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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 08:32 pm
My mental health is doing a bit of a down turn today, two weeks after the miraculous (steroid driven?) recovery.

I know i'm telling myself stories, and i should stop. [livejournal.com profile] daisydumont wrote about the stories one tells from a social anxiety point of view today. While i think i tend to be grounded in the situation she describes (if i even noticed!), my story of being overwhelmed makes seeing this announcement about a piece of software that i'm not even sure i want (but now the better app will be free? if i do what?) triggers a story, "I can't figure this out, it's all so overwhelming, i can't think on my feet, i can't skim this and make heads or tails, it's all too much."

Of course, it's not that i care about Hootsuite that much. It's that i've been practicing that story for months, and today i practice that story with every email i read.

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Tonight's reading rapidly turned to job stuff when i saw the alert from the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) that the organization's president had written job advice for every career stage: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/350918/20_20_Vision

That lead to http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/350938/When_Gen_Y_Runs_the_Show which lead to a notice about Linked In Career Explorer. (http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2010/10/05/nyu-and-linkedin-celebrate-the-launch-of-career-explorer-feature/) That's not generally available, but the Jobs link is interesting and showed me a stack of software management jobs. Were i to stay in the field, and want to move, it occurs to me that i have interesting skills for Amazon. Not super special, but interesting. (They have openings.) Then i poke at the premium Linked In offerings and find that, ha, for $20/mo you can be branded as a job seeker. Um, no thanks.

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