May in NW Indiana came with mist rain and soft rolls of rumbling thunder. Murky grey clouds with subtle flashes just enough to catch traffic attention of early morning school buses.
Tillywillow some made up town in the wake of the mundane suburbs was an escape from 34 years of wanting and waiting for the sweet peace of a humble life. Jessica Anderson needed balance after her partner in life and she separated.
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Make Your Work Skills Grow
Currently after hardly any sleep, organizing resumes and balancing follow up calls on job applications have become a decipline of practice to be mastered. Think of it as a wheel spinning or a bubble popping in the air when you wait on getting a job. It may be that you wanted a new job before you quit an old job and your plan detoured. This can be the case quite often when you are without a job and need a job. You'll hear how difficult this can be to be unemployed and how easier to get a job while you are still working.
When thinking of focusing on the areas of most concern don't forget to look at the big picture. For example you co-workers, managers, and your skills. Here I want to brush on skills from my work experiences in focused areas in hospitality and retail. These two fields of career choices were not what I would have selected coming out of college and its been over ten years since graduation in which I've been emersed in the duties or tasks of cleaning bathrooms on the weekends at theaters and garage from patrons at the movies.
Secondly, wiping down game machines and counters at arcades and sweeping and mopping fast food franchises have been major responsibilities as you plan your career from the bottom up. Thirdly, refilling condiments such as sugar, to ketchup depending on the franchise and or stocking aisles for party supplies in retail have filled any employees work week up as priorities for everyone to accomplish.
Last but not least some areas of keeping a clean and well stocked environment in hospitality and retail can be handled more abundantly with larger areas and more guests to accompany and this takes an array of different measures of speed and teamwork as two skill practices.
In conclusion, appearance is taken in high value of consideration since you are persenting food and drinks or greeting guests or customers with welcoming friendliness and you are the first person they turn to as you work to meet their needs and satisfaction. Changing careers will be easy in these fields since all these duties can be used in all areas of work and will get your foot in the door. Looking for a job can require changes in your attitude and an open mind to taking each day as a new day to learn something new such as a customers name. Your reporting to management or shift supervisors for every little thing is crucial right away if you can and you can if you know whats best and you do. Skills will be sharpened the more you remember from experience and they will bring you job endurance and stamina.
The End
When thinking of focusing on the areas of most concern don't forget to look at the big picture. For example you co-workers, managers, and your skills. Here I want to brush on skills from my work experiences in focused areas in hospitality and retail. These two fields of career choices were not what I would have selected coming out of college and its been over ten years since graduation in which I've been emersed in the duties or tasks of cleaning bathrooms on the weekends at theaters and garage from patrons at the movies.
Secondly, wiping down game machines and counters at arcades and sweeping and mopping fast food franchises have been major responsibilities as you plan your career from the bottom up. Thirdly, refilling condiments such as sugar, to ketchup depending on the franchise and or stocking aisles for party supplies in retail have filled any employees work week up as priorities for everyone to accomplish.
Last but not least some areas of keeping a clean and well stocked environment in hospitality and retail can be handled more abundantly with larger areas and more guests to accompany and this takes an array of different measures of speed and teamwork as two skill practices.
In conclusion, appearance is taken in high value of consideration since you are persenting food and drinks or greeting guests or customers with welcoming friendliness and you are the first person they turn to as you work to meet their needs and satisfaction. Changing careers will be easy in these fields since all these duties can be used in all areas of work and will get your foot in the door. Looking for a job can require changes in your attitude and an open mind to taking each day as a new day to learn something new such as a customers name. Your reporting to management or shift supervisors for every little thing is crucial right away if you can and you can if you know whats best and you do. Skills will be sharpened the more you remember from experience and they will bring you job endurance and stamina.
The End
Monday, June 17, 2013
A New Season for Work
Setting yourself up and out of a trap is quite your responsibility. What is the reason for it? I couldn't tell you and it is worth it. I wanted to talk about the seasons of my jobs. Seasonal jobs mean more interviews and applications to be in. You will feel that that is it most of the time sometimes. You will feel that filling out applications and going to job interviews is your life and it will be with seasonal jobs for some.
You will remember group interviews, and dress codes. You will be very careful how you present yourself and won't realize things you are doing that others will or you know that you are doing it such as comparing pens with the applicant next to you or the different color hair clips or mens ties in the beginning. After ten years or more you will see new observations in the same interview process such as the dreams you have and held for decades! That is key. Those dreams are what got you there at that interview or in that job the way it did at that moment nothing else. Yet thank everything else since the dream is your gift to others.
Over the years my thoughts have been on bugs. Bugs are senseless crawling things that come into your job role and itch and crawl on you. Bugs. They will have you running into your next job sometimes if you don't take care of them soon enough.
You will remember group interviews, and dress codes. You will be very careful how you present yourself and won't realize things you are doing that others will or you know that you are doing it such as comparing pens with the applicant next to you or the different color hair clips or mens ties in the beginning. After ten years or more you will see new observations in the same interview process such as the dreams you have and held for decades! That is key. Those dreams are what got you there at that interview or in that job the way it did at that moment nothing else. Yet thank everything else since the dream is your gift to others.
Over the years my thoughts have been on bugs. Bugs are senseless crawling things that come into your job role and itch and crawl on you. Bugs. They will have you running into your next job sometimes if you don't take care of them soon enough.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Entry Level Hope
When college ended in 2003 I thought that would be the end of me. As I watched all the dorms pass by on my way back to Chicago I wondered what the problem was doing to me. Trying to catch the issues, and fix the issues of destiny sucked. It is an impossible feat and stead of misery and being caught in the middle of it is trouble and you learn along the way that there is no stopping it so don't look for something to blame.
People will learn hopefully of charity. The noise of lies will drown out love if you let it my mom told me. I'm through talking about college. It was over ten years ago this stead of college duties. Don't reinvent the wheel are my piece on advice. Maybe you won't be able to help it and you think you are doing great but once you start, well look at me now typing in a blog how lame.
Remember Eyor the gray donkey ? "It'll never work." He says. Well that was the Vibrant Pooh's best pal and so if you want to be Pooh or E. then remember there colors of connection.
Friday, March 23, 2012
The Importance of an Education
While we stride and stroll we need to rock and roll as well to get into the workforce. An education will bring the journey for you to your knees. The mountains of job applications from the galaxys of employers that orbit your mind need to come home or you will be swept into The Black Hole of unemployment. The class structure brings a team together to get used to team work. The teacher shows us the furture boss similarities. The deck of cards are in your hands. The song House of Cards by Radio Head inspired me to write that last sentence. Don't let your dreams be swept away, since many of them are forgotten along the way, they will still live in you somehow.
While compliments will come for you at the right time and place, and frankness will move you into a more productive day, it is an education that will be inside you and ready to reach for what you need to get you where you need to go to feed your ideas, goals, dreams, and hopes.
Acknowledgings and thanking those people in your life along the way will always be there so it'll never be to late for that. We are strong willed people and an education will break us in the right places while God watches. Books are a good source, people, and places yet only you can drink as you are led to the water.
By
Kathy
Reyna
While compliments will come for you at the right time and place, and frankness will move you into a more productive day, it is an education that will be inside you and ready to reach for what you need to get you where you need to go to feed your ideas, goals, dreams, and hopes.
Acknowledgings and thanking those people in your life along the way will always be there so it'll never be to late for that. We are strong willed people and an education will break us in the right places while God watches. Books are a good source, people, and places yet only you can drink as you are led to the water.
By
Kathy
Reyna
The Skyies the Limit
Sometime in 2003 during my graduation ceromony, two things I listened to were to serve, and that the sky was the limit. Beyond the college years and advice job ads gave me a new lifestyle. Reading the want ads all over the country twisted and turned my resume for years. I blew up my email with resumes to jobs requiring submission of cover letter and resumes. Buying books of stamps to mail out the instructed mailing of resumes and or cover letters became second nature.
Interview articles, videos, and job networking advice on interviews gave my mom and I new wardrobe ideas every year, and thousands of dollars in shoes and uniforms. As you can see the career of change starts at home.
The Skys the Limit
The Skies the Limit
When the last year came for us college students at Indiana University, there was a sense of freedom like nothing that could be imagined by anyone else in the universe. There was electricity in the air that covered the sky June 2003. If it was raining we didn't know and if it was a day of sunshine we didn't care. It was time. From Freshman year to Senior Year students were prepared and trained through courses, tests, papers, and books to launch into the workforce with a career rolled out for us at our feet. No matter what life brings students are able to pick up dust themselves off and continue on a journey of a career path where the skies the limit. We were told that service is number one.
By
Kathy
Reyna
In circles I turn with seasons. If you made it to this part of the blog you will see that writing is obediance and a discipline of practice to choose to do for a focused reader. Mistakes. Mistakes? Okay lets just go over the parts of wholeness. First, organization and to be organized means to have maybe no coffee or other stains on you job application. Organization and neatness could mean cleanliness which is a virtue along with patience and peace. Lets see the connection: When you go into a place of employment to ask for a job, depending on the time in your life you may change your wardrobe, your hair, and maybe your jewelry around but the application for work never changes.
Sometimes you will bite off more than you can chew and so I've been advised to just spit it out. For example, your life may seem big and out of order but it real isn't because you can only do one thing at a time. I read this from a .95 cent pamplet called Acceptance but read what you want. Back to the job application if you are like me you will be sure that the more you hand out the more jobs will pour on you and water your unemployment garden and that will be a job in itself.
What is a job? That is a whole other blog and lets just end this blog saying that filling out a paper copy of a job application can require a lot of information that is always the same: Your full name and high school or GED information, personal or work references which will change sometimes. You'll be asked if you attended a trade school or correspondence school and if you committed a crime. Military service is also a part of the job application.
Then on tiny little lines you will squeeze in the former employers starting with the most present and the dates, addresses, name, salary, position, duties, and reason for leaving each employer. Here you will most likely need to take a small break before starting this section to get a cup of water or a breather then very neatly and small write in the most valueable answers to all these areas of job information requested. On the back side if you don't get a survey or additional paperwork of approval mostly questions about you, you just sign then at the bottom after reading authorization passages which can run longer than you pen or computer time limit before erasing the entire application.
When the last year came for us college students at Indiana University, there was a sense of freedom like nothing that could be imagined by anyone else in the universe. There was electricity in the air that covered the sky June 2003. If it was raining we didn't know and if it was a day of sunshine we didn't care. It was time. From Freshman year to Senior Year students were prepared and trained through courses, tests, papers, and books to launch into the workforce with a career rolled out for us at our feet. No matter what life brings students are able to pick up dust themselves off and continue on a journey of a career path where the skies the limit. We were told that service is number one.
By
Kathy
Reyna
In circles I turn with seasons. If you made it to this part of the blog you will see that writing is obediance and a discipline of practice to choose to do for a focused reader. Mistakes. Mistakes? Okay lets just go over the parts of wholeness. First, organization and to be organized means to have maybe no coffee or other stains on you job application. Organization and neatness could mean cleanliness which is a virtue along with patience and peace. Lets see the connection: When you go into a place of employment to ask for a job, depending on the time in your life you may change your wardrobe, your hair, and maybe your jewelry around but the application for work never changes.
Sometimes you will bite off more than you can chew and so I've been advised to just spit it out. For example, your life may seem big and out of order but it real isn't because you can only do one thing at a time. I read this from a .95 cent pamplet called Acceptance but read what you want. Back to the job application if you are like me you will be sure that the more you hand out the more jobs will pour on you and water your unemployment garden and that will be a job in itself.
What is a job? That is a whole other blog and lets just end this blog saying that filling out a paper copy of a job application can require a lot of information that is always the same: Your full name and high school or GED information, personal or work references which will change sometimes. You'll be asked if you attended a trade school or correspondence school and if you committed a crime. Military service is also a part of the job application.
Then on tiny little lines you will squeeze in the former employers starting with the most present and the dates, addresses, name, salary, position, duties, and reason for leaving each employer. Here you will most likely need to take a small break before starting this section to get a cup of water or a breather then very neatly and small write in the most valueable answers to all these areas of job information requested. On the back side if you don't get a survey or additional paperwork of approval mostly questions about you, you just sign then at the bottom after reading authorization passages which can run longer than you pen or computer time limit before erasing the entire application.
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