Busy doin' nothing...

Not doing a whole lot, just household chores [I actually get a lot of satisfaction out of doing these, much more than I ever got at my previous job.] I've applied to a couple of things and at least one place [a casino] wants to interview but I am currently playing phone tag with them. I could go either way on that job--the commute will be miserable, but it might be a good work environment for me.

I've registered with a couple of recruiters--not hoping for much, but maybe they will at least be good for a single interview. I've had bad experiences with the one main recruiter [a national company.] You know, initial enthusiasm, then weeks without contact. Then phone calls about a new opportunity where someone is really interested in interviewing. Then, more silence, occasionally broken by explanations about why those opportunities fell through. I got exactly one interview with them, and that was a complete waste of time for both me and the interviewer. We both realized it right away, so the interview consisted of us both basically staring at each other and struggling for things to say. It was an older guy who was wanting someone to take over his business in a few years. Why he or the recruiter would think that an entry level person would be a good candidate for that is beyond me.

That is one real struggle I have with finding a job in public accounting--the assumption is that everyone wants to be a partner/owner some day. That's not me. I am perfectly happy to spend my days as an employee. I had the partner fantasy for about five minutes when I first started, then I saw how it was nearly impossible for someone to do that, and also how the skills required as a partner are totally foreign to me--marketing, salesmanship, etc. Not the kind of thing I went into accounting wanting to do. But in public accounting, the expectation is that people all want to own the keys to the store.

Finished LITERARY LIFE last night. Need to dig through my backlog of library books now. Faulkner is rough going, maybe a little too rough for me. The Churchill biography is written in a very dry style that is hard to get through. Oh well, I will dig around and find something else soon.