Sous le ciel bleu

Les fleurs éclatent comme les danses du soleil sur eux. Printemps opère avec magie.

Anglais: Flowers erupt as the sun dances on them. Spring works its magic.

More correct French: Les fleurs éclatent pendant que le soleil danse sur elles. Printemps opère avec magie.

Employment Woes Part II

So far this year, I have applied directly to 27 job postings for which, according to the job description, I am qualified on paper and in reality I could do perfectly well. So far this year, not one request for an interview. So far this year, mostly dead silence. I have been called by recruiters about various other jobs, but locations are sometimes crazy for contract work (Rapid City for two months?) or the job description does not suit me at all or the pay rate is comically low.

For people laying claim to the same job title as I, many of us share something: there are many of us. We are part of an ample supply all seeking a piece of a demand that is somewhat less ample. Since the demand knows this, they can collect resumes with no sense of urgency and they can cherry pick. Who can blame them? Better to be on the demand side when the supply is ample.

But I must persevere. I must be patient. Patience is a virtue. Good things come to those who wait. The Lord helps those who help themselves... wait, does that mean those who help themselves are the Lord? Oh Lord, what Pandora's box am I opening now? But what care I if the sager sort my deeds reprove? I shall not weigh them, for they are of no substance, but even a vapor that appeareth for a time and then vanisheth away.