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Nov 19, 2018 01:12AM
That salmon sounds wonderful!
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Pamela wrote: "Allie wrote: "Pamela, how was the curry? I also bought that cookbook even though I haven't done much cooking lately, and the photos are so lovely."Not very spicy, I had to add salt, They must hav..."
I'm pescatarian, so I don't do meat either, but I like to play with meat-based recipes to see if I can make them veggie. I do love to cook, but I'm not very creative with flavors.
Bonnie, that sounds like an amazing meal! Last night I ended up doing a simple curry too - one of the only things I'm confident improvising with whatever I have on hand. Asparagus/onion/squash in curry paste-tinged coconut milk, with pineapple chunks and sriracha over rice.
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Bonnie wrote: "I love to cook, and so does my son. We are under the same roof for the first time in ages, so we have been cooking a lot. We did seared salmon pepper and dill crusted salmon and a maple and cinnamon roasted butternut squash tonight that was really yummy. (I love meat, I wish I had the discipline to give it up, but I really truly love it.)."Years ago when I was super into being a buddhist, I was like "but I love chicken! I can't become vegetarian." Someone said don't allow it at home. And it's been that way ever since- since I try to bring lunch t work, I eat meat maybe 2x a month.
Here's an update on the curry- I went away for T-giving weekend and I came home to my house reeking like curry!
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Bonnie wrote: "Lol! Curry is enduring. If its still in the air. Bake a big batch of sweet potatoes slowly in a 325 oven. If it bakes for a while it counters other strong smells."Sounds good for dinner tomorrow night!
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Bonnie wrote: "Start spreading the news. I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York New York! Thanks you guys for all of your support and encouragement. I got an offer from Cornell today. I will let t..."YAY YAY YAY! Congratulations! Happy dance!
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Bonnie wrote: "Start spreading the news. I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York New York! Thanks you guys for all of your support and encouragement. I got an offer from Cornell today. I will let t..."Congrats Bonnie!
Congratulations Bonnie! That's so exciting!
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Bonnie wrote: "Thanks all! Higher ed moves slow, and this has been a looooong process (I started interviewing with Cornell in August.) I am relieved. I was about ready to return to my old profession, attorney rec..."Happy place is a great place to be! And I'm with you on attorney recruiting- I did that my first couple years after college, it drove me back into grad school!
And I hear you, not having a job is not so hard. Except for the money thing.
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I don't know how anyone does specialist recruitment without being in the field! My husband is an Oracle contractor, and the number of times he's had calls from recruiters who have seen his CV and clearly don't understand what any of it means is extraordinary.
Alicia wrote: "I don't know how anyone does specialist recruitment without being in the field! My husband is an Oracle contractor, and the number of times he's had calls from recruiters who have seen his CV and c..."I was the branch manager- so I rarely did the recruiting, I did the managing of the recruiters! Which is kinda ridiculous if you look at it that they had a 23 year old managing a bunch of lawyers and paralegals,. And that was the structure in all the branches! Clearly it worked as the company was bought by Kelly for a whole lot of money but it seems nuts.
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Bonnie wrote: "That is nuts. Lawyers are hard to lead. I know because I have managed many. Can't imagine how you did it at 23! You must be a great personnel manager."I think it was one of those success by stupidity. I didn't know any better. Plus, this was so not in their brain track and I was so organized that I just handed them things and they said "ok" LOL- I was just thinking about that this morning as I was briefing a couple board members to go have coffee with a potential big donor. Clearly my whole life is about prepping people! I remember doing the exact same briefings back then- and that was before the internet told me the guy had 15 Christmas trees in his other house and yet I still found that info out! I had a massive tracking database and nothing was too trivial for me to put on it. LOL- I just realized I did that at my last job when I sent peer review teams out, everything was recorded so when I needed someone to go to a strange place I had the perfect team of the one member whose favorite nephew goes to college in that town and the other member really likes an obscure cuisine which has a top rated restaurant there. I guess this is my talent in life! I could have been a KGB operative who blackmailed people with all the stuff in my brain, instead I use it to get them to do things!
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I think it was one of those s..."
I am ready to hire you! I am terribly disorganized by nature, and I can do that kind of thing well enough, but you sound like a goddess. Clearly, you were born to be a nonprofit director, but I cannot think of a business where that brain would not be valued above rubies.
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Here were my results: You are conscientious, diligent and pay attention to detail. You constantly strive for accuracy and high standards. You have an inner drive to be systematic and precise in all that you do. You are a natural choice for work that requires attention to detail and accuracy.
Yeah, suffice it to say, I'm reallllllly good at organization. Want to throw a party? I'll organize it. Have a million documents in a pile? I'll fix that for you. I am the Director of Contracts for my company, and I am pretty darn good at my job. Sometimes I just wish I liked what our mission is though...
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I am NOT really good at organization. I need you guys to help!
You would be a great contracts manager, Kris! Government contracts is hard, but it pays really well, and that counts too. As a lawyer I did a lot of work for pharmaceutical companies, (I also did a little work for Glock and Scientology) so I am sympathetic to the mission issue. It can be daunting.
Kris wrote: "Heh, a friend just posted the link to the DISC site test. It's the preliminary 28 question test. https://www.123test.com/disc-personal...Here were my results: You are conscientious, diligen..."
I love these tests! We did one at a job a few years ago and it was so much more accurate than Myers Briggs
I have a friend whose a Director of Contracts at a big defense firm and yeah, she's organized to a crazy level. I'm not really--- I trust I can find what I need. I was horrified the other day I could not find something important and was flipping out when the person who needed it went "oops, never sent it to you!" Phew. If I were better organized, I would have so much more brain capacity!
My results:You are an approachable and understanding person. Your optimism encourages you to look for the best in others. You are likely to be a good listener and offer constructive advice rather than imposing your own ideas and values on others. Developing and maintaining relationships - at work and at play is important to you.
I am a horrid listener! Although I am optimistic to a scary level (although I am also very pessimistic, Present me with a new idea and I will shoot it down. But once I get used to it, I'll be optimistic). Finally had my performance review today-- kinda scary how positive it was, I think some board members told the chair is she made me mad I was ready to leave- but the chair said she wasn't overly concerned about something until I said I was and she said if I was voicing concern instead of cheerleading, we were in trouble. And she's right.
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I Love personality tests. I think I have taken them ALL. Eannegrams, MBTI, zodiac, what color is your parachute, numerology... you name it.
Bonnie wrote: "That is nuts. Lawyers are hard to lead. I know because I have managed many. Can't imagine how you did it at 23! You must be a great personnel manager."I think I did it because I knew no better.
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Bonnie wrote: "(I love meat, I wish I had the discipline to give it up, but I really truly love it.) "That is why I don't cook it. Ive not cooked it for over 20 years. And since I don't eat out that often and sometimes don't want meat, I only eat it once or twice a month at most.
Not sure which thread to put this in so going to put it here. Anyone read The Milkman yet? I just started it and I can't get into it. Given all the accolades, I'm looking to hear from people if I should keep with it, it'll get better or I should say good-bye now.
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Its on my list (I generally read whatever wins the Man Booker), but I will say the reviews, even the positive, have given me pause. Its not that there isn't experimental literature I like. Its not like I tend to read plot-driven work. But. The stream of consciousness ramblings of an unappealing protagonist are not something I normally gravitate toward. The person who sits next to me at work came in yesterday and railed about how much she hated Severance (which won the Kirkus prize, another referral source for me.) Maybe it needs to be the year I avoid the prize winners?
Bonnie wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Not sure which thread to put this in so going to put it here. Anyone read The Milkman yet? I just started it and I can't get into it. Given all the accolades, I'm looking to hear fro..."That;s why I was going to read it, I read Booker winners too. My issue is not even unappealing, it is that the style and language make everything so vague there is nothing to latch onto. For so many reasons I wanted to like it, but the reviews not encouraging and the only friend who has read it, who did love it, is someone I have never agreed on a book about in our lives. She likes painfully poorly written books (she's really into this British imprint that publishes the work of forgotten women writers, a mission I support, but in reading some of them, one realizes why they are forgotten).
Look at you! Person next to you at work and discussing books! sounds like the new job is going great!
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Bonnie wrote: "Aw thanks for saying so. Very very happy so far. And yes, I sit beside a very smart and engaging reader. We had a great discussion about Pachinko (she has lived in Japan and is of Korean descent, a..."That is so wonderful! One day I'l have a good coworker! (I'm back looking furiously)
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January through March is high hiring time, June and September for nonprofits (says the career coach) Most business use the calendar year for fiscal year, so new budgets. Most nonprofits use June-May for the fiscal year, but no one wants to deal with hiring in July and August since so many people are out of the office. Anyway... point is that its a good time to look. You deserve to be surrounded by good coworkers! This may be of no interest, but this came up in a search lately, and I thought it looked like the world's coolest job Director, Louis Armstrong House Museum
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Bonnie wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Bonnie wrote: "Aw thanks for saying so. Very very happy so far. And yes, I sit beside a very smart and engaging reader. We had a great discussion about Pachinko (she has lived in Jap..."I remember the last time that job came up!
I've never seen that resource, or is it just a google search? I feel like each time I look for a new job, the old resources are no longer used and you have to find the new ones! I do hope there's lots of jobs coming up as I don't know how much longer I can last here! Plus, I was in NYC over the weekend and it was so amazing being in a place full of people and life! And I had poke for dinner one night :)
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LOL, NYC and poke! If you are in town and ever want to grab a drink, let me know. We can have a GFY meetup! I was kicking around the West Village Saturday. No poke, but I had some killer fish and chips (at A Salt and Battery on Greenwich Ave.)
The listing was from LinkedIn. Their portal is good for higher end jobs. They don't aggregate listings like Indeed.com (which I also use to see what is out there for clients.) The employers on LinkedIn have paid to be there, so they are serious about hiring. I don't know what resources are best for museum positions but I am sure there are specialized sites out there.
Bonnie wrote: "LOL, NYC and poke! If you are in town and ever want to grab a drink, let me know. We can have a GFY meetup! I was kicking around the West Village Saturday. No poke, but I had some killer fish and chips (at A Salt and Battery on Greenwich Ave.) The listing was from LinkedIn. Their portal is good for higher end jobs. They don't aggregate listings like Indeed.com (which I also use to see what is out there for clients.) The employers on LinkedIn have paid to be there, so they are serious about hiring. I don't know what resources are best for museum positions but I am sure there are specialized sites out there.
In my defense, I had a long day helping my friend run her booth at a show, so was pretty much crawling back to my hotel going "Pizza? Chinese?" and saw poke! Fish and chips sounds good too!
I've started looking at the ads on LinkedIn. some are so weird! I get a whole bunch of recruiter calls from linkedin. And they're by people but the jobs are so unrelated to what I can do (they're mostly high level IT jobs) Im like why are you even wasting your time contacting me? I once got through multiple levels of interviewing for an IT job although I sat there going "I have no clue how to do this but for that money, I'll figure it out!" Something has to come through! It's a waiting game now, can I stay here until I find something?? I must say, I'm so ready to live in a normal community!
Bonnie wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Bonnie wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Bonnie wrote: "Aw thanks for saying so. Very very happy so far. And yes, I sit beside a very smart and engaging reader. We had a great discussion about ..."Just gotta say LOL at A Salt and Battery XD and now I want some fish and chips!
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Its not just a good name, its really good fish and chips! Highly recommended..
Bonnie wrote: "Allie wrote: "Bonnie wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Bonnie wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Bonnie wrote: "Aw thanks for saying so. Very very happy so far. And yes, I sit beside a very smart and engaging reader. We ..."Now you're all making want to go get fish & chips (its one of the few forms of restaurants we have out here)
And update- I'm unemployed! Feels like such a relief! I'm sure I'll change my tune if I don't find a new job soon, but it's been months of misery and stress.
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Hopefully it will be a short unemployment. I am glad for you that you have reduced your stress, and now you have lots of time to look. Are you specifically looking at history museums? Happy to keep my ears open if I know what they are open for.
Bonnie wrote: "Hopefully it will be a short unemployment. I am glad for you that you have reduced your stress, and now you have lots of time to look. Are you specifically looking at history museums? Happy to keep my ears open if I know what they are open for. ."I might be the only person in history who reacted to "your job is ending" with a "good." I feel like I have a new body! I'm sure after awhile the lack of job will get to me but right now I'm just relieved.
I'm looking for anything in the Northeast! Museums or development. Who knows, maybe I should be smart and leave museums as they are really unstable work! One of my mentors said I lasted longer than most people do as the director of a small museum.
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Bonnie wrote: "If you have good development credentials you can work anywhere in nonprofit. There is always a development shortage. I will keep my ear to the ground."Thanks!
Well, about books but I don't know where to put it!It's July next week- who else is doing a Little Life? It's going to look easy for me since I'm currently halfway through a 944 page book (after these two books I am reading a 100 page book)
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Who knows if I'll be there exactly at the start of the monthReading Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, It's really interesting but too long!
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Bonnie G. wrote: "it sounds interesting, but perhaps not 1000 pages interesting"The thing is, it's not really what the title implies. The women are maybe 40% of the book, the rest is 10% social history of US and 50% the male artists of the same time. I have learned ALOT about Pollock. I'm not a fan of abstract art so am becoming extremely educated about it so that is good,
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