Movin and groovin

So this is the first time I failed to follow a proper schedule. I hope you, the reader are cool with that and don't drop completely off the radar but anyway a couple weeks ago I moved back to my hometown for a little while (I claim temporary insanity) .

Anyway I'm going to be back on the job search like a bloodhound pretty soon. I'm much closer to moving to the land of snow and igloos, though I'm throwing a couple applications here since moving there is subject to a couple factors before I’m comfortable with moving there.

So anyway onto the social media question, I've been following Dexter and in the show there is often swearing (no way around it) the character Debra Morgan has one of the most foul mouths on television so why when the goal of their social media is to get people to watch the show do they care so much about the swearing?

MY only guess is that it’s unprofessional but it’s still odd because I'm sure the best way to gain interest is to have writing that reflects the atmosphere of the show.

Anyway that’s my $00.2

I'll be posting back on the regular schedule in the new year !

Listening to - Seabear

Cold&Bold

Hello all, as you know I've been looking for a job with some ferocity in the past few weeks
Well anyway this last week and a bit has been all about interviews , good news is I think I've struck something (fingers crossed , don't want to jinx it though technically I don't believe in those things) With that said , my latest opportunities are all pretty awesome , there's the social media internship though it pays poorly it pays and its something I love.

Canada: The buildings are hidden under the snow.

In other news , I'm somewhat broke but not quite at the gnawing- at- tree- branches broke stage yet . When I get to that point loyal reader , you will be the first to know I will have stopped writing in English and started babbling about the end of all things. James Lefebvre suggested I start a jam fund on my blog , If I don't get a job soon that is what i feel I shall do . though it may make me a charity case , straw berry jam is worth every moment of it.

ANYWAY .

The situation between crazy roommate and landlady has come to a standstill , it is quiet too quiet to be honest , and I'm pretty sure it's going to become a spy versus spy situation up in this house poisonings and all that madness .

Some things I've discovered in the past few weeks

My roommate sleepwalks - I had clean dishes in the fridge to prove it -Also he is a loud sleep walker.

That if I play videogames for more then two hours I have strange dreams. Last night I was a wizard . it was brilliant , not the harry potter kind though more like a traditional one.

Listening to : Fanfarlo-I'm a pilot

Max the what ?

So I've been scurrying to find a new place in the last couple weeks but well, it hasn't been easy.

There have been 3 major locations that I've been Interested in and needless to say

- Living with one of my friends here - North York - Problem ? the landlord might want it for storage

-Nice people on Bloor - A bit more expensive though but only by a little bit.

- Cool apartment on Queen above a cafe - On queen - excellent location , though the room was small , guess it had been taken since the posters didn't respond to me. mostly mentioning this to give you the image of a version of me lives above a cafe: paints , Speaks French , drinks fine wine and dresses like a mime. though who am I kidding ? I can barley finger paint :) i guess this is the french half of me that's coming out.

- I could move back to Windsor then out of the city in the new year. Just a thought . I dont know yet.

Anyway onto the continuation of the drama between my roommate and landlady . Apparently there is going to be a hearing on the 25th , I cannot make this insanity up. My jaw has officially hit the floor , I mean seriously ? court ? If I would have known this was going to happen well , I would have cleared off before the guns started firing so to speak.

Now that that's all out of the way , I'm going to have to sadly inform you my medicine testing career is dead in the water . It's too bad , maybe I'm just not qualified enough meh, it happens.

But thankfully I'm still qualified for " max the mutt animation school"
Disclaimer : instead of a diploma they may just laugh at you when graduating.

Listening to: I think Ur a contra - Vampire Weekend

Smores and Wars .

It's been another interesting week for me and thanks to the violation of a fire code of some sort I have to move out by the end of the month.

As usual I'm going to make this blog about me , but obviously it’s also about all the people that have fought for my ability to write and live anyway I choose . So thank you veterans for helping me continue to enjoy these things.

So anyway onto how things got the way they are. I think it's pretty obvious I don't get along with one of my roommates (Specifically the one I insinuated might be a murderer) and I know it's my landlady’s fault for not following all the codes (makes sense) but having to move again really really is not my cup of tea. I did not exactly sign off on being a nomad moving from place to place, I can’t wait to get a job again and gain a little stability.

Enough of me being sombre . I'm still looking for work and I’m starting to branch out into EVERYTHING , because I might as well have fun while trying to get my career in order. Obviously I need it because my life has been a little insane lately and I might as well amass amusing experiences to write about so I can get better at them.

I am qualified for ALL OF THEM.

MUHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA

Anyway, I have had two employment related interviews in the last week so I seriously hope I hear from their place soon. Ether of these opportunities would help prepare me for the future (yes that includes Best Buy). I think I’ll just go with the flow for now as all I really want is a job that would make me happy. That will take some time.

However, considering my career path still feels like it’s on a very advertising trajectory I'd love to end up at OMD. OMD has an excellent reputation as a media agency and I think I’d make quite the planner ( as a media planning assistant I would not be calling all the shots and I would be doing quite a bit of learning but does any recent grad call the shots ? no ).

If my blogs recently tell you I’m unsure as to what I want to be it’s because I am. I have so many things floating around in my head I just need to get out and they are for the most part creative endeavours, it’s weird that I never desired to be in creative but I think that’s where I fit. Tragic really , Since I Don't have a portfolio and just want a respectable office job .Oh well, if it takes getting out of school and a little bit of living to fully realize where I want to be so be it. Other things im passionate about are digital and social media marketing but heck thats going to take some time to mature and really become a respected category of course most of the agencies know this by now and just consider it a cog in a cohesive machine instead of pointing to some guy and saying "he handles digital" which does not amount to much of a strategy at all.

Listening To: Blind Pilot (the whole album is amazing start to finish)

The Stranger Ranger

Well last night was one of the best adventures I've had for less than 20$ and I’ll tell you strangers can be awesome. For instance my friend had a comedy night and tickets were 6$ but since Absolute comedy is reserved seating I was pretty screwed . However a group of people I didn’t know at all adopted me for the night pretty much.These strangers turned out to be pretty cool I mean other then the fact that I didn't always know what they were referring to (as happens with groups of strangers).

And no , I never learned not to talk to strangers and yes , I know how bad that is. I've actually had alot of positive stranger related experiences one day I might share a few with ya'll but some highlights were : meeting a lady who ran a copy writing company , getting a sand which from a nice lady when I was still making trips to and from Ottawa and getting something for my cold from another person.

With that said i'm a pretty good judge of character , I'd like to think i can pick a serial killer out of a lineup , and if not at least narrow down the suspects.. hmmm maybe I'll be a detective .. it will be awesome but first I need a dark back story , oh and a fedora... I'll get moving on that but for now , a panel for your entertainment.

Pictured: it was a dark and stormy night.

As for the show itself , my friend was pretty great on stage and it was a mostly consistent night . I hadn't been out in awhile so it was good to be back .

As I sit here typing my crazy possible axe murderer roommate is arguing with my landlady. I don't find this to be a major issue but it does make for awkward moments , their passive aggressive battles are coming to a head , this is rapidly escalating to war . For instance I woke up to my locks being changed but to be more descriptive my locks were actually being taken out , gone , deleted . Why ? My semi crazy roommate called in saying the place was a fire hazard , then of course I had to hear them argue all night.

My roomate wrote in crazy:

"stop being cheap and fix it , you have more problems coming"

I'm still working on the job situation of course , Next week I will be dropping by OMD and see if I can rain awesomeness on them therefore convincing them to make me a Media Assistant. Of course i got my mind on as many opportunities as possible.

Music : Cheer me up thank you - new buffalo

Food situation : Lately, I’ve been eating can be described as mystery munchies or “whatever I can find in a cupboard and mixing it together”

Corn on the Jobs

Yeah i know still going with food puns , how lame :P

Pictured: Winning the Lottery

Anyway next week is going to be intresting

since ill be applying not just for traditional jobs but and - wait for it

ANYTHING THAT PAYS BABY

There's this research lab that is looking for a human guinea pig and im going to sign up , heart pills , OH YEAH, experimental kidney dialysis pills HECK YES , different variations on Viagra BRING EM ON ! (or bring em up if you're reading this ladies ;) )

this man needs to eat !

*beats chest like ape*

Speaking of needing to eat I've been filling my nutritional requirements with mushrooms that have been growing in my backyard.

Jason OUT

music :arcade fire : neighborhood#1 tunnels

Kraft Dinner Winner

Nothing I did today could prevent it from being a semi failure. Mostly because the KD I made fell into the sink as I was trying to pour out the extra water . Without a strainer, KD is an art (though it is well known that uncooked KD can be an art too) .However on the flip side of the coin I had double the Cheese powder and I can honestly say it was perfection in a bowl when I went to make my second one (well in a pot but keep that between us I cant afford to look TOO low rent now can I ?) .

Not Pictured: Common Sense

(I found this where the METRO newspaper is supposed to be)

Anyway , my morning didn't go exactly as planned because of the detective work involved in figuring out who stole my cans of pop. I suspect it was my Semi - Scary possible axe murdering roommate who shall remain unnamed . When i confronted him about it he said he would replace the cans ( i guess he has a shred of humanity) but denied the theft which is interesting.

Before i told him about it i had Messaged my landlady who also offered to replace the cans so honestly i don't know WHAT is going on here .I mean maybe shes trying to keep the peace but it sure makes a man suspicious .

I wish this was more like a Scooby Doo mystery then there would be clues and other cool stuff . Also i'd get to set a cool home alone style trap for the thief and be done with it but the closest thing to Scooby Doo we have here are 2 yappy dogs (yap #1 and yap#2).

Let me tell you they do not pass .

Stay tuned !

I plan on analyzing metros latest campaign pretty soon

Music: World News - Local Natives

Hams and Scams

I just wanted to say thank you to my wonderful grandparents for providing me with some much needed food (Canned Ham) and yet more peanut butter (still no j) but I have crackers so that will work well for me .

Pictured: Filet Mignon For the employment deficient

Anyway , I had two interviews today both of them at a company that sells carbon offsets in the deregulated energy industry. (it was not advertising but you take what you can get) before I dive into specifics I'd like to say a couple things:

1) I had interest because I'm a great believer in what Carbon offsets can do for the energy industry and the world ( help modernize , bring technology and industry together among other things like keeping us all alive and the earth in good condition) NEVER MIND what a green designation means for a company (positive pr and making a difference).

2) The ads didn't say much at the time ( they advertised decently paying positions so I called and asked questions) and they basically gave me an interview on the spot , I don't want to complain , if I can get interviews like that then great for me, But I was sort of wondering why is this so easy ? However I didn't want to be the one to miss out on an opportunity to have paid work so i took the interview.

So fellow grad that brings us to NOW

I went down to the office building (Located near Fairview Mall which was not too far from my last job and still not far transportation -wise) and got there early like i was asked . Anyway I get there and sit down and i'm handed an application form ( so far, so good whatever works for them.)

And lo and behold, someone sits beside me interviewing for the same position , let's just say he was not properly dressed ( for ANY interview I go with a healthy dress pants , dress shirt and tie combination) and by not properly dressed I mean his clothes were the whole nine yards of dirty other then the lack of presentation overall shown by this man.In fact , I'm pretty sure we were all lucky the guy decided to wear pants anyway this was an apt description of most my competition sadly.

Interview #1

I get called in , I sit down and quickly find out this was not the customer service position as I was led to believe over the phone. It was *drum roll please* a Commission based Sales opportunity. Now before i go any further , I am okay with a sales job . A sales job may even be in my future career path and pay for performance is a very fair way of compensation however, this job is 1) door to door and 2) there is NO base salary

This first interview did not go so well because before I went into the building nobody had told me which company I was interviewing with they had just told me when and where to be and who I was interviewing with that was my first bad sign by the way

Interview #2

Now this interview is for the same company , so my impression of this second one was a bit tainted , by this time i figured it was another commission based sales opportunity but I was never told , more like sidestepped around the issue instead. I was told it was a sales opportunity selling green energy to business clients so other then my previous impression playing into things so far so good.

THEN I HEAR THIS -

"you could RUN your own office within a year of working for us"

I bet if any higher ups are reading this right now, they are chuckling , as if I was in the position to offer an office to anyone it would not be 1) Mr. new grad and 2) to someone I was interviewing.

I'm sorry , no matter how good the opportunity this is just blatant shenanigans.

Anyway , if this was an opportunity I was not so skeptical about I would say this interview went very well . too bad something smells awfully fishy.

POST-Interview

Armed with a company name I looked them up - they did indeed have a bad reputation of high pressure sales , nasty unfair contracts and a weak BBB score . Not to mention employees getting a low - nothing return for their time investment (these employees also worked up to twelve hours)

TWITTER Generation summery of this post: I Got a couple interview's with an energy company , turned out to not be legit. Company had a bad reputation.

Peanut butter and jobs

"I knew I was in trouble when after a week of eating pb and j for a week , I was out of the j"- Me

Pictured - Sad lack of J

Hello world , As my profile might have hinted at I am in the middle of the most massive job hunt my young life has ever experienced . With that said I wouldn't mind taking you on this strange little adventure . My situation is a little tough but as a semi optimistic young grad I am not overly worried yet.

Besides, unless my roommate flies off the edge (hes sort of scary) I'll be safe . Right now I am lacking in ambition a bit , I don't even mind being under employed but I'm not even that !

With that said , being jobless in Toronto is not the best situation . So whats an Ad grad to do ? Everything I can :)