Upon further inspection he noticed a marked disparity between the costs of brain meats. A carpenter's brain sells for $1.50 per pound. A plumber's brain sells for $2.25 per pound. He noticed with alarm that a politician's brain sells for $375.00 a pound. With not a little curiosity he asked the owner why the huge difference in price between the similar meats.

The owner responded with a deadpan look on his face, "Do you realize how many politicians it takes to get a pound of brains?"

Wow!! That was tough.

I've explained that I am losing faith in the functionality of monster.com and the rest. Their main function is to help HR people manage the spam, ie, eliminate as many resumes as possible.

With this in mind, I enlisted the aid of a friend that is a sales training consultant and asked him to guide me in taking a more forceful approach. We spent some time together and it became clear that the meaning of "forceful approach" is that I had to actually take my physical body out on the road.

Well, that was Thursday and Friday I strapped on my glad rags, got on the subway, and went to Google's Chicago office. I presented myself to the receptionist and pumped her for information. I now know the identities of the local decision makers and a bunch of other information about the office.

The lady told me the best thing to do was to mail these guys a letter. I thought, nope, I'll call them on the phone. More immediacy is good. Imagine my distress when I found that the Google phone system is absolutely opaque if you don't know the direct dial for a person. Ouch!

Then, while I'm trying to decide if it will work to go down and talk the receptionist lady out of some direct dial numbers, a friend calls, one of you newsletter people, to see if I can help him with something (you all should keep that I would love to find ways to help you, please call asap). As the conversation develops, it turns out he went to college or something with a bigshot at Google in Chicago!!! This guy has been there long enough so that his email address is just his first name, no last initial or anything.

Well, I still couldn't get through by phone, but I sent an email. I'm so excited.

So, this is the next phase. I'll work Google for a couple of days (while I try to get something done on this freelance project!) and if that doesn't work, I'll go to the JC Whitney office and talk the receptionist out of some information.

Very empowering experience and get this, that Friday night, I won at poker, too! Karma is precise.

Thanks for your help!

Sincerely,

tqii

I told you the story of Google and my new physical job hunt. Very cool stuff.

Otherwise, it's a quiet week that still makes me think that it's the middle of summer and everyone is asleep.