Today was a good day for me. I had an interview last Thursday for the Director of Religious Education job, and they called me back for a second interview which I had today. I interviewed with them for three hours - six different people, two at a time. I feel so good about this interview, and I was so in my element ( Read more... )

Another interview! To anyone who is job hunting, I highly recommend that you get your resume professionally written. I can't believe the difference it's made in getting the interviews! Yesterday I was feeling distraught because of my current temp job, and I was feeling like I'd never escape, but now that I have three interviews scheduled for ( Read more... )

Today I'm really annoyed about my job, and I'm SO looking forward to moving on. The problem is that the manager here is an idiot! Some of the others here have told me that she feels threatened by me. The truth is that I have both more skills and more education than she does, and it's really obvious to everyone... especially when I know how to do ( Read more... )

I have a temporary job that I absolutely hate. I took it first, because I need money, and second, because it's giving me the opportunity to practice my Spanish with monolingual speakers. I'm training Spanish speaking individuals. However, except for the Spanish opportunity, I'm way over qualified and extremely bored ( Read more... )

Oh my God! I think I may have found the job of my dreams! And it's not a counseling job. The Palo Alto Universal Unitarian church has an opening for a Religious Education director! I have a degree in Religious Studies with an emphasis on Gnosticism (from UC Berkeley, with honors). Gnosticism is one thing that the Palo Alto branch of UU is very ( Read more... )

Middle age is knocking hard on my back door, and suddenly I find that I don't know what anything means anymore. I don't know who I am, and all the things that I thought meant something turn out to be empty... kind of like fairy gold turning to leaves. It's not that I haven't always been on a quest for meaning and have found meaninglessness, but ( Read more... )

The class I went to was pretty elementary, which was disappointing to me. I think I knew more than the instructor! Now, I'm not going to hold that against him though...I did my honors thesis on early gnostic sects, so I usually expect people to know less about them than I do. The rest of the people in the class found it very interesting, so I'm ( Read more... )

I'm reading "War is a force that gives us meaning" by Chris Hedges. Non fiction, written by a reporter who has covered many late 20th century wars. He demonstrates the difference between war as it is popularly perceived, and war as a reality.

Today I checked out the Universal Unitarian church in Palo Alto. I've always wanted to check out a UU, but I've always been hesitant, afraid that they might be a little too new-agey? airy? not gritty enough? for an atheist leaning agnostic like me. But no, the message was right on! The topic today was that the environment, and global warming in ( Read more... )

Wow, powerful and thought provoking article. It brings to the forefront something that I've been considering for some time.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/22/18367098.php