Job, work, life, and a snow storm

I am depressingly looking for a job. I don’t know how much money my work has to sustain me. It’s not like I get paid a lot as a person with 6 years work experience. You can say I am an underpaid programmer since programming jobs are like McDonald’s jobs. TOO MANY of us! Anyways, I get paid what an entry level programmer gets right out of University. It’s sick, depressing, and what pissed me off more is that I spent all these years and I didn’t get any benefits or anything. Only last year I found out that regular contract workers can get pension from the University. Yaay my life. What have I done in my past life to deserve this!!! So, what did I get out of this job? Nothing useful. I check out other jobs out there, and I absolutely have no programming skills. Whatever I learned at University is it. So if I have to look for work, I have to start from scratch. That’s what pisses me off.

So I spent late afternoon just looking for work. I saw great jobs, but they pay a LOT. And they are programming. I read them and think to my self, “I can do this. I can learn to do this quickly since I am a programmer. However, too much competition and knowing my self and my luck, I won’t be considered.” I tell my self to always think positive, but I can’t because I want so much, and I am capable of doing many things and always be challenged, but no one is giving me a chance. Even my current work I was never given a chance to be a real programmer or be a full time employee. A technical college graduate got all the pleasures of working there, and me, as a University graduate, nothing. Just emotional suffering, treated like I am just another useless worker, and I just did stupid graphic work that hardly anyone appreciated.

Anyways, leaving work this afternoon was a hassle. Snow covered roads. Bus drivers driving slow. Snowing like crazy! Wow. But it’s not that cold. Only -6 celcius. :cry: With my layers of clothes, it’s not THAT bad. Just snow is getting annoying!

I passed by the mall, and in the middle, Santa Clause is there. Guess who Santa is? My Proffesor! He is the boss of his own company too, and he just decided that he wanted to be Santa Clause. So he saw me, Ho Ho Howwd me and waved at me! lool I am like great!!!! I love holding kids for 1 minute, but that’s it! Hearing whining kids all day is annoying!

I decided to enjoy the rest of the day by taking a video of my joyful snowy backyard!



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The out door grill covered in snow.

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Google finally REPLIED to my request! COLOR LABELS!

I was twittering around today and people were mentioning that google labels have colour now. This shocked me. This reminded me of an email request I sent in June of 2005 asking for this feature and other features as well. They were polite and replied to me.. but now they ACTUALLY got it working!! Wohoo!!

I waited and waited.. I took screen shots of my happiness. I also found my email requests!

Mona xxxxx <xxxxx@gmail.com>
reply-to Mona xxxxx <xxxxx@gmail.com>,
to accounts-support@google.com.,
date Jun 19, 2005 6:25 PM
subject Request – Mailbox enhancements..
mailed-by gmail.com

Hello GMAIL Support guys,

I really love gmail beyond belief. It is the best web email system ever made. I am only requesting a few enhancements.

1. I like to label important emails sent by people with a colour. I know the starred items are for the important items, but I like mine coloured. It is easy for me to see right away on the screen.
2. I want smilies! :) Hehe. Google mail needs cool 3d like or animated smilies to be added to the email. I love it that there is html compose, because I had hard time seeing the images for html based emails.

Gmail Team <gmail-support@google.com>
to Mona xxxxx <xxxxx@gmail.com>,
date Jun 21, 2005 1:18 PM
subject Re: [#28395994] Request – Mailbox enhancements..

Hello Mona,

Thank you for your message — we are forwarding your suggestions to the appropriate team. We appreciate hearing from Gmail users, and value all ofthe help you offer while we improve the Gmail experience.

To submit future suggestions and feature requests, please visit the Help Center at http://gmail.google.com/support/, click ‘Contact Us,’ and select ‘I have a suggestion.’ Please note that you must be logged in to your Gmail account to make suggestions.

Selecting this option will help us route your comments directly to the appropriate team.

We hope you enjoy Google’s approach to email.

Sincerely,

The Gmail Team

This is what I have been waiting for!

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I am still waiting for smilies! :P

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I’m number one!

I woke up this morning and I received this lovely email from a Palestine Social Networking site. They emailed me all happy that I am one of the leaders! (5th place) For that, they get a post dedicated with my love! :)

Caroline (http://palestine.dailyvoices.com/) wrote:
Hi RebelliousArabGirl, :)

I’m emailing to let you know about Palestine.DailyVoices.com, a new site powered by our SocialRank algorithm.

The community page (http://palestine.dailyvoices.com/community) displayed you in the TOP 10 hottest blogs on Palestine.

Congrats, you’re a community leader!

With the site you can:
- view the top Palestine stories of the day, the week and the month
- keep yourself continuously updated with weekly email alerts
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Kind regards,

Caroline
SocialRank Community Manager
Palestine.DailyVoices.com

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