Job search front

[chanaleh]

So, while I'm not in a huge hurry to find a job, I am interested in getting going, as I have enjoyed not worrying about money for the last several years and am keen for us to stay in that zone. :-}

So far, in the last couple days, I have:
- updated my resume (including expanding it from one to two pages, finally bowing to the times and/or my actual 20+ years of work experience) and associated suite of documents (writing samples, references)
- updated and made public my resume on Monster.com
- applied to four jobs, three of them at the same place (the local newspaper)
- perused Craigslist and JewishJobs.com (nothing promising at the moment in either place) as well as Monster and LinkedIn
- answered one email from a recruiter
- glanced at online PHP/SQL programs (this is an area I'm thinking seriously about pursuing further training)
- applied for instant online ordination from the Universal Life Church Monastery (not directly job-related at present, but I've kind of always wanted to do it and figure it might be a direction in which I could expand)

On the to-do list:
- update my website and online portfolio
- add some content to my professional blog
- do the next round of revisions on a book layout job
- work up a new design piece on commission
- on the home front, start working with etrace on our new and expanded business plan, marketing plan, and website

Additional creative (not job-related) projects I would like to do soon:
- add etrace's trip photos to the Epic Road Trip Honeymoon album on Flickr, and add captions to the photos
- pick up again the habit of morning pages (from Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way)
- for that matter, actually read The Artist's Way
- beta-read my friend Michael's musical that he just sent me
- overall, stay off Facebook in order to spend more time creating and/or writing (but LJ is OK, because it's more like actual writing ;-)

But right now I'm going to go take a long walk. Back later.