Unhappy with your occupation? Your dream job could be a few-clicks-and-the-making-of-a-video-away! If you are 100% content with your career, just laugh at the video, leave me a cool comment, and move on. Everybody else: Check out FutureResume.com.
FutureResume.com is a new company I am excited to tell you about. In the same way video dating companies have revolutionized the way people find love, so now FutureResume.com has applied the video concept to job searching and more importantly … job applicant screening. From their about page:
Companies waste a significant amount of time and money searching for and interviewing prospective candidates only to learn what might have been expressed up front in a short video introduction. FutureResume.com simplifies the selection process by allowing candidates to show their personality and professional commitment right on our website.
Folks, if you are out work, looking to change careers, or just starting out, this is the place I would start with a video and the services they offer. To show you how it works, I have made a short video myself for this post. Vote for me here.
This video is part of a current contest which you can enter as well. Here’s the contest details.
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Do you keep a calendar on your fridge? If you’re like us in our house, that’s the place we compare our lives with one another. If Sarah has a doctor’s appointment or the girls have birthdays to go to, we find it all there. That’s where we check ourselves. If a stressful event is coming up, such as moving, which we are scheduled to do May 14th, we all count the days and wonder ethereally what life will be like on the other side. Now if you are a self-improvement junkie like I am, you have probably read a dozen or more books on the aphorism: “Life’s a journey, not a destination,” but it really is true and yet even we can lose sight of it. I am not that old, but I’m old enough to know that the baby clothes that fit today will be in a bag out for Goodwill before you know it.
I ran across this video at Grow Thyself and it really made my evening, reminding me of that little aphorism we say so much as self-improvement junkies. Enjoy!
Is there a destination you “can’t wait” to arrive at? How does this video affect you?
Have a great day, and remember: It’s a journey thing.
Oh my! This one hurts. I have to give credit where credit’s due at the Blogster’s Guild where I saw this one. It’s such a gem I had to embed it directly on my site. Imagine a piano on your chest … rrrrrr.
Lorelle has a blog challenge this week to blog about a time when you felt “big.” I thought it was a perfect opportunity to write a memoir here on when I met two of my all-time life heroes.
The first one was Dave Sharp, ex-guitarist of the eighties neo-punk arena band: “The Alarm.” If you’re age 30 and above, you might recall some of their radio hits: “Sold Me Down the River,” “Rain in the Summertime,” “68 Guns,” “The Stand,” and a few others.
Here is one of their amazing videos from 1984, it still blows me away (check out the hosts’ mullets!)
I had every album memorized. I started listening to his music when I was 13 or 14 and learned all his guitar work by ear. When I joined my own band at age 16, I was throwing out chords and riffs I’d either stolen from him or adapted to my own style. But he was more than a guitar model to me, I identified with what he said in interviews and I tried to model much of my life after things he said either in the media or live in concert (I saw them live about 10-15 times).At age 23, I saw in the paper Dave was coming to town to do an acoustic show. I wanted to meet him personally. Not only because he was so cool, but because I wanted to hire him to play guitar on a single we were recording.
After the show I waited outside a while and soon, Dave emerged with a security guy. He had come out to talk to a few fans and sign some autographs. I met him then, gave him a tape of my music with the proposal inside and within a few weeks, his agent called me accepting my offer.Well, you can imagine the blissful events that followed. I worked with him several days in the studio that year and a couple years later we did another song together. Nothing much became of my music in the mainstream, but the experiences forever changed me. Rock n Roll means more to me than it ever did before. You can hear Dave on guitar on these two songs I wrote and recorded him below:
The second connection I had with a hero was just a few months ago. I am a public elementary school teacher and as a result, I work to increase my students’ scores on the California Standards Test every year. Countless times since I started teaching I have gone to the CDE.ca.gov website and seen the Superintendent of Instruction, Jack OConnell, on the front page. Here’s picture of Jack in my classroom. To the right is Herb Fischer, Superintendent of San Bernardino County.
Jack is the top. Not too long ago, my Principal told me he was coming to visit due to our school’s incredible growth in scores. She told me he wanted to see “EDI” which is a style of teaching we have started doing and that I am a certified coach for. He came in and watched a lesson along with the local paper and all the Principals in the district. I got to meet him and we discovered we both went to the same college, California State University, Fullerton. Wow. It was truly a “big” moment for me and I will never forget the power of working hard for something and then getting recognized in that way.
Apart from the births of my children, those are 2 of my most biggest moments: “XXL.”
It was a great week for reading blogs. As always, I really think you should visit and read these on my safari:
This Eclectic Life
A very colorful anecdote illustrating why she doesn’t believe in new years resolutions. She’s literally a professional storyteller. If you haven’t checked out her writing, go do yourself a favor over a coffee.
Oubipaws.org
Nick’s top Ten Videos of 2007. Some of these are downright hilarious.
Derek Semmler dot com
My main man Derek lists the money he made in a month on his site. This series of his called “Blogging for Money,” used to be one I ignored on his blog. Now, I get monetization tips from it. I plan to give back by listing my income each month as well. If you are interested in making some money online, give this blog a read.
Lorelle on WordPress
Though it was said already on Weblog Tools Collection, Lorelle did us all the favor of letting us know that Wordpress 2.4 will be skipped for now and 2.5 will be coming out as planned. Get the details at this blog.
Scott Wallick and the Best Minimalist Themes at Pl...
I don’t link to plaintxt.org enough. Scott Wallick is a theme designer (artist) that I respect to the umpteenth degree. I changed my theme back to plaintxtblog which I had for a while a few months ago.
Sarah Riley’s Party of Five
My lovely wife Sarah did a lot of research to find 13 ways to get out stains. This is a must if stains bug ya at all! She’s got a lot of other really cool blog posts from the past weeks.
Cheese Enchiladas
Last but not least, if you are interested in reading what I feel is my best post of the week, check out my growing collection of them at my greatest hits blog. This week’s post came to me when I was on the treadmill. It’s about throwing off anxiety and just deciding to be great at what you do.
Looking forward to reading these blogs more, those on my blogroll, and new ones I hope to find. Stay tuned for another safari next week.
I’m not a trekkie, but this is a really cool example of how art can be derived from religion and then become sort of a tradition all its own. This is another example of human invention and I find inspiration in it to be creative and invent more in my world.
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I'm Damien Riley, author and teacher. Here you'll find "think outside the box" posts on psychology and inspiration. 
