Magic Pot of Jobs

A little side rant before I get to the real content- some of you are so intent to get in touch with me despite the broken comment form (yes, I know, I’ll fix it tomorrow night when I have time) that you dig up my gmail address, which isn’t given anywhere on this site that I can find, and email me there. Heaven only knows where you keep finding it- I think I might have mentioned it once. On a different blog.

Anyway, the problem with this is that I don’t actually USE that email address for anything- which is why I don’t give it out- so your emails sit there for days or weeks or even months in some cases before I see them. Much better to use the email address I actually HAVE given in several posts (it’s tiffany -at- this domain right here). Or hey, the contact form that’s linked in the navbar for that very purpose. (Occasionally people complain that it’s broken, but I’ve never had a problem with it in any of my tests.)

I’ve been quiet for just about a month now. I had nothing to say that I could safely put out on the Internet. But now I can, so here goes:

It’s official. I’m not going to be a recruiter anymore.

My job took a turn for the, shall we say, significantly less enjoyable a few months ago. There’s a long story behind that statement, and I might even get to tell you about some of it when I have more time, but suffice it to say that I haven’t been happy for months and have been actively looking for a new situation.

I found my new situation- I’ll be working on web content/strategy for a nonprofit here in DC, and I start next week. No more recruiting, for a variety of reasons.

So now I have to figure out what to do with MPOJ. I don’t plan to take it down anytime soon- there’s a lot of useful stuff in the archives that I plan to leave up even if just for people to find through Google. And while I can now write some posts about my own job search experience and frustrations, I probably won’t have much in the way of new things to say on the topic of employment and recruiting for long.

So I’m taking suggestions. What should happen to this space? I’ve been pleasantly surprised and touched by how many of you have expressed your fondness for my little ranty corner of the web, so it seems like maybe you’ll have some good ideas for where I should go next.