I know I am skipping a few days here but I had to write down how I felt. I almost made myself throw up this morning. With my mind. Now, I have not finally become the jedi I dreamed of becoming; one week in and I am stressed out. Of course we don’t have any jobs even nibbling at us because we applied mostly last week. Last night I stumbled upon the realization that it was a mistake to move when we did. The apartment was paid for so we should have applied from there with the PO Box. Everything is clearer in hindsight and I am sure people reading this will think “I told you so” to themselves. And that’s okay. We will make it out here. I just don’t know how tough it might actually be.
The plan today is to go to Netflix and drop off a resume and a general cover letter that I have not written yet. I would really like to work at Netflix but, more than anything, I want to work in entertainment and for a company that entertains others. I even applied for event planning and management jobs at universities because I have always enjoyed the work and, at the end of the day, you are entertaining people with direct feedback.
Anyway, we are also going to Old Chicago tonight in San Jose. At least that is the plan. I hope it is like a little piece of home. We also got this medallion code the could be worth $500. Man I sure hope it is!
More when I know more.
Well that was a bust. Turns out the Old Chicago is not affiliated with the chain. Just a restaurant that has the same name.
We still went to Netflix though. We stopped at a print center on the way to print up some of our resumes and the cover letter that I made.
When we pulled into Netflix, it looked like a very fancy apartment complex. I gathered that there actually were people living there. I walked into Netflix, nervous because of what a job with them, or even a job in general would have meant to me. The lady greets me and I ask to speak with a representative from HR or a recruiter. She looked at me nervously and said I have to have an appointment or contact information. Now I will fight for myself a lot but at the end of the day I am just a polite Minnesotan boy. And this woman was just doing her job. She did give me a card with the mailing address and a new email I can try. Nice!
On the way back we nearly ran out of gas. Out here in California there is not too much between cities. Nearly nothing. I am used to cities all along the way. And we were on the highway system, not the interstate system so it did not have those blue signs that tell you at what exit you can find which gas station. Turns out we found a place but gas was 3.89 there. So I just got a few gallons and moved on.
When we got back to Sac, we filled up again at an am pm. I like their style. Their prices are low because they do not accept credit cards and thus save themselves costly credit transactions fees. They have ATMs and all that and you have to prepay, but the savings is huge! I paid 3.45 a gallon. A difference of 44 cents a gallon which saved me at least 5 bucks. Which is good because on the way back, I had to pay a god damn toll for 5 bucks.
Anyway, I was starving so we found an Applebees and had dinner. 6 dollar burgers, 6 dollar pitcher and half price onion rings never tasted so good! But, in typical Mitch fashion, I ordered too much, ate too much, and brought back leftovers. But it was still a nice dinner. My thanks to my friends and colleagues back at St. Cloud State for providing us with that gift card.
We stopped by Wal-Mart. And I write it like that because this is still one of those old Wal-Marts. Did you know that in CA you can find liquor, hard liquor, pretty much everywhere? Haha! Not in MN! So we bought Crown Royal and some wine from Wal-Mart! That was a first.
Well, no phone calls for jobs but no emails with a “no” either. I had a few drinks with Di, we watched the Olympics and then we went to bed to get up and do it all over again until we have jobs.
~Mitch Heid!