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five job leads dead

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2002.02.15

I managed to finally get a-hold of some of the people with whom I've been chasing job leads. I managed to get word that one way or another, no fewer than five of them were dead. One hire cancelled, two hires frozen, one place that's decided to only 'hire' for new positions internally, and one turned out to be somewhere I couldn't commute to and wouldn't move to.

rand()m quote

When destiny comes to a man from outside, it lays him low, just as an arrow lays a deer low. When destiny comes to a man from within, from his innermost being, it makes him strong, it makes him into a god…

—Hermann Hesse