Micro-Malnutrition and Job Applications

Happy Veterans, Day! And welcome to the last binary day of the century! For those of you who don't really care, today's date translates to 63 in binary. Congratulations, you have officially learned nothing important.

I have learned that cup ramen, easy mac (even if it's Velveeta), and tea is not all that nutritious.

I think I may have applied to a dozen jobs yesterday. It could have been a baker's dozen, but who's counting. For only 1 am I truly qualified, for about 3 I am underqualified but intrigued by the opportunities, and for the remainder I'm overqualified but hoping that will work in my favor and result in at least A job offer. I have ceased to be selective about what I'm looking for and have become reconciled to the truth that with the current economy, I have no real right to be particularly selective.

In the event anyone may be looking for hard-working and highly adaptable employees, though, this is my work environment wishlist:

• A non-profit organization seeking to improve the quality of life for locals, preferrably those of Native Alaskan descent
• The intimacy of a small-business with a large corporation's sensibility about professionalism
• A combination of focused desk work, internal cooperation and presentation, and external outreach and interaction
• Clear cut expectations with room for creativity and personal application
• Opportunity to improve job skills through continual learning
• Honest assessment of employees to 1) prevent stagnancy and inappropriate tenure of uncommitted individuals and 2) allow for internal mobility, whether horizontal or vertical

...although I'm open to flipping burgers,
waiting tables,
teaching at a pre-school,
shelving books at the library
...or feeding the local moosen.