Job search joys

What a more uplifting post to follow the previous.

In case you haven't heard, I have finally found a job as a process engineer. My seemingly hopeless persistence in keeping in touch with AMEC turned out to not be so hopeless after all. In short, I was finally offered the position and start quite promptly (Monday).

Moving along with that I'm also quite excited that this came in time for me to compete in a local amateur ballroom competition. It should be a good time, plus now I can keep dancing after the whole thing.

There's just a few things left I want to do with this opportunity. One of which includes finally moving out to live on my own again. I've nearly forgotten what it's like to be on my own, so I can't wait to be my own man again.

I'll post the next update regarding the competition afterwards (event is 25th-26th).

What have I been doing with my life?

I guess it's been a while, and there hasn't been much of a change in my life. That means no full-time job, no salary, living at home, etc.

Anyway, still found time to do the following in my free time:



as well as

which comes with CUU News

And finally I've been tutoring a high school junior in chemistry. Those are the only three ways I've been able to make cash so far. It's kind of a bummer, but I gotta do what I gotta do. The ballroom thing is more of a money-sink, but that one competition did give me back some of it in awards.

However, there is a faint light at the end of the tunnel. I once interviewed at AMEC back in February. At the time they seemed to have a promising upswing of projects and were willing to hire entry-levelers. Well after due time, it was revealed to me that things didn't swing quite so upwardly as they had anticipated. So I'm currently being strung along, as it was revealed that I would be a "great addition" to their team, about possibly working there in the near future (hopefully May?). Oh as for Peragen, things died in November due to weather and soon plans are to restart the effort. This may involve more trips out to Joliet.

Meanwhile, I'll keep on trucking with my website and see where that potential job might lead. Guess it's time to fetch my resume and drop it in some inboxes.

It's a new dawn

Life has been quite a jumble lately. Among my responsibilities as a continued consultant for my previous research, I have been finding myself almost shockingly occupied.

First, I've done a couple fun things like: a bit of a night out in mpls, seeing Ratatat live in mpls, going to a Vikings game (been years), going to the Twins game that resulted in a division clinch, after said clinch.. celebrating with the team and getting some high-fives n such, getting involved with a nearby ballroom studio, and continued doing graphic design work..got business cards too.

I've also managed to continue getting part-time pay for my further research work. Along with that I am also getting more involved with Peragen Systems. I have visited the site twice now and we're so very close to start-up. Additionally, I am now going to be working in Aspen to model the process as it is currently, then eventually scaling up. This involves me working in dtwn mpls in AMEC's office - a real engineering consulting firm. Who knows where this will all lead, but I never expected it that's for sure.

I'll leave this post with a clip of what I may consider one of the better rounds I had at my last comp (at least for smooth). More available on my youtube channel.