unemployment vs unhappy employment

Job Mining

I hate job mining! It's like, every friggin company is looking for a candidate who has an experience of minimum 2 years. Man where's everyone getting their experiences from? Where do they start working to become adequate enough!?! URGG, I'M SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW. I have been in a "trainee" program for a year, so I definitely do not wanna start over. Yet, I have to change my area of expertise from sales to HR.. so it seems like I will be starting over in a sense. But hopefully wont last for a year. It's just really frustrating because I have sent my CV to approximately 50 or 60 spots, but only 4 of them called me back and 2 out of 4 interviewed me, and I got rejected from one, still waiting for an answer from the other (and it's been almost 2 months since the interview)..
Well I have to mention other 2 offers I have rejected. One was in an Adv. Agency and the other in a really small office.. but I have to say that I regret turning down the second one.
I feel awful tonight :( I think I'm done thinking and speaking for now.

Ginny!!


Since I was ten, sometimes when I'm alone at home I dance. Yes, I turn on the the grooviest songs on my playlist and dance really hard till I fall down :) Its kind of a way for me to freshen up or something. But since Ginny started living with us, I cant do it unless she's out of the room. It's the way she looks at me. She widens her eyes with wonder.. and I just cant stop laughing.. Look at her face!


"Whatever. None of it's working.
I've had a guy leave a voicemail for me at work,
and then I call him back at home,
and he emails me to my Blackberry,
and then I text him to his cell,
and then he emails me to my home account from the plane phone..
--and it just totally gets out of hand.
I miss the days where you had one phone number,
with one answering machine that housed one casette tape,
and either the cassette tape had a message from the guy,
or it didn't. That's it.
Now you have to go around checking all your portals and get rejected by seven different technologies.

It's exhausting!"

 


This is from the movie He's Just Not That Into You, quoting Mary (Drew Barrymore).. 
What she's saying is just so funny and dramatically true, isn't it. Technology and all these portals are supposed to help us build relationships at an easier level. But the actual outcome of all of it,  is simply complexity.


Yesterday we had a reunion kind of dinner with old friends. One of the topics was that how there was a romantic aspect of writing letters and waiting for a reply for days and weeks. I dare say; patience, longing, curiosity and scarcity of information were the building blocks for long lasting relationships. 


I wonder;
what are the building blocks of the modern world's relationships? 
 

Camera

I think I'll sell my new camera and replace it with a new one. My favourite camera broke during my interrail trip this summer. And when I came back I just went to one of the electronics shops and bought the first one that felt sufficient to me. Well its actually a better equipped one compared to the one I broke, but I just checked my old photos and the image quality seems much more satisfying than the photos I've taken with the new one.
I think its time for me to buy a fully professional camera now. But first I gotta sell this one. I may head to Eminonu tomorrow.

Iki gun once turkuazoo'ya gittim. Avrupa'nin en buyuk akvaryumu oldugu iddia edilen bu kompleks, Forum Istanbul'un, icinde bulunuyor. Yani Bayrampasa'da. Bugune kadar gezdigim ya da gezdigimi hatirladigim tek akvaryum Singapur'dakiydi, ki gercekten buyuleyici bir akvaryumdu. Burasi da orda gezdigim akvaryum ile ayni formattaydı. Akvaryumlarin konumlandirilmasi, tunel ve tunelin icinde ilerleyen mekanizma vs.. hatta Turkuazoo'nun metrekare olarak kesinlikle daha buyuk oldugunu soyleyebilirim. Fakat balik cesitliligi acisindan cok da zengin degildi. Karsilastirma yapmak ya da olumsuz elestirmek istemiyorum. Sonucta Turkiye'nin ilk akvaryumu. Daha bir hayvanat bahcesi bile isletmeyi beceremeyen ulkemizde bu tur bir girisimde bulunulmasi sasirtici, belki biraz da umut verici..

Darica'daki hayvanat bahcesine gideniniz var mi? Ordaki hayvanlarin nasil bir sefalet icinde yasadigina - hayatta kalmaya calistigina - sahit oldunuz mu? Parcalanmis olanlarini onarmak yerine defalarca ust uste tel orulmus kafeslerin ardinda, pislik icinde yasamaya calisan, hastalik kapmis, ve yanindakilere bulastirma tehlikesi olan o zavallilari gordunuz mu? Farkinda olmak adina gitmenizi oneriyorum. Aglayarak, mutsuzluk, umutsuzluk, hayal kırıklığı ve öfke ile ordan ayrilacaksiniz.. cocugunu goturup hastalikli ponylerin kafasini oksatan, bir yandan da bunu fotograflayan ve durumun absurdlugunu algilayamayan insanlari gordugunuzde, omuzlariniz biraz daha dusecek..