Mission excepted

Went to see the new Mission Impossible movie. It was a lot better than I thought it would be.

Figures...

My mom popped by to say hi and give me my Xmas presents early! She finally gets me something I asked for; too bad I had to sell my HD tv and blu-ray player last week to pay rent. fml.

Electric Watermelon

This bike is pretty slick. Check it out at Chopcult.com

Need a job!

The title says it all! I need a job.  But I need a job that will pay more than minimum wage and doesn't involve wearing a paper hat and a name tag.  Looking for jobs here in Vegas is crap.  You can look on Craigslist but 99% of the posting are scams.  I can spend hours looking thru CL and find one that sounds promising but the lister doesn't post a phone number to call or fax, or a email.  I get paranoid with emailing my resume to any emails now for fear of spammers. 

I had a very hard time looking for work when I was layed off in 2008 from my job of over six years.  Vegas had and STILL has one of the highest unemployment rate in the nation.  After a year of nothing I moved to Nebraska.  Unemployment in Nebraska was very low (5%) compared to Nevada (15% in 2009).  I also had friends still living in Lincoln so I had a place to crash while job hunting. 

I found work pretty fast in Lincoln.  I started doing construction, then I was hired on at a Chevy dealership as a service writer.  That job sucked balls; the people I worked WITH were great.  The people I worked FOR were backstabbing dicks.  I quit that job after 10 months of not getting paid.  Found work at a lumber yard sanding and staining/painting doors and window frames.  That job paid me just enough to pay my bills but was fun cause of all the hard labor involved.  I liked working with my hands and having a finished product at the end of the day felt good.  They let me go from that job after 3 months on some crap excuses.  So after all the jobs and so other BS I was pretty much on the skids.  I missed my kid more everyday and said "fuck it" and sold/gave away anything that wouldn't fit in my GMC Jimmy and with help of my kid's mom and my mom I drove all the way back to Vegas to start over AGAIN.

Luckly I found a job pretty fast in Vegas.  It paid better than I thought I would be able to get but was the worst organized place to work at and just stressed me out to no end.  But I wasn't going to quit cause of that.  After eight months I was called by a staffing agency to interview for a job at another place.  I wasn't actively looking for another job; they found a old resume on careerbuilder.  They told me about the position, I went down to their office and filled out the paper work and set up a appointment to interview with the business offering the job.  I thought it wouldn't hurt to check out all my options?  The pay would be almost the same but the hours were far better; no weekends.  I liked what the other place had to offer, I interviewed with them three times before I was offered the job.  I did have one concern that I voiced to my future boss.  I wasn't excited to be hired thru a staffing agency.  My thought was that if I'm a "temp to hire" it would be easier to let me go if they didn't like for some stupid reason.  If they hired me without the staffing firm they would be more invested with me.  My future boss was cool and understood.  I'm thinking of leaving a job that pays pretty well for job in a field I really didn't have any experience in that pays about the same with no guarantees that it'll work out.  I mulled over this for a couple days then decided to go with it.  Fortune favors the brave, right? 

After 3 months of things going pretty well, they decide that I'm not a good fit for the company and let me go.  I should have listened to my gut and stayed in the hell hole I was in instead of going to see if the grass is greener on the other side.  I was vexed but I wasn't entirely pissed.  I was starting to feel the company wasn't a good place for me either, but wasn't going to quit. 

*sigh* oh well...

And here we go...

Hello anybody who's even reading this.  My name is Chris.  Why am I blogging?  I don't know really?  I guess I'm kinda bored?  I'm recently unemployed AGAIN and need to fill up my days with something to do since looking for a job takes only about hour out of my day.  That leaves me with 23 hours to kill. And I have to do something or I'll end up going bat-shit crazy sitting in my apartment with nothing to do.  Anyways, here's some facts about me:

* I was born and raised in Lincoln, NE (Go Huskers!).

* Moved to Las Vegas, NV when I was 21.

* I have one kid. 

* I like anything that makes me laugh; regardless if it's socially acceptable or not.  Funny is funny.

* I love movies, video games, cars and motorcycles; you know, "guy shit".

* I have a huge distaste for any woman who wears Uggs.  Especially while wearing sweats.

* In 2008 I was layed off from my job of 6 years and spent a whole year unemployed.  Out of that year, I only was called for four interviews.  My apartment lease was up with no job prospects in the near future, I made a very hard decision and moved back to Lincoln, NE to find work.  That lasted about a year and I moved back to Las Vegas, found work fairly quickly and yada, yada, yada...I'm unemployed again. Super!

* Oh, and I failed English 10 in High School, twice. So excuse me for any bad grammar, misspellings and punctuation.  So if this shit is hard to read or follow...sorry. 

I'll probably use this blog to post bullshit I like that I find.  Maybe post about some bullshit that I'm going through or witness.  So basically it's going to be a lot bullshit.  Enjoy!