Hemingway’s

Hemingway’s is a bar in Oakland in Pittsburgh one block away from the Cathedral of Learning of the University of Pittsburgh.  So yes, at any time of day or night you might find a lot of students in the place.  There are several students here now.  I’ve been coming to this bar since I was a young man.  Right now I’m drinking a $1.50 big draft beer.  It’s around 3:30 pm and outside winter has come to the ‘Burgh.  Elton John is on the juke box singing “Levon”, Heather is behind the bar serving beer, college basketball is on ESPN on the flat screen TVs over the bar and I’m putting words down on a note pad with pencil.

I’ll have a couple of beers and forget my troubles for awhile.

GHH

Job Developer

The job developer wasn’t in her office downstairs.  She left the building to attend some sort of job development conference.

So I came back upstairs and got on my computer and searched the website of the local hospital that’s going to be here on Friday.  Because of what I’m learning here at the Braddock Employment And Training Center (MS Office and data entry) the jobs I have a shot at are File Clerk, Administrative Assistant and Data Entry.  (Of course I could go for something like Patient Transportation, Central Supply/Warehouse or Food Service; but if I went for any of them the year I’ve spent here would be wasted and you don’t need an MFA for those positions.  In other words a job recruiter would pass over me because I was over qualified.  So it’s FC, AA or DE.)

Well, there were no positions open that I could get to by public transportation anyway.

Now I’ll do some business math on the calculator on the computer.

GHH

Break Time

The break room is always cold.  I’ve got my hat on.  I write, listen to everyone else talk and eat my corn beef sandwich.  After break I’ll go downstairs and talk to the job developer I’m working with to find out if the local hospital’s HR people coming here to the Braddock Employment And Training Center are coming to look for people to hire or are just coming here to give us a pep talk.  I don’t need to shave and spend money to get my suit and shirts out of the cleaners for a pep talk.

GHH

Same As It Ever Was

The radiators in my apartment banged and knocked all night long.  I have to tell maintenance about it.

One of the local hospitals will be having a job fair at the Braddock Employment And Training Center this Friday.  Will the hospital actually want to hire someone or is this just make-work for the hospital’s Human Resource department?  The last HR department that came to the center was from a local university that was not hiring.  It cost me money, and every student that dresses professionally for these job fairs, every time I get my suit and shirts out of the cleaners for one of these “Dress For Success And Bring A Resume” sessions.

I’ll post this before leaving for the employment and training center.

GHH

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