April 5, 2010

Another Attempt: Government jobs?

Posted in Update tagged , , , , at 11:04 pm by Kyle Kratky

This is a looking-ahead post, so updates regarding my First Attempt will not be found here.  Except for this sole bit: it is coming along, but interviewing family can be HARD.

I’m thinking about what I will do for my Second and Third Attempts, and tonight I met at a local diner with an old friend, where she recounted for me her attempts to get rehired with her old government job.  Her efforts have been, thus far, fruitless.  She left this job amicably some time ago, and the reason she can’t get rehired is because of a completely automated scoring system.  A computer somewhere has it out for her.

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January 17, 2010

Culling my Attempts

Posted in Progress tagged , , , at 2:25 pm by Kyle Kratky

As this blog enumerates elsewhere, Twenty-Ten (2010) marks my year-long quest to make the cut on This American Life.  I will execute this plan in Three Attempts.  I’m unsure as yet whether I will set solid deadlines for each Attempt (Complete one every four months?  Work on them all concurrently? Stagger the Attempts?), but I’ll be sure to announce my schedule once I build one.  For now, however, I’m thinking about the material I want to use for each Attempt.

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