Monday, January 24, 2005
More positioning
I don't know if I mentioned that one of my goals has been to connect my work on my knowledge base with more immediate needs. Ignoring or setting aside my personal economic necessities in favor of my study project, while the unfulfilled hope that eventually my studies would eventually turn out has been a major difficulty.
In spite of frequent advice that I ought to set aside my study project and work on the necessities, I feel strongly that this is an unworkable and even wrong approach; for several reasons. I've had those reasons bashed, so I'm not going to rehearse them here. What I need to do is to find a way to put my research and study skills to work to handle my own necessities.
The targeting and priority balancing scheme I mentioned seems to be working; I'm making progress toward identifying potential jobs and companies. However, since I've been in the shelter for 4 months now, I'm facing increasing pressure from the counselor there to get out and start filling out applications. I'm getting there, but I'm not quite to this stage yet. The jobs I would like to do, jobs I have the skills to do, jobs actually available, and jobs advertised go in four different orders of importance, so finding a tolerable match so that these categories aren't mutually exclusive is a non-trival task.
In spite of frequent advice that I ought to set aside my study project and work on the necessities, I feel strongly that this is an unworkable and even wrong approach; for several reasons. I've had those reasons bashed, so I'm not going to rehearse them here. What I need to do is to find a way to put my research and study skills to work to handle my own necessities.
The targeting and priority balancing scheme I mentioned seems to be working; I'm making progress toward identifying potential jobs and companies. However, since I've been in the shelter for 4 months now, I'm facing increasing pressure from the counselor there to get out and start filling out applications. I'm getting there, but I'm not quite to this stage yet. The jobs I would like to do, jobs I have the skills to do, jobs actually available, and jobs advertised go in four different orders of importance, so finding a tolerable match so that these categories aren't mutually exclusive is a non-trival task.
