My status....

To those of you wondering, yes, I am still an unemployed bum, still waking up every morning with nowhere in particular go and nothing to contribute to society. At least I ain't sucking off the government's tit yet, though. No, in all seriousness, the job hunt is continuing. This week I applied for a position as an Information Technology Assistant at the Clark County Library. It's a pretty good paying job but I imagine I'm just one of dozens if not hundreds of people who applied. They stopped taking applications on Wednesday, so if they are interested in me I should be hearing something soon.

I also applied to be a software quality tester for MGM-Mirage. I have an application pre-screening with them next week.

And just for something completely random, I applied to be a poker room supervisor at the Stratosphere this week. Perhaps it speaks to my lack of sanity and disregard for money that this is actually the job I want the most. When I apply for computer related jobs out here I find myself asking myself why I left my job in New Hampshire and moved out here if I'm just going to get another computer job. If I really wanted to work w/ computers why didn't I just stay in the Granite State?

And now some pet peeves about job hunting:

• MGM-Mirage, which owns about half the hotel/casinos on the Strip, only lets you apply for one job at at time with them. This is not just one job at one hotel, it's one job at ALL of their places. The stupid part about this is you can apply for a job, wait for weeks with no response, only to find out that the job has already been taken and you could have applied for another job during the time that you were waiting. There was a job at the T.I. poker room that I applied to, but when I talked to an actual employee in the poker room last week I find out that someone was already in the process of being hired for the job but that the job stays on the website until the person is 100% hired. How do people have any way of knowing this? How many people apply for a job and then waste their time waiting for a response that never comes, only to have another job that they could have gotten slip away because they aren't allowed to apply to one while waiting to hear about another? Why not just let people apply for multiple jobs at once? Lame....
• Stations Casinos is a large company that owns a whole bunch of locals' casinos in the valley. They have a reputation as a very good company to work for and they are consistently in the Forbes Top 100 Companies To Work For list. My complaint about them -- you are only allowed to apply for 2 jobs with them in a 90 day period. So if you applied for 2 jobs and didn't get them because perhaps you applied to late, or perhaps you were just as qualified as somebody else but they had to pick somebody so they picked the other person, you are out of luck for 90 days. Lame....
• Websites that list job openings but give absolutely no description as to what the job entails. Over a month ago I applied for a job at the Palms as a database analyst. I have no idea what I would be doing as a database analyst but it sounded like something that might be up my alley, so I applied. I guess it doesn't matter anyway because I still haven't heard back.

Well that's enough bitching. For now.