Time Flash:
Monday August 6th, 2007
9am
My next step in job hunting starts today. I sent out a score of resumes to various scientific compagnies. I also sent in some applications to some unskilled labor type places. I really don't want to work outside of my field, but BZ and I are not in great financial shape and I need to get back to work.

2pm
Wow, I already got a call back about a job. Its for some place called JT industries or something like that. Its for eithor a warehouse type job or sales I'm not sure, the add had a lot of positions listed. It shouldn't be too mentally chalenging but its money. They want me to come down for an interview today so I'm off.

4pm
Well the interview wasn't what I expected. It turns out that the job is actually for Kirby, the vacume compagny. It would be going out and doing product demos for them. I would only be doing demos for people who have called in and requested them, so none of that door to door crap, so thats good. I don't have any problem being a sales man, I did it with the adventure board and that went pretty well. I have to go back tomorow for training and I'm fairly hopeful. The recruiting girl was quoting some high numbers for weekly salaries, between $456 and 2K, which is huge for a nondegree job. I was a bit concerned though that she stressed that they didn't care about education or experience. That seemed a bit odd to me.

Time flash
approximitly July 30, 2007

The new job at CareStream has been kind of rough. Their equipment is horrible. The prople there don't know the first thing about running QC testing on a comercial product, but I'm fairly confident I can bring them around. I've started filling in holes in their methods and have written up some validation work for the method as well. This should reduce some of the variability it has been having.
I was pretty shocked though to learn that the big bosses of the compagny don't really want to do any sort of QC testing on their material. This is really a disreputable practice and will get the compagny sued as soon as people who purchase their product start having assays fail becuase the CareStream product is crap.

I got in to long discussion with one of the two PHDs working here. Apparently she dosen't want to use my validation method, which would be ok as long as I can use her method, but she dosen't want that eithor. Apparently she feels a person to person reproducability validation of a method should be done with two seperate methods. I'm not quite sure how to describe this for the nonscience people reading this (not that I think anyone really reads this blog anymore), but this is a big flashing neon sign that someone dosen't know the first thing about validating a method. I tried to explain to her that we need to limit all variability in the method to see if it is rugged enough for different people to do it and come up with the same answer, but she just didn't get it. Ugh.

Time Flash:
Aug 3, 2007
Well I got a call today from the temping service that I am employed through saying that my services are no longer required. Apparently their reasoning is that I was "Too Senior" for the position. for what ever bullshit that means. Over all I'm glad to be out of there. I don't like working for disreputable compagnies, but the money will be missed. I guess its back to job searching.

Its been way way way too long since I have posted. for the longest time it was a combination of semi depression mixed with the reality that there really wasn't much going on it my life, but that phase seems to have come to an end, at least for a while.

So since my last post, I had a bachlor party, got married, had a bit of a honeymoon, got a job and probably a lot more. I've been having some crazy dreams as well, so bit by bit the urge to capture all of these things is returning.

I don't want to make this a long post, but I will come back and fill in the gaps when I get the chance.