michelk.net » life http://www.michelk.net Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:13:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Jobs Jobs Jobs http://www.michelk.net/2009/05/jobs-jobs-jobs/ http://www.michelk.net/2009/05/jobs-jobs-jobs/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 21:34:53 +0000 Michel http://www.michelk.net/2009/05/jobs-jobs-jobs/ It is crazy hard to get a job when you tell people you’re going back to school in the fall. I just finished a 2 hour assessment testing my various Office 2007 (sigh), basic math, and typing skills. Oh, and a grammar test I barely scraped by. I’ll blame that one on school ;)

In any case, this is what I hope to be the first step on a journey to getting myself some summer employment. The stress of not having a job is starting to crack me open!

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I can’t help but make parallels between my iPhone and the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy… With Wikiedia and Google at my fingertips away from home, I will always be able to satiate my hunger for trivial knowledge. I can’t express how happy I am to be living in this day and age!

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On Friday, I managed to excuse myself from study duty to prepare for my new PIC prototyping board which will soon be complete with the arrival of several 18F4520 samples. I can’t wait to start playing with it! A friend of mine had a Facebook status update stating how he wished he could scrobble songs from his record player so I immediately thought of modding one to recognize the record being played and connect with Last.fm to scrobble said track. Sounds like fun :)

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