Will this be the week?

OMG this just doesn't end!  It keeps going and going and going...  I am physically tired.

It is the same story out here on the west coast as I am sure it is on the east.  Companies put these ads out asking for applications for a certain opening and then they never look at the apps. It is like watching the stock market, I watch to see who is viewing her sites and who is looking over her  linkedin account.  I keep working to make  her visible and people keep looking but dang it, someone call!  Did I mention how tired I am?  She and I have personal doctor appointments and such this week so I hope that means that someone will call__since we will not be able to pick up the phone.  Of course they will, why not?

The Start of Another Week!

This is so not cool.
Another Monday and no contact!
OMG!

Another Day of Silence

Yep, another day of silence... a call from a recruiter but I am not sure that counts.  After many compliments about her professionalism he neglects to follow through on his end.  Oh well another week gone without a word from my daughter's dream company.  I know her teachers have said to chill-out but there is a part of me that doesn't want to let the connection grow cold.  I will not do anything until the end of the next week; at that time all bets are off!

August 18th and counting.......

Don't Touch That Dial

Very hot here in southern California but we don’t mind all that much, we still have the pool.  Every day when the sun goes down enough to shade most the pool, we all go for a soak, It is wonderful!!

Still waiting!  From the 8th to the 16th not a word and still I have this feeling that she has found her company.  Basically because this is how my daughter operates, she picks the whatever it is she wants and she just says, that’s it, that is the one, and she goes for it!  I myself haven’t bothered to even apply for anything else, why should I?  I know this is the place but dang it, I wish they would call!

I had my daughter contact her professors at her school in New York to ask their advice.  What they told her was to, “chill out!”  This could take a two to three weeks, FINE!  I am not sure I can wait that long but I can tell you that I am already thinking about how to proceed.  ALways thinking…

She and I went to the grandparents to help them both with errands and such, long couple of days.  We attempted to tame the rain forest over at my parents house.  I cut and trimmed anything  my mom would let me cut down and we stuffed it into three giant green barrels.  Next week I will bring my son over to help with another corner of the property.  I am always exhausted by the time I drive home on Thursday but I also am always exhilarated when I look over their garden and I see what has been accomplished.  Things are looking really nice, there is just that one area that I have to concentrate on when I go next week.  

Little Bits

This is a site, I am sitting on the curb at the top of a dead end street typing on my computer.  In the background I hear men talking, they are setting something up around some sattilite type of thing.  They have clean room outfits on so I have no idea what they are doing.  ANyway, here I sit waiting for my daughter to finish with an interview at an advertising company just down the road.  I thought I might as well make good use out of my time here on the curb and put some thoughts to print.  

It is a good day today here in a very sunny southern California.  Bits of pine tree are dropping onto my computer as I type and the smell is soothing; kind of reminds me of Oregon.  I just realized that my day, well everyone’s days, are made of bits.  So many little things that drive us to get up each morning.  While this job search is currently __well now that I think about it, jobs are the number one bit we deal with on a daily basis here.  The dream job I found for my husband turned out to be not all that special and he is “having” to go to work each morning.  In my head I have already started to think about how to put him back out there, how to get people to think about him.  I have a small plan in place and then put it on the back burner because I have to deal with the daughter right now.  I spend my nights searching out boutique companies that have anything to do with advertising and the entertainment industry.  I search out the people that work there and find the ones that matter, recruiters, department heads, and HR people.  I follow the companies on social networks watching what they do and who is important.  I pull up their LinkedIn accounts to see where they worked previously and what their portfolios look like.  I also pull up their accounts in case they are looking like I do everyday so that they will see my daughter has looked at their account.  Perhaps in turn and sometimes they do, they will look at her stuff.  I know this works because last week she got an email from the VP of a company she has dreamed of working at.  She is very excited and I have this feeling that because they contacted her and told her, “they liked her stuff”, yes I think she is in.  AND yes, I did send out a little note to a department head there offering up her link and a small note saying how interested she was in that company.  I didn’t however send it to the VP, so somehow that all was shared with him at some point and he is interested.  I think she is in.  Last conversation was him asking what it is that she wanted and what was her employment status?  I had her respond that she was unemployed yet walking a few feet off the ground to be talking to someone from XXXXX.  He asked her if she would consider an internship and she responded that the best of all sineros would be that XXXXX would offer her a full time JR. Designer job but that if to get into the company, then yes she would consider an internship. That was on a Wednesday and there was no other contact.  Today is Monday and she is at a second interview with a company that requested she come in prior to the contact on Wednesday.  Not knowing for sure what is going to happen, she is down the street for interview number two. Over the weekend I had her contact her professors at school, who all work in the field and have very impressive credits, if she could use them as references.  This bight and early Monday morning I had her send those references to the dream company with a note stating that she would like to share with him blah blah blah so that he might inquire more about the school the program and her!  Should work to get her back into the discussions at that company.

My mind scares me too.  I think of it as creative manipulation where I plant a seed and see if grows all the while making only positive statements.  Never inject anything negative into an email or conversation no matter how tiny it will misrepresent your intentions.  I am lucky in that my daughter can write very well.  She always comes across as sounding every bit the young professional.  It has only been thirty minutes and I am really hot and can’t think of anything more to write.  Time to blow off the little bits of pine from my keyboard and move along.  I need to run few errands, might as well do that now. 

HERE’s to the little bits!!

Too UNREAL

I am from here, born and raised on a southern California beach.  We moved to Oregon to raise our children and will never regret that move; it was the decision we had ever made.  Children that grow up on the beaches in southern Cal are very different from the Children growing up near Portland Oregon.  Again, good move by us__yeah us!

Now being back I am finding it hard to find our grove.  I was telling my mom as we drove around today that I knew these places but didn't have any emotional connection.  Shouldn't I have some sort of feeling or emotional connection?  Yes, there is my high school a few blocks up that way, Mira Costa where the kids went surfing for physical education.  I played volley ball on the beaches and rode my bike alone the strand or boardwalk as they call it back east.  Lots of memories but it is like it happened to someone else.  wild!

My daughter is looking to move to Santa Monica and start work in the movie industry.  We were online looking at the area and wow, it just clicked for her.  She instantly made this connection and I could see it.  I saw the connection form!  I am really happy for her and although that particular journey is not quite off my shoulders yet, I am thrilled that she has found her path.  We still have to nail the interview, settle on a wage and find a place to live.  O and there is the little question about lending her a car until she can buy her own, buying insurance for her and for the old Jeep my husband will have to drive.  OMG just made myself dizzy.  Ha ha, I just noticed that i wrote "we" still have to nail the interview, see I am still have issues with the separation thing.  Her life / my life.

OH my Goodness still so many balls in the air.

The Olympics are on so I have basically forgotten where I was going with my thoughts today.   It has something to do with that drive I took with my mom.  The feeling that I was a woman from Oregon visiting a town in southern California.  I just basically feel so distracted.

More on this after the Olympics