AT&T Training - Day 8 of 49

Today was my first right along day and it was not so bad. My manager is nice and get along with her so far. I was a bit disappointed the guy did not let me be more hands on then I wanted to be. Like our instructor said these guy was not care less if you sat in the truck all day.

I asked to do stuff but he kept denying. Today we had a large install of 6 Set Top Boxs, Internet and VoIP. AT&T Allocated 8:53 (9 Hours) to this install we got it done in 7 1/2. We got 3/4th the way though and the installer got a phone call the person on the other end told him his Uncle Died (He called him his god father.). We were done before quitting time which would mean we would go on to a second install at 3:30. (he said there was still 25 installs left in the pot.) He called his manager who said he could go home early and she sent me home to. But I could be getting over time the rest of this week.

I NEED A NEW CAR!!!. I was on my way home and out of no where my car quit on me 3/4th the way home. Plus I got me self stuck in the turn lane. Finally a cop came and called a car with pusher bars. He activated the emergency signals on the traffic light and then was about to pushed me into the wendy's packing lot down the road then the cars in the right lanes tried to go since the light was green but the jeep cop (The first cop) ran up in front of the cars honked his loud horn at them. (Sounded like a ambulance horn.) The cop pushed me in the parking lot then drove off.

If anyone has some good leads on a newer Mustang Convertible for under $5000 please let me know. My dad and me went to a dealer in Calumet City on Saturday and they had a 2005 Red Ford Mustang Convertible. So it had the new body style for $12997. It was over my budget but if I was approved for a good payment I would have taken a deal like that since I am making good money with AT&T. I should be getting a $500+ paycheck on friday. SWEET!!!. The dealer said I did not even score but he said they use TransUnion but Experian came back on my credit check with a 643 score.

Sayonara,
C3

AT&T Training - Day 5 of 49

I am now officially certified by the American Red Cross to administer CPR. I am glad today is over with and done. Now I got a two day weekend off. Then report on Monday to my garage for my first week of ride along. Today we got to play around with some Uverse Systems for about 1.5 hours in a different class room since CPR was all we did today. It did not interest me to much since I have Uverse and Know most of the ins and outs. The training center had a iMac to show installers what they look like but my instructor said most installers must ignore mac. He said they had two macs but for some reason one of them has gone missing. Plus a computer........and.......All the HDML Cables...I think they need to look into that....YEP!!!. So any who the mac had Mac OSX 10.4 and had almost two gigs of updates to download. I wish I was done with training since it sounds like the rest of my training is going to be stuff I already know about Uverse.

Sayonara,
C3

AT&T Training - Day 4 of 49

Well again another day in the can. Tomorrow I will be dropping by blockbuster after class to pick up my last paycheck. Bummer it will only be about $100 about that allow me to buy a lunch all next week during my ride allongs at least and renew Rush 24/7 (I am dying to listen to Rush Limbaugh after class.). Today as you might know was about Customer Service and we finished Electrical Hazards and Asbestos. We had two test and I believe I passed them both. The thing I like about this job so far is the potential for growth is hugh plus in the past the government required AT&T hire only people with training for telecommunications but AT&T went to court and said that first Comcast (The Largest Midwest Cable Provider) and Time Warner (South Cable Provider) is allowed to hire people without training and the government was allowing them in get into the phone business taking away customers from AT&T. So according to my instructor don't surprise if in 5 years AT&T takes a lot of us good Uverse installers and promotes us to installing Uverse for Businesses and High Rises or even better. Uverse lets people like me without training to get our foot in the door and clime the ladder as high as most of there usual employees like INR (Install & Repair). We are currently on a separate contract but in the future we might be moved to the AT&T CORE contract which would double our pay since Uverse is becoming the backbone of their service.

Sayonara,
C3

Chicago Teaparty

Today I got this (Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Fwd:, You know what I mean.) email from my grandmother about the Chicago Teaparty. Look at how many people gathered in Obamas home state, a democrat state. The state run media will not report this because it reflects negative things about Obama. Insist on limiting all politicians to two terms. Copy & Paste this post into a Text Document, add your comments, print and then send it of to your congressman, White House or whoever. We would like to see more people join in this July 4th in Chicago for even larger protest.

AT&T Training - Day 3 of 49

So another day another $100's. I have made about $400 since Friday so my paycheck next week will be nice quick nice when it gets to about $600 before taxes. Today was my driving test and my instructor was quite laid back. You could tell he was tired from the last two days. He said he is used to getting in for 8am class but they changed it to 6am on him. The driving test was easy since the only requirement was drive about 3 miles and don't die or kill someone and you basically past. Me and one other guy went first out of 6 people and when we got back we joked with the next two and said how hard the test was and how the instructor was yelling at us and they believed us. We were laughing like crazy. We also practiced making coax and cat5 cables for almost an hour that is why a say it was laid back. I already known how to make both (actually all my cat5 don't like to work.) but the cat5 refresher was good because he gave some pointers that helped me a lot. So now I can make a perfect cable. So tomorrow is just around the corner.

AT&T Training - Day 2 of 49

So today was day two of my 7 weeks of training. I am sort of depressed/tired (or what ever you would call it) because even though class was fine driving home was honorable. I decided to take 355 home this time and as soon as I entered 55 south a traffic jam for 6 miles. I wish they could put electric signs at the entrance to expressway to let you know if there is a traffic jam. I hoping to hear the traffic on the radio before I entered the highway but it was to later they finally said it as soon as I was on 55. ("A BIT LATE!") It turned out some guy flipped his semi over on 55 as I drove by it was a massacre. The semi was in 4 many be even 6 pieces. Plus it started raining as a waiting in traffic. HEAVY.

Then traffic was clear on 355 but when I got to 80 it was backed up too because of the semi scale. After the scale the highway was clear. So I just got home and I am ready to take a quick nap.

Today I got my schedule for the remainder of class this week. (And for the heck of it here is today and yesterday.)
Monday - Tool Safety
Tuesday - Ladders (Hard Test for just Ladders)
Wednesday - Driving
Thursday - Customer Service
Friday - CPR (I'm going to become CPR certified)

Then coming Monday is my first ride along (That sounds fun.)

As I mentioned before the union contract expires on June 27th, So I also found out today that every time in the past the employees have ended up going on strike. And it lasted as long as 3 and half weeks. But if you got to work you got to work. My instructor said that if you past the picket line the union will charge you a 1000 dollar fine you got to be kidding me. So there is no point to working he said. He also said this will be most boring week by far because it is the only one with so much lecturing and testing. Bummer he will not be here for week 3 and 4 of training.

I heard a rummer that 3 weeks after the 7 weeks training when we get our trucks and tools we will be partnered with someone. So basically two installers will visit one install with two trucks.

Sayonara til tomorrow.

AT&T Training - Day 1 of 49

I tell you waking up at 4:30am sure makes you tired later. I almost to tired to type this post but I can't sleep or else I might not be able to sleep tonight. So anyways I got up and ate, got dressed and then drove there. I missed my exit for the Stevenson expressway as stupid as it is the next exit is ogden and so I ended up heading down ogden then backtracking south because I overshot 61st Street buy almost 20 streets.
Then got out of class and realized I left my headlights on and drained my battery. I wish my car would ding when the car is off and the headlights are on. I can not believe how many people rely on roadside assistance. I asked 50 people and no one had jumper cables. finally on of the instructors know where a old pair were in workshop. Then I drove home and my car was acting funny and got stuck behind a guy waiting till the last second to accelerate to highway speeds and left my car stuttering because I need to slowly speed up this made my car act funny for miles after. I'm doing it again tomarrow. I calculated 35 miles one way so that would mean I will burn a tank of gas every 3 days. I guess I will have to barrow money from dad again still 10 days till paycheck.

Update 4

So now I am officially an employee of AT&T. The orientation was from 8am to 4pm. Now I got 7 weeks of training. I got to attend class 6am to 2pm and then ride along between 7:30 - 4?ish. I wish the class room training was set at the same time. So here is my training schedule.
Week 1: 6/15 - 6/19: Class Room
Week 2: 6/22 - 6/26: Ride Along
Week 3: 6/28 - 7/02: Class Room
Week 4: 7/06 - 7/09: Class Room
Week 5: 7/13 - 7/16: Ride Along
Week 6: 7/20 - 7/23: Class Room
Week 7: 7/27 - 7/ 30: Ride Along
Because of the 4th of July the training is pushed back one day and we get Friday thru Sunday and I will be going to Tennessee for the 4th in my own car. After the 7 weeks I will be officially done with training and will have my own (company-issued) AT&T truck, laptop and tools. Sweet. We don't get GPS devices so I think I will buy one my self in a few weeks to make things easier. The contract with the union is up in 14 days (June 27th) and AT&T still have not come to an agreement on a new contract and the employee are seriously going to picket if it is not renewed. The AT&T Teachers gave us 30-minutes to read the Code of Conduct and had us sign it. Then they had the Union come in between 11:30 - 1:00 and they feed us pizza. (LOTS OF PIZZA) I even took home a whole pizza. One of the high lights of the orientation was the Union came in and basicly said that AT&T will try to screw us over but I don't think its that serious. The guy said "They will ask you to sign a Code of Conduct soon and make sure you note by your signature that you were instructed to sign without reading." and when we told him we already signed it he freaked out and said "If you do anything they don't like they will hold that signature against you." maybe they did try to rush us to sign it before the union stepped in but I don't blame them after the AT&T people came back half the class was in a riot thinking they had been had. One guy asked "Were we tricked into signing something?" I can not believe people anger. I read the Code of Conduct and it was typical stuff like smoking, drivers license and benefit rules. If you are doing everything right you have nothing to worry about.
I will get my first pay check June 26 for one week and one day. That is a nice paycheck since I made about $100 dollars alone yesterday. The guy was not sure but he thinks we get 50% off our Uverse service. AWESOME!!! There was 19 people in the orientation but only me and two others were going to the bedford garage. I see some of the other people in westmont in one of the three classes. Two in the morning 6am to 2pm then one at 3:30pm to 11pm. We get 6 company shirts every year and we get a jacket in 6 months. There is so much I could say but there is so much.Well down to the last thing first we all got to the training center at 7:45am and enter a buildings waiting room on the AT&T grounds (The building had the address on it they gave us.) We waited and waited then at 8:00 we were wondering why the door was unlocked and no security on duty at the front door. I called the lady in corporate and she said the teacher was looking for us. At 8:05 a lady with a AT&T shirt on came walking in and ask if we were there for the orientation. She said for the last year they have been doing the orientation in the main building. (Still wonder why the door was unlocked and no employees were in the building.) She walked us almost a half mile to the main building. Weird!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOO...

Pray that my car will continue to run for the next few weeks as I drive almost 40 minutes every day and it will cost me almost 10 dollars in tolls a week to drive there.

THIS IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF MY LIFE!!!

Quick Update 3.1

Well, I have decided to hold out as long as I can with getting a new car. I got an email from Sylvia instead of a call and it said I had some new hire forms to fill out online. I thought that was something I was going to be doing on Friday but I guess not. I got to be in Hoffman Estate on Friday at 7:45am sharp. It is a 1:10 drive away up on the north side near by Mitsuwa (Japanese Grocery Store) in Arlington Heights. Then After that I start training in Westmont a 45 minute drive start Monday at 8am.

Quick Update 3

I will be hearing from Sylvia from AT&T next week with details on my Friday (June 12th) orientation. My dad and I will be going car and boot shopping this weekend. I just put in my letter resignation on tuesday and..........oh, I originally said someone asked me to work monday though wednesday help close a store but she called me monday morning and said she made a mistake and no longer needs me. So I ended up working wednesday night only no Friday either. I was a bit nervous about training but someone at my church on Sunday give me some good advice and said her experience with company training is they want you to pass so they trying to make it as easy as possible. That made me feel better about it.

Hey, I said it was a quick update.

Update 2.5

So this will be the last post of May 2009. Some interesting things have happened the last couple weeks but the most interesting was Friday around 1pm, Sylvia from AT&T left me a voice mail letting me know........................ I GOT THE JOB. Exciting.

By the time I got the message it was to late call her but monday I will call and hope to get more details. I am scheduled the start June 12th but she did mention there is an opening for June 5th if I wanted it but I think it is a bit late to do that. If I had known a week or two ago I might of done it. First off I still need to let my work know and buy some boot that my dad will need to lend me the money for. ($150 is a lot of money for me now.) I am a bit nervous because I'm getting mixed input on what the 7 weeks of training will actually include. I hear all textbooks and tests or very little books and more ride-a-longs or a bit of both. So I ask for more people pray for me to get though my training. I am working Mon, Tues and Weds closing down a blockbuster store in chicago 10-6 and then close Friday in my normal store then I'm DONE!!! But I will offer to work a day or two early in the week after.

So here my summary of what my plans for the next two years. (Subject To Change)
June 12th: Start my job and get a new car soon after.
July 31st: Finishing Training
Around March to April 2010: Have the money and use my two weeks vacation for my dream trip to JAPAN.

Thats It. See how unpredictable my life has been the last few years.

Update 2.4

So I got a phone call on Thursday (5/8) from someone named Sylvia at AT&T Staffing. Just one day after I got the call from the guy who gave me my oral assesment. She was extending the job offer to me with additional details. She commented about William my AT&T contact talking about me and so I guess he came though for me after all. So here are some details.

Pay: $13.08/hr or $523/wk
Benefits: Dental, Medical and Vision
Vacation: One week every 6 Months
Raise Every 6 Months, 10 Paid Holidays and 4 Personal Days.
Union: International Brotherhood of Electrical Wiring Local #21
Uniform: Company branded shirt and long pants or jeans.

She assigned me to a closer garage to my house in Bedford Park, Illinois. I'm scheduled to start June 12th but she will talk to someone today (monday) asking If I can start before then. My first day is in Hoffman Estates all day. Then my 7 weeks of training is in West Mont, Illinois.

She asked me if I accept the conditions and then said I have 24 hours to get my physical. Wow talk about a ring of fire to jump though. That would not be possible if I or someone else had to work to late night and all day the next day.

So I got my physical on Friday (5/8) and according to them I passed it. All I have to wait on my drug-test and background check. I believe I have a 95% chance of getting this job. I left my house at 11am and check-in there around 1:10pm (Had problems finding the place.). This place was in some industrial location off of the Bishop Ford Expressway. WEIRD!!! I waited until 2:40pm (1:30 wait) and was done at 3:30pm. I have to say they had me do everything except a blood test and prostate exam. They had me do my lifting evaluation which included 14 sit ups. The two doctors I saw where white males and the therapy person was a white woman. Not that where would have anything wrong with them if they were black. The therapy lady was very nice except everyone else was not that nice. I think I pulled something because my belly has been hurting since.

Keep praying for me and I believe I will get it soon.

Quick Update 2

Well I just got a phone call from AT&T Staffing the guy did the oral assessment over the phone. He said my answers were satisfactory and said the next step is for them wait on my background check to go though. He said I will be contacted soon to come in for a drug test and 80lb lifting evaluation.

Pay starts at $13.00/hr with a raise every 6 months and tops off at $16.76/hr. Actual pay depends on past experience. The average Installer makes $523/wk (not sure if that's take home.). Training is 7 weeks of workbooks and ride-along and their is intermediate testing in between workbooks to make sure you are retaining the information.

He said I will be selected from a pool of candidates for the position and area I applied for. He said if I'm selected I can expect to be hired the beginning of June. Hope I can hold out until then.

If anyone has any jobs (Networking, Surveillance Cameras, Clean Gutters, Mow Lawn or anything else.) I can make a little money with please let me know.

Quick Update

I got a call on Wednesday (April 29) from William my contact at AT&T that he called his contact in staffing and got her to email me the link to finish my application so they can start my background check but I'm not sure if that means he got me to the next step or skip a step? I guess I will find out more soon. I'm glad I got the call because that means they have not forgotten my application. Keep praying I'm sure it's working.

On a another note. I canceled blockbuster Online and switched to Netflix to try them out mainly because Netflix is only $16.99 compared to $19.95. I loved the in-store exchange blockbuster gave you but once they changed the policy to in-store exchanges counting as rentals it was not worth it anymore. Before I could exchange a movie and watch it as they send my next one but not anymore. Bummer!!!

AT&T Uverse Job

I PASSED!!!

So I just got back from the metra station. I am so happy I pasted the test. I can not believe how many people did not pass the test. I want to thank GOD and everyone who prayed for me. She said someone will contact me for a oral interview (Customer Service Assessment) within the next 2 weeks. Either by Phone or Face-2-Face. So I could start within the next 2-3 weeks. So pray for me again so I get in. If your interested here is my log of what happened.

AM:
5:00: Woke up. (5 more minutes mommy)
5:15: Alarm went off. (WAKEY WAKEY)
5:15-5:45: Get dressed, Eat and put shoes on.
5:55: At calumet metra station.
6:06: Train arrived.
6:08: Train is full. I'm cramped.
6:30: Talking to guy sitting next to me (He works at Banna Republic).
6:45: Arrived at millennium station. (Guy showed me a quicker exit out of station. Exit will come in handy next time.)
7:07: Arrived at AT&T Staffing Center (Doors locked)


7:11: Woman arrived and let me in. First one here.
7:30: 4 other people arrived.
7:45: 3 people dismissed from test because they had technical training.
7:55: They keep promising we will start the test soon but people keep showing up.
8:05: Count 18 people waiting to take test.
8:30: Entering test room.
8:40: Test Started. (50 minute test.)
9:00: 50% Done.
9:20: 99% Done. Confused with 4 questions.
9:25: Figured them out. 100% Done.
9:27: Woman came back and said test was over.
9:30: Older guy is upset, the lady will not let him fix a answer he printed on wrong line. (Guy has Bad Eyes.)
9:35: We sat down back down in waiting room, waiting for test results.
9:45: Lady came out and called several people and dismissed them. (12 people)
9:47: (18 - 12 = 6) Passed. I PASSED!!!
9:50: I am told I will get call for a over the phone and face-2-face oral interview within now to 2 weeks to 30 days (WHAT?).
10:05: Walked into Quiznos to try a torpedo sandwich. (Did not know it had mustard on it. The woman could of asked. Bummer man.)
10:10: NO ONE ANSWERING AT HOME. I NEED TO GET PICKED UP IN HOMEWOOD.
10:20: Walked into metra station next train leaving at 10:30 to Homewood.
10:30: Train Left. Ticket: $4.30 one way.
10:45: Arrived in Homewood.
10:47: Never got anyone to pick me up. Walking home. (It's my fault. Walking good for me.)
11:15: Finally got called from home. Half way home. Never mind picking me up.
11:40: Got home. Tired!!!

I think passing the test gives me 85% chance of getting hired. SWEET!

Round Trip Metra Ticket: $8.60, Food: $6.20, Walking home: Excise, Possibly Finally getting a new job: Priceless.

I can not believe only 6 out of 18 people passed. I must be smart.
I pray I get hired soon. I only have about three weeks of money left.
2 months training in Hoffman Estates after I get hired. $13.08/hour pay. Raise every 6 months.

P.S. Did you notice the test was over 3 minutes to soon? Glad I was done.

Special Announcement

I am so happy. Yesterday I got an e-mail stating I was selected to go in and test for the job I applied for at AT&T Uverse..........YAH!!!. I am scheduled for Thursday, April 16th at 8am (Early). They say I should be prepared to be there for 2 hours. I most likely will be taking the metra electric to the testing facility. I am so excited I don't know if I should be nervous or excited... I'm required take a Technical/Mechanical Test II (Click link for sample test) at the facility. Looking at the test I think it will be easy but they might surprise me with something complex. DON'T KNOW.

I ASK EVERYONE PRAY FOR ME THAT I WILL GET THE JOB. With all the pain I have been though NOW is my time. THANKS YOU GOD FOR ANSWERING MY PRAYERS.

I don't find out that if it dose not work out there is a job fair next week (April 21st).

The position was for Danville, Illinois but hopefully after training I can transfer to a garage closer to me. If not I will need to get a studio apartment in danville, I found one for around $500/month with a swimming pool.

Again I am very excited. I will be quite disapointed if I don't get it. But I guess I will accept it since there might be a better oppertunity. I believe I learned my lesson since the last dream job I had. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...

Update 2.3

So it is time for my promised April 09 Update. Well as I said in my last post referring to the hotel we stayed at we never got a hold of the owner ever again and probably never will. Bummer. (Oh well I guess I can do without)

So, I finally got a application into AT&T the guy I know said he would contact someone in Human Resources to try to get me in. Oh, That reminds me my family finally got AT&T Uverse installed. We love it so far much better HD then Comcast. You would not believe how may people are switching to AT&T Uverse in our area. We have seen several AT&T Installer trucks in our area. My dad went and returned our Comcast box to Comcast and he said when he got there and everyone there was returning their box. (The people in front and behind him.) TAKE THAT COMCAST. Comcast is finally getting a kick in their monopaly of Pay TV service to chicago. We have 4 TV's and got 4 HD boxes for them all even though only two are LCD 720p TV's. The HD is really wonderful nice picture even though our HD TV's are only 720p. CRAZY NICE PICTURE. AND AND FREE ANIME ON DEMAND... COOOOLLL. I watched an Anime called "Azumanga Daioh". Awesome. It is now one of my favorite Anime. (GETTING BACK ON TOPIC) AT&T requires you to use a 2Wire Gateway. Bummer I use a Netscreen Router. So my VPN dose not work. This 2Wire uses a new peotocol VDSL (G.993.1) to connect to the internet and the old ADSL Modem I used dose not work. BUMMER. I today received a Linksys PAP2T by UPS so now I can talk to people in Japan for much cheaper then using any American Phone Line. SWEET.

So anyways the Guy I know ended up visiting our house to check up on why his installer was taking 9 hours to install our service. (He was working on it from 8:40am to 5:40pm to install.) And he saw me and said "Joel, Right?" I almost forgot what he looked like. He told me that the only position available was in Danville. 2 1/2 hours away not fun but I can get a apartment for about $500 a month in Danville. Hey, I am so desperate I will take anything.
Also I started my own social website called mymiuchi. Invite every one please join and experience me new site. http://mymiuchi.com

Not a big deal but I found out someone who is a cousin to me though my gramma lives in Japan. COOL. I will contact him sometime.

Updates 2.2

It is time once again for my life updates. Well, My family just returned from the creation museum several hours ago. This was my second time going and the rest of my family's third time. I highly suggest everyone who reads this blog to please visit the creation museum in Cincinnati, Ohio. My parents are arranging a church trip sometime soon.

[WILL ADD PHOTO HERE LATER]

Here is some information copied from their website.

The state-of-the-art 70,000 square foot museum brings the pages of the Bible to life, casting its characters and animals in dynamic form and placing them in familiar settings. Adam and Eve live in the Garden of Eden. Children play and dinosaurs roam near Eden’s Rivers. The serpent coils cunningly in the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Majestic murals, great masterpieces brimming with pulsating colors and details, provide a backdrop for many of the settings.

The area within the museum has been divided into unusually configured spaces that allow for personal interaction with each of the 160 exhibits. Several parts of the museum, including the stunning forty-foot high portico with its cliff wall and floor-to-ceiling glass windows, flaunt open spaces and remarkable designs.

Walk through the Garden of Eden. The Tree of Life, central to the garden, stretches out its branches, laden with ripened fruits. Come face-to-face with a sauropod, a dinosaur of incredible dimensions. His monstrous frame moves through the low-lying thicket as he grazes on plants. Introduce yourself to our chameleons. Examine bones, a clutch of eggs from a dinosaur, an exceptional fossil collection, and a mineral collection. Walk through the Cave of Sorrows and see the horrific effects of the Fall of man. Sounds of a sin-ravaged world echo through the room. Finally, see the sacrificial Lamb on the cross, and the hope of redemption.

The themes of the exhibits resound in the theater presentations: Men in White, Six Days of Creation, The Last Adam, and Dinosaurs and Dragons. Our Special Effects Theater, complete with rumbling seats and rising mists, takes visitors on a fantastic quest to find the real purpose and meaning of life.

Each seat is a rocket launching pad in our Stargazers Planetarium. Prepare for lift-off. The digital projector showcases a spectacular gravity-defying spaceflight, a thrilling 22-minute ride billions of light years away to the vast outer regions of our universe. Breathtaking images and inconceivable distances make this cosmic journey under the dome a fully engaging experience.

See the scaffolding, smell the freshly-cut timbers in the busy work site of Noah’s Ark. Delve into the belly of the Ark and imagine the stalls full of animals, in close quarters. Listen to the sounds of thunderous, driving rains and the pounding of water against the sides of the great Ark.

You will find our dinosaurs living in our gardens and sauntering throughout our exhibit halls. These eye-blinking, mouth-chewing, tail-swinging creatures may startle a few of our guests. Children will be excited to see the variety of sculpted dinosaurs in our collection, including the stegosaur, dilophosaur, and of course, the giant Tyrannosaurus rex! They can saddle up on our triceratops and have their picture taken with a dinosaur.

I ended up talking to the owner of the hotel we stayed in. His hotel is in great need of a new network for customer to use. He even admitted to losing customers to the old system. He was very hooked on getting bids for a new system. We gave him a bid of $1,800.00 for 6 access points and all new equipment. We met his father and I think he was urging him to just take our bid without other bids. Would be nice to get the job.

In other places in my life I'm getting to the end of my chain. I have worked on and off at blockbuster and I'm almost out of money..... I can not wait until I can get a new job. I know, I will post my resume on this blog and please all employers read it and please help me. I want have a job in the information technology. VIEW HERE Well, I think that is all for now. Hope report much better things my next post.

COMING APRIL 2009 "UPDATES 2.3".

Updates 2.1

So what can be said? Not much has happened since my last post. I'm feeling lucky though. In one week I have filed out 4 applications and sent emails to 10 craigslist posting for IT personnel. So hopefully it get a response. I NEED A NEW JOB, ASAP OR I WILL GO CRAZY.

On a lighter note. I tried drawing a anime drawing and I was much more talented then I thought. I have always been very creative but I always thought I was more the computer creative type. Not a surprise though my mom is an artist. Shes also very creative.
This is not the only drawling I made. Its not bad, It could be much better though. Ho Yeah! I can't forget. "Copyright Joel Greene 2009. All Rights Reserved." LOL!!!!

I worked on Tuesday night doing inventory at my blockbuster store. I worked 7pm to 7:20am...... Yeah...... You heard me right. 12 hours and 20 minutes. And at 4 in the morning to 7 we went from 500 movies missing to 160... CRAZY!!! We had 6 people work. I was the last to leave excluding the manager. We each scanned about 1,400 to 1,700 items and about 25 items a minute. EXCLUDING THE MANAGER AND LADY FROM INVENTORY!!!

I also got told the other day that this girl360 project is getting put off for sometime. My dad did an opening order for a Dunkin Donuts today and ask the guy if he was getting surveillance cameras. He said he found someone to do it but he said he is opening some other stores and he said we can have the jobs. He also knows a bunch of other people in need of surveillance cameras. It sound like he is not happy with this current surveillance guy.
Sounds like fun. WO HO awesome...

My family will be taking a trip to the Creation Museam soon maybe in the next couple weeks. And we might be taking a vacation to Tennessee over July 4th... WO HO Awsome!!!

Website Designing

Well, Still have not worked any time in Olympia Fields for the past 3 weeks. I am figuring that I basically got laid off. I received a paycheck last week expecting it for 5 hours and found it to be for 21 hours. I guess I'm not complaining the hours was for something. So I had a meeting with a guy named Jerimiah Cobb yesterday he said he is designing a website for a client called http://girl360.net due to be launched Spring 2009. He asked me to help develop the site using my PHP know how. The site is a soical networking site for tween girls between the ages of 9 and 12. The site will contain features like a Memo Pad, Clubby Hole, Parental Companion Login, Girl of the Month, Posters of Quotes and GirlGab (Like a forum) and Content Rating System (Like digg.com). He is giving the client a extremely cheap price. It will not pay much but is worth being on my portfolio. One of the Members of their advisory board is the Senior VP of Yahoo. We are hammering a CMS named Sawa CMS to develop the backend.

Yesterday was also the day of FREE GRAND SLAM at Denny's. I took my Brother and Sister and got there at 9:00am. I had to get on the metra train to Chicago at 10:13am but forgot there might be a long line and there was. Some people said in areas where the weather is warmer the line was wrapped around the building 2 times. We were in line for 30 minutes. We got there with the line at the door we left and the line had build to the corner of the building. All I had to pay for was the drinks. I think the bill was for $8.??. It was good.

I would have made the train if it was not for the van not starting when I got out. We were at the Denny's in mokena and my dad came and started it and I made it to the mokena metra station and the train left at 10:43am and got there 12:13am. My mom came to mokena with my sister and picked up the van and siblings. I never realized how much slower the others trains went to the one by us. The one by us is an electric train, faster. It took hour and a half but the electric took 47 minutes. WOW. I talked with Jerimiah soon long I came back on the 3:45pm train. got back at 4:32pm.

Also the other day I finally started using facebook. The site is really quite amazing including I just found out the my grandmother is on there she just registered. I am weirded out I never though she would register for a site like that.

When the weather gets better I want to go to Osaka Garden in Jackson Park with my dad. I hope there is a lot of Japanese Events this year. I had a weired dream last night. I'm going to tell the whole thing, now get comfortable. You can skip to the end if you want but anyways. It started with me in a Traditional Japanese House with all the furnishings and I turned a corner and there was a whole Japanese Family sitting in a Traditional Way eating dinner. (Something you dip.) It was like I already known the family all my life and they know me. We all were wearing Kimonos including me. The parents had two daughter and one had known English so well she was teaching me Japanese during the dream. I seemed to like this girl a lot but in reality had no idea who she was...... But then everything went wrong as all of sudden my younger sister and brother come and start running in circles spilling our dinner and destroying the house then just as they came they disappeared. Anything was ruin and the girl and I went to the neighbor to get something.... Not sure what it was. The dream ended with everyone disappearing and I was alone was strange sounds coming out of no where. I still got goose bumps.