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[KnottedYet]

Hooray, New York!

[Trek420]

Yeah for New York! In a mere 30 days, the number of US citizens living in states without marriage discrimination will double.

Vermont and New York? If we add the ones with civil unions and everything but the word DP won't it be 8?

A new job for Trek is just around the corner.

I'll remind the guy I interviewed with (in the polite, not nagging kind of way) of his wanting to do a phone interview next week. There's another opening at the Canned Koala Chili Cannery I work for I'm in the running for but I want the one I interviewed for. Not just because I've already interviewed but is a more interesting job at the Organic Free Range Koala Chili Canning Corp. I know, I know, Koala's are very cute but at least these are free range happy Koalas.

I dunno if it's the economy but imperceptibly things seem to be picking up. Even though I have a job and a d@mn good one when pay and bennies are concerned at the ... where am I ... Koala Chili Cannery ... I consider myself unemployed because it's not where I fracking want to be. Responses to my resume have only been for temp jobs. If I got this one I'd be replacing a temp, so is the U job replacing a temp with a perm.

That makes me nervous because Freerange Chili corp is notoriously cheap. I dunno anything about the U culture but I know Chili. Will Koala Chili go "what are we thinking? Temp is cheaper" I hope not.

Both decision makers spoke of a lot of work needing to be done and they'd pulled this and that from budget and won a new perm position.

So have I finally created the winning resume? Am I targeting the right version to the right job? Is it the "buzzwords" because face it your resume doesn't get read by a person till it's pulled out of a huge pile by software.

Or are jobs being created?

[Crankin]

The economy has definitely picked up here. Everyone I know from my grad program has a job. Granted, these are not high paying jobs, but they are professional jobs that are gateways to better ones. The recession seemed to hit only very specific industries in Boston. In the last recession, I knew quite a few high tech or other professional people who were out of work. This time, I don't know anyone who has lost a job. Even my DIL who couldn't find a job in architecture has settled in to being a restaurant manager, and she likes it.

And kudos to NY.

[Pax]

Yay for NY!!!

Trek - I think Deb is referencing population numbers, not total states... NY has a ton of people!

Knott - life will get so much sweeter when you two are under one roof permanently.

[Owlie]

YAY New York!

Ohio, sadly, hasn't really picked up. Of my friends (those who aren't in professional/graduate school), the only ones employed are the ones who studied engineering.

[KnottedYet]

Empire State building last night.

[NbyNW]

Hurrah for New York!

Love the rainbow Empire State Building!

[Dr.Doo]

WooHooo New York...I've just been reading about the good news in the Pink News.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/

[PamNY]

Our state Senator sent an email with the good news at 10:30 on Friday night. I hope the Empire State Building is still a rainbow tonight so I can see it!

[OakLeaf]

Yay for New York! May the rest of the country - and the federal government - follow sooner than later...

[KnottedYet]

Working at Pride today, gotta be there at 7:00 a.m. Too early... (gratuitous whine)

Happy Pride, Everyone!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

[indysteel]

Yay for New York! May the rest of the country - and the federal government - follow sooner than later...

Amen to that, although something tells me that my home state will not be following suit anytime soon.

[Dr.Doo]

Working at Pride today, gotta be there at 7:00 a.m. Too early... (gratuitous whine)

Happy Pride, Everyone!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

A Big Fat Happy Pride to you KnottedYet...I hope everyone has a fantastic celebration

[OakLeaf]

For Christmas my sister gave me this year's Syracuse Peace Calendar. What a blast from the past - I had no idea they were still doing those.

This month's graphic is "Love, Hate and the Law," with a color-coded world map showing the range of laws, from full marriage equality to jurisdictions where homosexuality is still against the law. How very cool to be able to change the color of the state of New York.

[Trek420]

... I hope everyone has a fantastic celebration

I did! I marched in SF pride this weekend with my congregation. I've been going to the parade for years and years and .... and this was incredible.

Huge crowd (it's always big but I had not seen it this crowded in a long time) and so positive. As I overheard one member of our group say "after so many struggles and so many marches and protests it's great to have something to celebrate today".