It Always Happens in 3s

Yup--just what I thought. Another agency. Another lie. Another deer-in-the-headlights reaction to me. Still, I got some good pointers on my resume, and it took me 35 minutes to walk over from 39th and Madison to where I am on 10th.

It always happens in threes--deaths, accidents, fuck-ups, illnesses, even cats. I have three. Two just didn't seem equal. Three, in the words of De La Soul, is a Magic Number!

So, I got the business card. I told Marci (with an "i", no "e") how I constructed my resume based on my former co-worker's suggestion on putting the skills at the top. Since she went on to a $50K job back in March, I'll listen to her. Style is preferential. It IS the computer programs you know. Companies do not want to train. They want to know what you can do and how modern it is. Rachel made me laugh about this yesterday as well. She didn't know what SAP or CRM is.

"It's a vendor database system," I told her, "and not very modern at all."

"Well, I'd never have known that," was her terse reply.

Um, Rach? That's why you work at an EMPLOYMENT agency and not for a top company. Steady work don't mean it's top-of-the-line, pumpkin!

And these people are SUPPOSED TO HELP ME? Please.

I'll stick to careerbuilder, monster, nytimes.com, and contacting companies directly through the internet. Not one of my interviews came from any of these places.

Feh.