C4AC #2 – Shhh.. I’m hunting wabbits

Err, make that hunting for a new job…

I lasted until my birthday before I quit the job I started back in November. I just could not handle the pigs that I worked with (I can handle some manly BS but those guys were just UGH!), or the part where you gave the store what days you can work for 3 months and yet they give you a next week schedule on the Thursday, so I had to come in on my day off to see when I was working. The part that really pissed me off since day 1 was I said I couldn’t work Saturdays and I was always put down to work.

Filling out application forms today and the wage question always gets me, cause I’ve never could understood why companies ask you how much your wage should be. How would I know how much the job is worth or am I worth? As a coach or at a real job, I don’t have a set price what I want to be paid per hour/per session). But if I was to say run a few paddling camps thought the summer that should be one price (set by the club) and if I coached a team then that should be another price (set by the team not the coach). Some coaches only want their set amount instead of different wages for different events.. not a lot of teams can afford a coach from $25 – $100+ per session. But at the same time I don’t want to go back anything under $11/hour… unless I really have to.

Just submitted a lot more resumes today, hopefully I hear back from at least one.

Jemmen | Tyler | Caity | Aidan | Dez | Chris | Holly |

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C4AC #2 – Personal Branding

Social Networking and Personal Branding go hand in hand which most people have forgotten about these days. Everyone thinks its all about online persona but it’s not.

Personal Branding is another way of saying how do you present and carry yourself with your attitude, appearance. Just like in a job interview and or on that 1st date with someone. How you present yourself in person should be more important then how many rss readers you have or how many comments your blog gets per day.

People are using the web (facebook, myspace, twitter) to market themselves and or their company. Even those of us who are using the web for personal enjoyments (aka hobby) we still need to head smart on what get posted online. As we’ve all been told over the years that what you post online CAN bite you back in the ass hard later on. You don’t want to be fired from your job just because you wrote “I’m bored” on twitter or on facebook when you should be working and your boss also follows you.

There are some almost 19 years old on my facebook account (former kids I coached) who have pictures of them drinking and list their place of work. Two of them also started doing the webcam poses in small clothing on personal website. They get a lot of hits from what I hear but its the wrong kind of attention they are getting I’m worried about… I just want to shake some scene into them, I would call the parents BUT I don’t have their phone numbers anymore.

It boggles my mind people would do something like that just to get noticed. It might get you popular and known online but is it worth it?

What you do/say online can also brand you for whole online life.

Dez | Gary Jones :: BlueFur.com | Aidan | Caity | Chris |

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