{"id":890,"date":"2003-01-27T19:58:53","date_gmt":"2003-01-28T11:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/28\/crossing-my-fingers\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T13:15:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T21:15:57","slug":"crossing-my-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/27\/crossing-my-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing my fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15425,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/jobs.apple.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/WebObjects\\\/Employment.woa&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060610064400\\\/http:\\\/\\\/jobs.apple.com:80\\\/cgi-bin\\\/WebObjects\\\/Employment.woa&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 18:20:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 11:25:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 15:40:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 15:40:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7112,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/retail&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260307002754\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/retail\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:11:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 11:25:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 15:40:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 15:40:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15426,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/jobs.apple.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/WebObjects\\\/Employment.woa\\\/37\\\/wo\\\/Cc5wPmZ9zKx22uohQ9I2msdPoYM\\\/0.4.0.0.31&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/apple.com\\\/pagenotfound&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15427,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/jobs.apple.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/WebObjects\\\/Employment.woa\\\/wa\\\/jobDescription?RequisitionID=1912017&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/apple.com\\\/pagenotfound&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15428,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/jobs.apple.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/WebObjects\\\/Employment.woa\\\/wa\\\/jobDescription?RequisitionID=1912007&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/apple.com\\\/pagenotfound&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been giving a lot of thought recently as to what I want to do in the upcoming months. I&#8217;m currently working as a temp employee at Xerox, which is all fine and dandy, except for two things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/01\/graphics\/greenbutton.jpg\" title=\"The green button!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The green button!\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/01\/graphics\/greenbutton-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"133\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first is simply that after nearly a decade of &#8220;pushing the green button,&#8221; I&#8217;m getting a bit tired of that. Well, more than a bit. It got old a long, long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>The second is that Xerox&#8217;s policy allows for holding someone as a temp for up to 18 months, at the end of which a hire\/fire decision needs to be made &#8212; either they hire the temp on as a full Xerox employee, or they let the temp go to find other things to do with their life.<\/p>\n<p>My eighteen months ends in mid-February, and I&#8217;ve been considering just what to do when the hire\/fire decision is presented to me (that, of course, is assuming that it is presented to me, and they don&#8217;t just opt to kick me out the door). I&#8217;m not entirely convinced at this point that I&#8217;d <em>want<\/em> to sign on to Xerox full-time &#8212; I&#8217;m already pretty tired of playing with copy machines, and to be entirely honest, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m overly highly impressed with Xerox as a company, after my years of working with them both as a customer and as a (pseudo-)employee. Besides, pushing the green button only has so much of a future to it, in and of itself.<\/p>\n<p>So, a while back, I&#8217;d gone poking around <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.apple.com\/cgi-bin\/WebObjects\/Employment.woa\" title=\"Apple - Jobs\">Apple&#8217;s job site<\/a>, as it was rumored that they were going to be opening an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/\" title=\"Apple Store\">Apple Store<\/a> just outside of Seattle, in Bellingham, and I signed up for their <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.apple.com\/cgi-bin\/WebObjects\/Employment.woa\/37\/wo\/Cc5wPmZ9zKx22uohQ9I2msdPoYM\/0.4.0.0.31\" title=\"Apple Jobs | Search Jobs\">job search<\/a>. Tonight I got e-mailed details on four job openings for the upcoming Bellevue store, and decided what the heck &#8212; it&#8217;s worth a shot! So, I&#8217;ve applied for two of the positions: <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.apple.com\/cgi-bin\/WebObjects\/Employment.woa\/wa\/jobDescription?RequisitionID=1912017\" title=\"Mac Specialist\">Mac Specialist<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.apple.com\/cgi-bin\/WebObjects\/Employment.woa\/wa\/jobDescription?RequisitionID=1912007\" title=\"Mac Genius\">Mac Genius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows if anything will come of this, but hey &#8212; it&#8217;s worth a shot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a while back, I&#8217;d gone poking around Apple&#8217;s job site, as it was rumored that they were going to be opening an Apple Store just outside of Seattle, in Bellingham, and I signed up for their job search. Tonight I got e-mailed details on four job openings for the upcoming Bellevue store, and decided what the heck &mdash; it&#8217;s worth a shot! So, I&#8217;ve applied for two of the positions: Mac Specialist and Mac Genius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}