As you can probably tell, it has been a while since my last post. I will not pretend that I have been slacking on posting due to be really busy. That would be a lie. In fact, I think it would be fair to say that I have not been posting because I have not been very busy at all. It makes for dull writing when there is nothing to say besides: still no job, wow going well, etc etc. I will try to tackle some social issues or something to make it more exciting in the future. In any case, I am posting today because I saw that a certain website that I frequent in looking for a writer. I applied, so wish me luck!
It is probably the sort of job that I should be doing. Talking about what I enjoy in a succinct and interesting for the readers sort of way. I try to keep this as professional as possible because I get all my LOLWUTSUPGAIS kicks from wow. Anyway, wish me luck!
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Friday, June 5, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Perhaps a new direction
Though it has only been a month and a half since I graduated college, I am starting to wonder if I should change my focus. Job-hunting has been less than easy. I am sure anyone looking for a job in this economy will agree with me when I say: It's rough out there. I am strongly considering going back to school in the fall (or winter most likely) to start studying forensic psychology. I am not a huge people-person so I think counseling psychology would not be the best field for me. There are a lot of branches in Psychology, but most of which will only lead to writing articles, research and teaching. Those are all great endeavors, and I do indeed hope to take part in them in the future, but I also would enjoy a career where I can apply psychological concepts in the pursuit of miscreants and criminals. This is of course not the only job a forensic psychologist does, but certainly a large part of it. They work closely with law enforcement to help profile and anticipate the actions of fugitives etc.
Anyway, I will spare you the details. Suffice it to say: Forensic Psychology is a terribly interesting field, which I am very interested in. So to that end, I am keeping my options open and am taking the GRE (graduate something examination) in order to get into a good graduate school. It is quite possible I would need a doctorate in order to pursue the type of career I have envisioned, but I will cross that bridge when it is presented. I am continuing to look for positions, hopefully one which I will be able to do while attending graduate school.
A quick snippet from my WoW life now. My guild finally got through the bugged Mimiron encounter (ironically, they fixed the first bug which only created a second bug in its place which has since been fixed as well *crosses fingers*). The next boss was not a pushover, but certainly not terribly difficult. On our first General Vezax kill, I plucked an amazing spear: Lotrafen, Spear of the Damned. Is it of course not the best weapon in the entire instance for me, but it is close enough. Plus, spear animations are really cool.
Anyway, we have been working on Yogg-saron; and are getting very close to a kill. Unfortunately, another guild managed to do what we could not last night and claimed the realm first. I am not discouraged, however, because I am still having a blast and realm first or not, it will be a great thrill when we take him down this week. On a side note, I seem to have stumbled upon some very good arena teams. I found a Restoration Shaman to play 2v2 with and it is goign swimmingly. We have played about 120 games together and are at 2003 rating. This is the highest I have ever played arena, but this is only the 2nd week of the season! I see great things in our future, of which I hope the Gladiator's Frostwyrm is one. I also was invited to a 3v3 team and we are at about 1840. The numbers are relative and the 3v3 is perhaps the higher ranked team at the moment. 3v3 is not my favorite because there is 50% more things to pay attention to compared to 2v2. 2v2 is usually slower and easier to keep up with. In 3v3 people just get blown up if youre not careful.
Anyway, that is all for now. I am going to get back to studying for the GRE. So far, it seems a lot like the SAT in that it is testing logic and critical thinking as opposed to actual knowledge. However it may sound, this is a good thing for me :). Not to say I lack knowledge, but I think I am more of a critical thinker and a logical person rather than a cold, hard facts memorizing person. See ya later, alligator (in a while, crocodile).
Anyway, I will spare you the details. Suffice it to say: Forensic Psychology is a terribly interesting field, which I am very interested in. So to that end, I am keeping my options open and am taking the GRE (graduate something examination) in order to get into a good graduate school. It is quite possible I would need a doctorate in order to pursue the type of career I have envisioned, but I will cross that bridge when it is presented. I am continuing to look for positions, hopefully one which I will be able to do while attending graduate school.
A quick snippet from my WoW life now. My guild finally got through the bugged Mimiron encounter (ironically, they fixed the first bug which only created a second bug in its place which has since been fixed as well *crosses fingers*). The next boss was not a pushover, but certainly not terribly difficult. On our first General Vezax kill, I plucked an amazing spear: Lotrafen, Spear of the Damned. Is it of course not the best weapon in the entire instance for me, but it is close enough. Plus, spear animations are really cool.
Anyway, we have been working on Yogg-saron; and are getting very close to a kill. Unfortunately, another guild managed to do what we could not last night and claimed the realm first. I am not discouraged, however, because I am still having a blast and realm first or not, it will be a great thrill when we take him down this week. On a side note, I seem to have stumbled upon some very good arena teams. I found a Restoration Shaman to play 2v2 with and it is goign swimmingly. We have played about 120 games together and are at 2003 rating. This is the highest I have ever played arena, but this is only the 2nd week of the season! I see great things in our future, of which I hope the Gladiator's Frostwyrm is one. I also was invited to a 3v3 team and we are at about 1840. The numbers are relative and the 3v3 is perhaps the higher ranked team at the moment. 3v3 is not my favorite because there is 50% more things to pay attention to compared to 2v2. 2v2 is usually slower and easier to keep up with. In 3v3 people just get blown up if youre not careful.
Anyway, that is all for now. I am going to get back to studying for the GRE. So far, it seems a lot like the SAT in that it is testing logic and critical thinking as opposed to actual knowledge. However it may sound, this is a good thing for me :). Not to say I lack knowledge, but I think I am more of a critical thinker and a logical person rather than a cold, hard facts memorizing person. See ya later, alligator (in a while, crocodile).
Friday, April 24, 2009
Oh the places you'll go...
I could not think of a title so that is the one I gave this article. I still have no managed to land a job, though I am sure there are many people who have been looking longer than I so I should not complain. In the meantime, I am still working part-time not nearly making enough money. Not much to say about the job hunt unfortunately. The one interview I had fell through unfortunately. It would have been an amazing job, but I was not the best candidate.
But life goes on. I am still applying to more positions daily in the research, human resources and other fields, but the people hiring are being very stingy with their pocket books. They will not just hire anyone, so I have to give a lot of information in my cover letter to ensure they know I am the perfect person for the job. Not to say I am lying or anything, but I feel that it is important to show that one's specific characteristics and skills can be applied to job X as well as job Y in a different capacity. I would say I am very good at making these applications, but that would imply that I got a job.
As you may or may not know, the new patch for World of Warcraft came out a week and a half ago and there have been some bugs. I have been having trouble logging into my characters (just one actually and conveniently its the one I want to play the most). This time has given me the opportunity to tidy the house and whatnot. I recently transferred servers to find a raiding guild that is more my style. I think I have found such a guild and I am enjoying raiding with them. Hopefully they will feel the same way. Its quite a gamble swapping servers and leaving your friends behind for a chance at a raid spot. Hopefully the will take this into consideration :).
We have been tearing through Ulduar right up until Mimiron. This is probably the first really difficult boss fight in Ulduar and I am glad they put it into the game. The problem is we are being (excuse my French) cock-blocked by this guy due to some strange bug (or is it?). He is supposed to spin around the room (Like Lurker if you recall from SSC) and shoot lasers (pewpew) at anyone in his path. They hit for 16k which is enough that you do not ever want to get hit by them. What seems to happen is that if one person gets hit by a laser, he does a little jig and shoots the rest of the raid. This happened on many many of our attempts. The only way we could figure out to stop it is to move very preemptively and stop all dps. We basically back off and put our hands in our pockets for the duration of the spin. It works, but people are still failing to silly things (myself included) like bombs or rockets or whatever.
To be fair to myself and my fellow raiders, this is one of the most demanding encounters as far as situational awareness goes, that I have ever seen. I saw all but 2 bosses in the previous expansion and none are as intense as this fight. You have to watch the ground for bombs (if you step in them its about half your health), the ground for rockets (which you have 3-4 seconds to get out of), the cast bar on the boss for an aoe insta kill, the middle of the boss for the spinny attack and the middle of the boss again for his small aoe abilities. Whew. It really may not sound like a lot. Glance at your feet, the boss, the middle and thats it right?
That is right I suppose, if all you ahve to do is sit there and do nothing but look. But you have to dps/heal/tank. This means your attention has to simultaneously be on your rotation, your feet, the enemy's cast bar and the middle section as well as listening on vent for instructions. Whoever says playing video games is easy and is just playing around has never played this game. Play a few arena games at high levels and you will understand that this game is more in depth than most people's lives. Mine included, excluding the happening in the game obviously.
So why, might you ask would you play a game like this which has no monetary reward (unless you arena in the tournaments) and in fact costs you money and time and massive attention? Because once you kill that boss for the first time and everyone yells in your ear and you get the achievement...its very difficult to explain, but the harder the boss, the better it feels. And thats what keeps me raiding and spending hours each week farming consumables and repair money and maxing out my professions and doing everything I can to increase the likelihood that we will kill a new boss.
So I am really tired and felt like ranting about wow and the job hunt etc. I will report back soon (with a Mimiron kill of course). Peace and chicken grease.
But life goes on. I am still applying to more positions daily in the research, human resources and other fields, but the people hiring are being very stingy with their pocket books. They will not just hire anyone, so I have to give a lot of information in my cover letter to ensure they know I am the perfect person for the job. Not to say I am lying or anything, but I feel that it is important to show that one's specific characteristics and skills can be applied to job X as well as job Y in a different capacity. I would say I am very good at making these applications, but that would imply that I got a job.
As you may or may not know, the new patch for World of Warcraft came out a week and a half ago and there have been some bugs. I have been having trouble logging into my characters (just one actually and conveniently its the one I want to play the most). This time has given me the opportunity to tidy the house and whatnot. I recently transferred servers to find a raiding guild that is more my style. I think I have found such a guild and I am enjoying raiding with them. Hopefully they will feel the same way. Its quite a gamble swapping servers and leaving your friends behind for a chance at a raid spot. Hopefully the will take this into consideration :).
We have been tearing through Ulduar right up until Mimiron. This is probably the first really difficult boss fight in Ulduar and I am glad they put it into the game. The problem is we are being (excuse my French) cock-blocked by this guy due to some strange bug (or is it?). He is supposed to spin around the room (Like Lurker if you recall from SSC) and shoot lasers (pewpew) at anyone in his path. They hit for 16k which is enough that you do not ever want to get hit by them. What seems to happen is that if one person gets hit by a laser, he does a little jig and shoots the rest of the raid. This happened on many many of our attempts. The only way we could figure out to stop it is to move very preemptively and stop all dps. We basically back off and put our hands in our pockets for the duration of the spin. It works, but people are still failing to silly things (myself included) like bombs or rockets or whatever.
To be fair to myself and my fellow raiders, this is one of the most demanding encounters as far as situational awareness goes, that I have ever seen. I saw all but 2 bosses in the previous expansion and none are as intense as this fight. You have to watch the ground for bombs (if you step in them its about half your health), the ground for rockets (which you have 3-4 seconds to get out of), the cast bar on the boss for an aoe insta kill, the middle of the boss for the spinny attack and the middle of the boss again for his small aoe abilities. Whew. It really may not sound like a lot. Glance at your feet, the boss, the middle and thats it right?
That is right I suppose, if all you ahve to do is sit there and do nothing but look. But you have to dps/heal/tank. This means your attention has to simultaneously be on your rotation, your feet, the enemy's cast bar and the middle section as well as listening on vent for instructions. Whoever says playing video games is easy and is just playing around has never played this game. Play a few arena games at high levels and you will understand that this game is more in depth than most people's lives. Mine included, excluding the happening in the game obviously.
So why, might you ask would you play a game like this which has no monetary reward (unless you arena in the tournaments) and in fact costs you money and time and massive attention? Because once you kill that boss for the first time and everyone yells in your ear and you get the achievement...its very difficult to explain, but the harder the boss, the better it feels. And thats what keeps me raiding and spending hours each week farming consumables and repair money and maxing out my professions and doing everything I can to increase the likelihood that we will kill a new boss.
So I am really tired and felt like ranting about wow and the job hunt etc. I will report back soon (with a Mimiron kill of course). Peace and chicken grease.
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