Hey all! I'm sorry I haven't posted more often lately, but I am currently in the process of getting a new job. The bank isn't working well for me--it just isn't a good career fit for me. Yesterday, I had TWO job interviews, one at an Internet toy company and the other at a medical publication. I would be a merchandising assistant at the toy company and an editor/graphics person at the medical publication. Both of these positions fit my personality and my background much better than what I'm doing now. Plus, it would be fun to work for a toy company, even though that China recall is a little scary. So, cross your fingers and hope that I get something better (that also earns more money for me as well)!

Oh, and I will have another story to post soon, once things slow down a little bit in my life.

Glad to know you're safe and whole!

Good luck on your interviews. I hope you get a job that is fun AND financially rewarding! $$$

Oh, hurrah! More fanfic!

Best of luck with the job hunt!

'Beth

Thank you, guys!

Good luck!

Good luck on the job hunt. The toy job could be fun, but doing graphics might be fun. Too bad you can't do graphics for the toy company. Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to your next story.

Mine is spinning its wheels in boring land right now. I'm having a technical difficulty but eventually I'll get it worked out.

Job interviews! *shudders * TWO on the same day! I’d have bitten all my nails off with nerves it that was me!
I hope you get one of those jobs. I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Good luck with the job hunt MacsChick! Don't settle for anything that doesn't fit you.
I've made the same mistake once, and boy, am I glad I got out off that company!

Looking forward to your story.

I didn't notice you were less here lately. Maybe that's because I am. Since I'm without my computer I don't have much choice by using a shared laptop. And I got my own job as well now.

Just keep hunting.

Good luck on job hunting! We'll be here...

Lots of luck! I am sure that you'll find something really soon!

I'm also looking for a new place to live, so go figure...it gets even busier! Thanks for wishing me luck, though!

There are beautiful houseboats, you know.

Good luck finding a fitting house and job!

Hi there,

I'm back from my vacation only to read you're leaving the bank. I certainly recommend you working for a medical publication. I was the Chief of the Editorial Office of an international embryology journal, doing all the managerial stuff, copyediting manuscripts, sending them to referees and registering their answers, supervising the typesetting, layouts, and production through the final printed thing: it was great! I learned a lot, even took up Cell Biology classes at the university to have a more thorough understanding of all the processes (Developmental Biology is actually exiting stuff). My boss, who was the Editor in Chief and also Chair of the Cell Biology Dept. at the University, sent to the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and to the University of Helsinki right at the beginning to get some training and through my eight years there, I had the priviledge of attending European Developmental Biology Organization meetings for example; the journal currently has the highest impact factor of all medical journals in Spain.

Ten years ago I said goodbye to that job to enter into a totally different kind of endeavor, as exciting, thrilling, and demanding as you can imagine, but today I read in every day's news about genes, stem cells, or gene therapy that I had already read about a long time ago. Flies, zebrafish, mice, frogs... I could tell you how I adopted one of the Xenopus laevis my boss kept in his lab and how I used to polish its nails bright red!!

Best of luck, anyway

Frogs have toenails? Well, I've learned something new today -- the "African clawed frog", huh?

I just found half a frog outside my back door. Stupid cat. That frog was keeping the Coy company.

Frogs have toenails? Well, I've learned something new today -- the "African clawed frog", huh?

Well, these Xenopus laevis do. They are huge African frogs and are used in laboratories because their eggs are very big and their embryological development is easy to see. Their toenails are black, they live mainly in the water and eat "meat": caw's heart, for instance. It needs to be cut up in little pieces, then thrown into the water and they actually open their mouth and move their legs so that the water will pull the meat into their mouth.

Only if you are interested: the Spanish fly or fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) has traveled in space. One of those experiments astronauts have to perform in 0 gravity.

Hey MacsChick...hope the new job search goes well for you!

Not to hijack, but this seems like a good place to post for me too! I feel like I've been AWOL lately! This summer's been the craziest ever and we've been going through a lot of changes.

I had major 2 trips within a month's period (fun, but exhausting). We spent the summer deciding whether to homeschool kiddo or not...decided to, so I spent the last month filing my paperwork and settling on curriculum. Now to figure out a schedule so we get school done, I can keep my business going, and I can sneak in more MOL time! On top of that, my action figure commission requests are through the roof! So I gotta find time to knock the waiting list down. Who knew my second favorite obsession (MacGyver being the first, though you wouldn't know it lately!) would turn into a job!?

So anyway, I so miss being here! But, don't worry, if you've actually missed me, I hope to be back more soon!

It sounds like your life is beginning to take an interesting turn as well!

I was home schooled for first grade, and I really enjoyed it. My mother was an excellent teacher, and I learned enough to progress several grade levels in some subjects because of her skills. She would have continued doing it, but she couldn't afford to, so I spent the rest of my academic career in public schools. Fortunately, the schools where I live are high quality, with plenty of Advanced Placement and Honors courses, so I felt challenged enough. The only problem was the social component. If I could give you any advice about home schooling, I would tell you to make sure your child sees some friends. It was difficult for me to transition to public school from home schooling, just because it tends to be slightly isolated. I'm sure you'll do a wonderful job, though.

I'm glad your action figures are going well! How fun to make money from something you love! I'm pretty close to getting that job at the toy company, so you never know...maybe there will be room for your action figures there in the future.

Anyway, it was nice to hear from you, too!

busy indeed...

Wow, I just bet a job at a toy factory would be lots of fun! Good luck

I homeschooled my son for grades 7 and 8 (after 2 bomb scares in his junior high school in Las Vegas)

It was hard, and fun and very rewarding! Good luck! And have fun!

Hey cool to see some people with some kind of experience with homeschooling! I'm looking forward to actually starting our "official" schedule, but we already have 10 days in...lol, and his public school wouldn't be starting until September 4!

Macschick, I'm glad you had those oppertunities for challenge in school. That's part of why we decided to homeschool. Kiddo's smart, but second grade was really disappointing because he learns best actively and that just didn't happen in his class. He stopped being excited about school and barely got by. On top of that he had bully issues that the school never dealt with, spent 2 hours EVERY DAY on the bus, and there was a lot of bad influence.

Already I see him being more excited about learning and every time I bring home something for schooling he can't wait to open it up, read it, whatever. I can tell I'm going to have a hard time keeping up with his reading! He bought a junior novelization of the Transformers movie (a VERY cleaned up version!) with maybe 100 pages...he read it 3 times in one day. He's also reading books I never read until I was in 5th or 6th grade!

I think we'll do ok with socialization. He gets lots of interaction with other kids from church, school friends, neighbors and one we join the co-op lots of group field trips and such. He's even taking a public art class at our local arts council. We also want to get him into baseball (he's got a great arm!) and boy scouts and maybe some kind of martial arts. You know...all the stuff he never would have time for if he was in public school! lol.

haha...cool! Hope you get it soon!