mike mentioned my name and I got the interview yesterday. Unfortunately, they may have already offered the position to the other person which means that even if they like me better, which both of my interviewers including the owner of the company said that they did, everyones hands might be tied.

They said that they would contact me yesterday and make me an offer one way or the other but I didn’t hear anything. So here is hoping that I hear something today, maybe I will call and find something out myself. Keep praying for this one it would be close and a pay increase.

Heroes and Dogpark

Well I applied for a couple of finance jobs today. They were offered through the same recruitment office so I should hear back from that office within 48 hours according to their posting. That is about all on the job front so far today.

I took Java to the dog park. Yesterday she was so full of energy and was so eager to chase after the ball I was throwing that it seemed fitting. She had a good time with the other dogs as always and I got a Starbucks afterwards.

Then I watched Heroes. Good stuff. So far this year there has seemed like they were trying too hard to pull the multiple story lines along rather than having stories that you could tell were interwoven. I think this might be the turning point where the stories start converging and it becomes sweetness. Not to give anything away but I had a bad feeling that ending was coming for a while now. Here is hoping that the writers end their strike and the production companies stop being a bunch of greedy idiots and we don’t lose episodes for the next half of the season.

Post from Yesterday

Well yesterday was a pretty good day. I found a job opening that would be really great working at the Alliance Defense Fund as a production manager. Sure it would be a drive, but I could end the day knowing that on some small level I contributed to good of all mankind. No seriously, they do a lot of good stuff. I also applied for a media position at a hospital which I guess also does good work or something.

Robert Watson came over around lunch time and we played some rocket race in Halo 3. We actually won one game and came really close on a couple of others, if you have a bungie.net account and really care, you can sign in and see the games listed under my handle which is bloodymidget.

Then my friend Mike Branton treated me to a movie. We were limited on the time frame and so chose Hitman. It looked like it had some potential but although the main actor pulled off the look of the character from the game, the story lacked continuity. There were no transition scenes. One scene they would be in Moscow and the next in St Petersburg without showing their mode of transport or even bringing it up in dialogue. That led to it seeming rather choppy and despite some really cool action sequences, it just really bothered me. One other thing that bothered me was the titles on the screen showing where they are. I know that this is a normal thing to include on screen and usually it does help, but it is also normally done in a font size that is small, discreet and somewhat classy. Putting size 18 Times New Roman with a giant margin from the side is the exact opposite of all those things so that bothered me as well. So did the insult that they would put Moscow - Russia as though we didn’t know what country Moscow is in or what country London is in, come on seriously. Overall I would give the movie a 5.5 out of 10 and say don’t bother to see it.

All in all it was a good day. The highschool kids came over for small group and we sort of recapped the year and talked about what we want to cover the next couple of weeks and next semester.

Unemployed

So last Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, I got downsized. Brought into the office of the CEO and told, “you do a great job and everything you have done has been excellent, but we are eliminating your position.” What a nice Thanksgiving day gift.

Now I am trying really hard to have a good attitude about this, but seriously, three weeks ago they were asking me about my long term plans to see if they could write me into the two and three year goals for the company! How does it go from one extreme to the other so fast without warning?

I applied for unemployment yesterday and have been blanketing the internet with my resume and applications. My friends have been great for advice and support and of course Erin has been amazing through this past week as well. If you think of us pray for us. Or if you can spare two dimes send them our way it would be most appreciated.