Archive for August 5th, 2003
by Tom on Aug.05, 2003, under Uncategorized
You know, as I’ve been writing the 10 Job Challenge, it didn’t occur to me that there was a possibility that potential employers might actually read the website and see that I was talking about them. I wanted to write the articles while they were still fresh, and knowing that it was going to be a lot of content, I knew that if I didn’t write them in pieces as they progressed, the project might have gotten too huge for me to sit down and write all at once after the Challenge was complete.
Of course, you run into the possibility that someone who might considering hiring me would go to the website and see the Challenge, which could have an effect on the results. It’s why I gave employers a week to get in contact with me for interviews before there was anything posted about the jobs in question. If I implied anything negative about the job, I would have been called for an interview or have had some interest shown in me before it would have been posted, and most likely would have held off on the posting until such interviews were completed. After I realized which companies had an actual interest in me and which ones didn’t, I posted part 1.
So, for any companies that might be reading this (and I know at least one has)… hi. Feel free to check out the newest article posted to Buhner.com, something special from Scott Salley called Where Is Marge Schott When We Need Her? I’m pretty sure he’s a Reds fan, and not necessarily looking for someone to help out the Israel/Palestine situation.
Something that Scott also brought to my attention was a recent story about a Minnesota Twins superintendent adjusting the ventilation system at the Twins’ home stadium during the late innings of close games in an attempt to get balls hit by the Twins to carry farther. While it can be argued how much this really had an effect with the balls hit at the Metrodome, it brings to mind the Don Mattingly/Kirby Puckett comparison I pulled up in an earlier article. One of the few advantages that Puckett had going for him was his late inning heroics in World Series games, and several writers reference those plays (especially an 11th inning home run in the 6th game of the 1991 World Series against Atlanta) as being important moments that encouraged them to vote for Puckett in Hall Of Fame balloting, something Mattingly never had (having never reached a World Series). If the home runs were truly aided by artificial means, then what else does Kirby have going for him? Has anyone’s career fallen apart so quickly after he retired as Kirby’s has?
