Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Cul-de-sac

Today, I finally decided to call the APEC (Agency for the Executives Employment) because I'm supposed to be an executive as I have a Bac+5 (5 years of studies after High School).

I wanted to know how we could book an appointment with a counselor BUT I understood that I'm definitely in a cul-de-sac exclaim after what the woman told me on the phone.

I'm not a "newly graduated" because I have had my diploma 1 year and a half ago and you're considered Jeune Diplomé the 1st year after your diploma but I'm not even considered an executive because I haven't work as one since I graduated:
Yes, of course, that's what I've been trying to do but I only managed to work as a "simple" employee so far and that's why I wanted some help from the APEC!).


And today, our lovely President says that the French government may harden its help to the job seekers: if they refuse two "reasonable" job offers, they could receive "sanctions"!... mmhh neutral Thanks, that was so easy to get an appropriate job, it will me more fun now...

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Scrat is back!

Here is a little preview of the next Ice Age movie!! Released only in Summer 2009!!! Such a wait! rolleyes

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Monday, April 07, 2008

From thongs to moonboots


Do you remember last year, April 2007, in Europe? We had an early summer cool, that lasted for about 6 weeks (then the calendar summer was more ugly sad).

I remember going to visit a pregnant friend with other friends, we were all with flip flops, begging for cold drinks, driving windows wide open, etc.

Well, this morning, we had... snow!! eek It only stayed the whole morning but, what a contrast!

Who knows what the weather will be for the rest of Spring 2008...


Update: I discovered that "thongs" refer to the underwear AND the flip flops. However, in France we say "tongs" for the flip flops. Thanks Marianne for bringing that up! I learned something tonight! mrgreen

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Sunday Chilling Sunday


Have you ever had real chilling days? You go to bed at night full of good intentions and when you wake up on Sunday morning, you just can't get up so you decided to stay a little bit longer in bed and have an hour more resting that finally turns out to be two hours...

When I got up this morning, I felt even more tired and dizzy that if I had gotten up earlier as I usually do.

It was already 11:30am and I had to eat, cannot eat lunch just after so I made myself some ameliorated breakfast, but it didn't made me feel better. I allowed me some more relaxing time, as I thought I was gonna be okay later on but I felt tired and dizzy confused all day long, that was not cool, I didn't manage to do anything I had planned like going to the fitness club in the morning and job applying in the afternoon, that's why I didn't plan to go out, as it was also forecasted to rain.


What can you do on such a lazy day? Watch TV.... watch MTV! I wasn't a fan of this channel 2 years ago but a friend of mine kept talking about it and its crazy show so I started watching it and yes, I also like to watch crap! But sometimes, I do emphasize on sometimes (!), it feels good when you wanna relax, forget your problems or when you're not feeling good to do anything else. I had never stayed on MTV a whole afternoon during the weekend so I didn't know, there were so many shows, you can see

- "Date my Mom" - a guy has a date with 3 girls' moms and then decides which girls he's gonna go out with without meeting them before;

- then there was "Made" about a common very shy High School girl who wanted to become a beauty pageant, then a girl who wanted to take part in a skate competition

- "My Life", today it was about some teenagers who would spend a months in a summer camp to lose weight, after that there was a special "My Life" about teenagers that spent a weekend in detention for small charges;

- "My Sweet Sixteen" today as about another irritating spoiled 16 years old rich girl who organized a huge party for her birthday and got, as usual, a big car. I never get to understand why it is such a tradition to buy 16 years old kids a car, in the US? When I was in the US in 2000, that was something that really shocked me. In France, first you can drive by yourself when you turn 18 but very few people have a car to themselves, we mostly drive our parent's! And that's already a big thing! But I guess, that's just the way it is, even for non-rich families.

- the famous "Dismissed" followed, for the novices, a girl/boy has a date with two opposite sex persons (sometimes homosexual dates) and after that decides who he/she is going to go out with and dismiss the other one. And I have to say that some young people really don't have lots of inhibitions...

- "The Pick Up Artist" led by some guy named Mystery, will teach a group of loosers some tips in flirting, how to behave with women, etc. Each week, one of the guys is eliminated after having "failed" the thematic test.

- Finally, another alien show is "The X Effect", 2 exes spend a weekend together in a resort hotel while each other's partner together will secretly be in near bungalow watching and hearing almost everything. At the end of the weekend, each ex will decided if he/she wants to stay his/her partner... there can be surprises!...


At the end, it was a real wasted day but as not feeling allright, I don't see what I could have done more so, thanks MTV. wink


Now, I'm gonna go to bed soon because I'm still tired...

Friday, April 04, 2008

Disillusionment


WTF*!! Last week I had an interview for a assistant buyer job. I did not have any interview for a while so I was glad I had been called. I'm mostly looking for an international job in publishing, events organization or marketing in general, but the mission seemed interesting, in a very interesting international firm dealing with mobile phones and accessories (so something "in"!).

I had an appointment with the part-time agency Vediorbis that was dealing with this firm near Opera and then I had a 2nd interview with a woman from the firm and it went well, I thought I had my chances, really... The woman from the part-time agency even told me that they had appreciated my profile. Anyway, I really hope it would work because it was a permanent employment contract and the job, the team seemed nice, in a neighborhood of Paris I love...

They were interviewing three people this week and taking their decision today. I was already picturing me working there and, thus, didn't do much "job applying" this week I admit. I just had news from the agency this afternoon and the firm chose another candidate with who there was more "feeling". I'm very disappointed but okay, back on the track! sad
I didn't talk about this to anyone except my niece (she's 21 years old) by superstition but I guess it just didn't have to work.

Fate...

Sometimes, I wonder why destiny has chosen this path for me, it really sucks. I wish this situation to nobody, it makes you feel like sh** and lose hope at last. But no, you can't, you have to keep going, keep faith, be strong, win this battle to finally have a place in the jungle working market!

I called myself "a lost frog" in the title of my blog cause I don't understand what's going on and going wrong with me...

It's hard to be an unemployed old-newly graduated young person nowadays! redface


*the English speakers will succeed to decode that swear word