Random Musings

Well I’m back and the computer is running better. Now to continue with what I was going to post.

I’ve seen a couple of articles lately on how contirbution to an open source project can and should help get you a job. I’m glad about this because I have precisely no experince yet but I am looking for an OSS project to work on (feel free to leave comments if you now of any that need help).

While the posts are from different views, one from the potential employee and the other from the potential employer, they both have a big thing in common. A candiates participation in OSS can help decide if you should hire him or not. Now I just hope that companies that I apply to feel the same.

I went through the process this summer of trying to find part-time employment doing telecommuting work and it was horrible. I sent out resumes to all the companies that had postings I was fit for and yet none of them replied. Even after sending numerous follow-up emails.

That was frustrating, mainly because I didn’t know why they didn’t want to talk to me. Did they not like the fact that I only had an Associates, that fact that I had no experience, what was it? Oh well, I hope that the next jobs I apply for take OSS participation into account.

Yeah that’s about it. It is now midnight and I need to finish an essay for Composition. A class that isn’t turning out too bad…it just depends on how well my writing improves I guess.

The only other class I don’t like is Accounting. Is there a class that is a bigger bore. I guess it would be different if it was taught by someone that didn’t sound so bored when she was teaching it. And the has the nerve to ask why we are so quite. I’ll tell you why…IT’S ACCOUNTING. No it is not because we don’t get the subject material. Or because we just had lunch. It’s because we are bored out of our minds by you and the subject.

Anyway, rant over. My computer keeps freezing for moments at a time so I’m going to post this and post some more tomarrow morning hopefully.