Only a figment of my imagination

Don’t we all at times wish that we can zap our co-workers and bosses away and be left alone for a day or two. I did, therefore it is possible! My boss is off this week, and my co-workers are off to a conference which I so stubbornly refused to go to because the benefit that I get from a 3 day conference is, well, a headache maybe? Spending more time with people who agree to not like me or one another? Sleeping in a bed someone else slept on? Sleeping on feathered expensive pillows that are too soft that my neck aches for days to come? I always think of the over all picture. What can a person benefit from all this? Some tell me, it’s a free trip! Some others say, you will learn so much and network to find a job in the future with big companies!

Hold up. Networking. That word. Meh.

Bleah! Networking with people across the globe so some day in the vast unknown future where I will be a citizen and proud land owner of a glass home on the moon with a full view of a crater will not really benefit me in any way. I have seen what happens to people who think that networking is the solution to everything. When things get tough for them, those networks are just there and really can’t do anything other than take their resume, give it to a higher superior, and that’s it. Might as well email the damn thing or send it in the mail to that person.

Also, you get these people who love to tell others that giving them your resume will get them a cash bonus if they land you a job! Ha Ha Ha.. haaaaaaaaaaaaa. Funny. Seriously funny. I honestly just want to get a job just to do that. Give me $2000 – $5000 per head that you hire under my recommendation and I will no longer call my self a dedicated employee but a recruiter. Fine. Let them be a recruiter, but will they recruit you for a position that is above them or their equal? Do they even have the power to do so? I seen what people have done in the past to others who tried to go for a position higher than them. “Sure, give me your resume. I will put a good word for you.” (they toss it in the pile of paper garbage on their desk)

What a life. If I spent my time worrying about getting a job through someone else and meeting various people that I don’t even know on a personal level and at times I don’t even know their last name, then really, what do I benefit? I am not against conferences or networking per-say, but I need more of a valid reason to enjoy my time (island view) and learn something that I cannot look up my self on the internet. Something that I can say to a future employer, “I went to this to get trained for that, and it has benefited me better in my work and every day life. I have become more than your average worker in this field.”

Also, don’t we feel happier when we get interviewed based on a resume that we sent out than having to have someone to assist us? My next job which I hope to get soon in the next 3 to 6 months with my vigorous and daily job hunting will be based on my efforts and mine only. Then when I walk into a new job I don’t have to kiss ass all the time and thank this and that for being here. It just feels weird.

I know, many people will be screaming at me now and wondering what the hell is wrong with my ideas. Meh. I am at work alone and I am just describing how it is to work in a small 14×10 office with lots of furniture, grad students passing by whose laughing is beyond obnoxious even with the horrible sound of the air fan thing on the ceiling, and thinking to my self, I miss those lunatic co-workers I have and they actually make me smile every now and then. They keep my brain stimulated with lots of thoughts of being annoyed, irritated, angry, entertained and highly amused for reasons that a 2 year old can probably understand.

In conclusion, I hate being here alone with the stupid sound of the fan and no one to bug me for reasons that are beyond comprehension. Even the music from my laptop cannot mask the sound of the treacherous ceiling monster.

Funny, Random Thoughts, They said what?, Whatever!