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AdriI'm Adri, a Californian nerdette dwelling at the East of the Golden Gate who loves to blog, take random pics, and make cool web stuff. I dig reading, music, singing, traveling, tea, food, Asian pop cultures, anime, manga, video games, the Golden State Warriors, the San Francisco 49ers, the San Jose Sharks, and the Oakland A's. I am a contributing writer for Technorati, Blogcritics, and KabayanTech. I am also a happy sitter to a family of cats, in which this current blog theme is dedicated to. [Extend →]

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Little Women
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Eyre
Angels and Demons
The Da Vinci Code
The Hunt for Red October
The Alchemist
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
A Tale of Two Cities
The Count of Monte Cristo
Like Water for Chocolate
The Great Gatsby
The Diary of a Young Girl
Outlander
Eat, Pray, Love
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Princess Bride
The Confessions of Max Tivoli


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(F)Unemployment Adventures: Networking

05/22/2013

Here’s the thing with me and people. I’m an extremely shy person, shy to the point where I meet and get along with the co-workers and then never hear from them again because I would feel like a pest if I bug them about hookups with… oh I don’t know… people associated with a particular field in which I may find some advice and tips that would help me succeed in my job search. The trigger came to me when I did just that with my old co-workers by emailing them (since I don’t know their direct phone numbers, such as their cell ph#s) and then never get a reply back must have played the factor of me staying in my comfort zone and simply just doing my thing.

So, with a suggestion from an old good friend of mine, I attended the ProMatch Orientation this morning. to learn more about this highly-talked about networking program. Like all other CONNECT workshops, ProMatch is heavily loaded with info regarding the benefits of being a ProMatch member and all the services they offer. Being unemployed for some three years now1, I feel desperate. Job hunting is just way too much… Continue reading →

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(F)Unemployment Adventures: Training and Workshops

05/09/2013

I had my welcome one-on-one meeting with a lovely career adviser named Kathy at the CONNECT Center in Sunnyvale1 earlier today. My friend took one of the workshops (interviewing skills) on the same day, which I will eventually be taking it also. I’ve got plenty of concerns and such regarding my long-term bad luck with job search. I thought it had something to do with my resume at first, but then the adviser did remind me that I did get a few calls and interviews but never really had a chance to get hired, so obviously it wasn’t the resume that’s the problem. It was the interview.

I’ve always dreaded interviews because I always get in those times where I already know what I’m going to say beforehand but when you actually do get to the interviews, that’s when you start blanking out. I already admit that I am not a very social person (as in not very talkative, not very “outgoing,” so to speak,e tc.) because that’s just how I’ve always been and I don’t think that’s going to change (except for a few close friends, I do get talkative). I also stutter as well and that’s not… Continue reading →

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