I read in the Forum online that Caterpillar in West Fargo is expanding its plant and plans to add 250 new jobs over the next three years. Exciting news for people looking for this type of work! I feel so encouraged when job opportunities expand in our extended community, here.
Yesterday, I got a note that my photograph, Hollyhock & Bee, is among the featured art works in the Bee & Wasp Passions group at RedBubble.com
Hollyhock and Bee
“You Looking At Me?” Fine Art Print by mikrin | RedBubble.
A most lovely picture of a small frog with large eyes on an even larger lily pad.
Evidently a group of squirrels ate away a part of the telephone cable, a pole south of us, leaving us with no phone service. Back up, again, as of just a bit ago. Hope to get mail read and responded to, tomorrow morning.
Sorry for any inconvenience!
Qwest sent out a truck this morning because someone lost their phone service. (Realized, then, when I checked, that we also had no phone or Internet.)
It came back up for a few hours, and then disappeared totally. Like there’s nothing at all connected to our telephone wire.
My business (cell) phone still works. That’s the one listed on the front page of my site. Home phone and Internet are out until further notice. (When called, they said something about sending a technician out again on Friday, sometime. I certainly hope it’s up before then.)
I find myself wishing, as the holiday weekend approaches, that I had a little bit more work scheduled, and fewer social engagements. The three-day weekend will be nice, however.
A poem of mine, published in the Dec. 2010/Jan. 2011 ARTSpulse magazine (print edition—a local publication), reflected on the need for more time:
Stepped outside of time
to fit a 3-day weekend
into 2 days off.
(The wording may not be exact. It keeps changing on me.)
Sometimes, however, it isn’t more time that one needs, but more variety in activities.
The Internet did die, Friday night, but was up again soon after I got up, Saturday morning. So, I am once again sending and receiving e-mails.
My business telephone number is working, but landline/DSL are down due to heavy rain. See front page of my web site for the number.
Back soon!
This Blog article at Forbes.com, “Why Older Workers May Not be Getting Hired,” harkens back to several topics covered in Richard Bolles’What Color Is Your Parachute? Both the 2010 and 2011 editions speak specifically to this and related issues. Resumes have been changing as the job market and business hiring practices are changing.
When looking for a job, it really does help to be able to concentrate on where you want to get and what skills you have to offer when you get there. The resume should tell a prospective employer that you have the personal and job-specific skills needed to do the specific job that the employer needs done, as well as the flexibility to learn, adapt, and expand those skills and abilities as the job changes.
Occasionally I post to my Blogspot page, listing some of the things that have been happening. It is that time, again: Update!
