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Sigh..blah...life sucks.
Things are becoming monotonous. Again nothing exciting. When you've reached this stage of depression, usually these are your thoughts:

No answer about jobs="I am a worthless piece of shit who is better off dead"

Sending and Answering the same job listings to no avail= "You should have been a nurse."

How does anyone survive a time like this? I guess the loneliness is the hardest part, it's like who do you talk too when everyone's gone throughout the day. Which leads to a special topic of mine. LOVE...or EVOL (pronounced ee-vuhl)..or better yet obsession. When theirs nothing happening in one's life career wise, then its EVOL we start concentrating on. Its nature. Nature is truly a bitch who hates women.

Lots of ladies obsess about the man of their dreams, but its an eerie fact that many girls go through a phase where one small hint of someone possibly (I mean possibly) liking you sets off a series of events where one is likely too...

-Start thinking about future events, conversations, and possible wedding plans.
-Aimlessly check your phone after he texted you only once. You respond. Then-NOTHING!
-Facebook stalk (everyone's fave right?)
-Can't sleep
-Start listening to The Fray or Coldplay
-Instead of going menstrual once a month, you go menstrual every other day. An emotional roller coaster of ups and downs, ups and downs..check your phone-NOTHING!
-Start writing a blog about such obsession.

ahhhh....so it got me wondering on how obsession comes to play and some academic evidence points to my opinion is some mild form of OCD a woman forms after meeting specimen handsome.

More on that later.
-D

Staples may have cost me a Job.

I have been pretty busy these past few days trying to finish an application for this highly revered PR Program in NYC. Pretty much I've been thinking about this program for months but it was hard to get started. Mostly fear, not really laziness. I was a-scurred of even approaching the app.

Finally I was able to scrape everything together, and send it off. Low and behold I reread the instructions again and in big bold letters it said DO NOT BIND OR STAPLE. Did my peripheral vision not even see the word "STAPLE" because seriously I do not remember seeing that.

I've heard of horror stories of many of a pretentious hiring managers where a misspelled name, or not following big bolded highlighted italicized letters are little hints to the inability to complete a simple task.

Either way the only solution now is to forget about it, and move on with my life but this sucks because:

I worked hard on that app just to know that a simple staple (because I thought it might make it look a little more organized) would cost me an idealized future of a New York sky-rise happy go lucky stilleto and cocktails.

Yes, that was Sex and the City. Don't judge me.

Best,
-D

Just do it.

Today was a productive day, able to apply to 7 places and have a cover letter that was at once concise, attention grabbing, played to my strengths, and again concise.

So I'm doing this with all you guys, and we'll see if what I'm doing works out in the end. For the mean time to get started here are some of the websites I have found to be pretty darn helpful.

Monster.com
This is number 1 because its super easy to use. You can upload as many resume's and choose which one is suitable for the job. You may also choose to upload a generic cover letter that can be easily edited on the screen. As my dad said, "It's so easy you just apply, apply, apply..." Literally you just click apply. As an aspiring producer/writer it also gave me access to 4entertainmentjobs.com which has an uber list of everything entertainment. If you go through the site itself you have to pay a hefty fee, so uhh just use monster.

Idealist.com
I love this site because its all about people helping people, meaning many non-profit and government jobs, internships, or volunteer work. If you need work experience, and want to help out the community, this is ideal...(get it haha). Could use a broader filter platform to separate the non-paying and the paying jobs though. I even found a listing that offers free scuba diving for volunteering as an admin assistant. Awesome.

Jobcentral.com
This one place is actually four places in one. It searches through the listings of jobcentral, google, indeed.com, and simplyhired.com. Easy peasy, there filter options are one of the easiest things ever since you can find jobs for a specific location, company, by date, whether you want full time, part time, etc.

(For UCLA Alumns and Students) Bruinview
Ok so this is tricky but I believe it to be totally worth it (we'll see if I get a job out of it, but Jesus I believe..I hope), but in principle this database is intended for UCLA students and alumni and so if you happen to be in this category..they want you! Some problems though especially when you become alumni status.

The service actually cost $60. Remember this. When they sell you the GradPak, that's not paying for the service, getting the GradPak makes you only "eligible" to use it, but it does not activate anything. Hey at least you got a licence plate.

Also, it doesn't separate insternships from full time jobs. Sometimes "full-time" means full-time internships so if your not a student, out of luck dude, that Dreamworks, Disney, Warner Brothers, LA Times internships are only for students becuase ethically they need to pay you with some sort of "credit." Hey, you might have had a different experience but so far, this has been mine.

The easiest way to use Bruinview..On the homepage click "Jobs I qualify for."

Alright people, job whore it out.

-D

This is where it all got screwed up.

Playing a game of SceneIt Disney, we came across the British Lindsey Lohan in The Parent Trap. Automatically my friend says, "That's where it all went downhill, you know..when she started doing coke."

It all starts somewhere.

Think of me as Snow White, up on the castles of Westwood, Powell Library, Royce Hall...perfection..yes it was. More stories to come from that period, and in the spirit of Disney I have obtained the seven stages of occupational dwarfism,in which I will try successfully to stretch into the current condition having to graduate college has left me.

First one.
Happy. Look at my face.


So happy..and joyous...

...(probably 70% moved back home with their parents).

That's all good, sometimes some home lovin' is all you need to find a job. However, these friends are bound to ruin any hope...I mean all hope son...

Sneezy: Hungover, headaches, some form of illness is a good procrastination tool.
Grumpy: "Not feeling like it today, Dad. Now get me my food"
Bashful: I'm not worthy!
Sleepy: Its 1 pm. I need another nap. After 3pm.I can't move.
Doc: Short for Documents. That means applications, cover letters, writing samples, and the all inclusive resume. Remember keep it to a one page maximum and highlight why they need your qualifications.

Dopey:At some point you just might need a release.

"Poisonous" apple? She knew it, she had a choice dammit.

Maybe she was just trying to escape the reality of getting a real job.