Recovery continuing! \o/ Also, job?

[azurelunatic]

Naps are eating less of my life, which is good.

Sitting at weird angles which puts pressure on the abdominal incisions still feels unpleasant; I adjust my position fairly quickly when I notice, but it's not an immediate twitch.

Job applications have resumed with moderate confidence; I feel as though I might be able to interview next week if I got nibbles. I don't think I could be balls-to-the-wall until September, but as soon as I'm able to resume yoga ball I'll be building back my stamina.

I'm looking in the SF Bay Area, but leaning towards something that wouldn't expect me to stay there for more than two years or so. I'd also be open to remote work. Nobody pays to relocate an administrative assistant, but my feet are getting a little twitchy. (I love the Bay Area, but daaaaaaaaaaaaang is it expensive.) Climate-wise, I'd be considering parts of the Pacific Northwest that aren't hugely inclined to snow. Socially, I like near big cities, but I'm enough of a car creature to prefer suburbs.

I'm an office minion with a talent for discovering bugs and other usability problems from the user-end of your software while using it, and I can file coherent bugs and talk with the dev team. I can do helpdesk work. I can make you coffee, order you office supplies, and plan events. I can juggle your calendars, too, and write coherent documentation. I can attend the needs of managers and make sure they have their equipment in order, their travel plans filed, their receipts combat-scrapbooked in order for submitting, and similar.

Anybody looking for someone like me? :)

Comments

[lone_lilly]

I have nothing specific to offer but I find that a lot of times people don't consider hospitals when they are looking for non-clinical work and they are almost always hiring. Pay ranges from decent to pretty good (depending on the size of the hospital/corp of course) and they usually have great benefits packages.

Either way, good luck! I'm glad the healing continues apace!

[xenacryst]

Have a look at what's open here: http://pandora.com/static/careers/location-oak.html. Yeah, there's a lot of "senior wrangler of highly esoteric snigwidgets," but there's almost always something much more like a regular human. If there's anything appealing, let me know and I can poke appropriate people here.

[alatefeline]

"senior wrangler of highly esoteric snigwidgets,"

So THAT'S what's always hiring everywhere! If only I'd known in time to major in it. (Not really; I like my field.)

[alatefeline]

I can't hire you, but if you should happen to be in the Portland area, I'd be happy to meet/host you for a few minutes or a few days.

[tim]

https://www.google.com/about/careers/ has a few Administrative Business Partner positions open. Let me know if you're interested and I can put in a referral for you! (Mostly in Mountain View, it seems, but check San Francisco too -- or Seattle, for that matter, if you're interested in moving.)

[azurelunatic]

Aha, it looks like they have relaxed their requirements on degrees. I certainly have equivalent practical experience. I'll let you know when I apply and what email address I've used.

I'm interested in Bay Area in general, but I like the idea of working at a place that's got a location in Seattle.

[tim]

If you haven't applied yet, don't, and forward your resume to me at tjch at google.com first -- that way I can submit it in our internal system and I'll get a referral bonus if you get hired :D

[asciident]

If you're willing to consider moving to Washington, we (as in the entire state government system) are hiring lots of admin assistants and office assistants. Of course the Seattle area is pretty expensive, but jobs in Thurston County (where we are in Olympia, the state capital) or possibly even Clark County should pay reasonably well for cost of living in suburbs.

http://careers.wa.gov/

[azurelunatic]

Huh!

I'd be willing to consider it over the next year or two, but I'm about to re-up my lease here.

[nadyne]

I'm so glad that you're recovering so well!

I do happen to know a team that has a need for temporary call center staff, which would run October through January or February (with potential to go beyond that if it works out). My biggest caveat is that this is an early job, starting at either 5AM or 6AM, and I recall your preferred hours being somewhat later than that. If I'm wrong on that front, you know how to reach me.