Turn up the heat!

I decided this morning to turn up the heat on my job search. I spent the last hour or so finding and applying for more IT jobs in Wellington, about 8 or so in total. The thing I did differently this time was I avoided recruiting agencies, and I personalized the cover letter for each position. Maybe this will work, maybe it won't, but at least I can say I'm trying to get something done. I have an interview today that should go well. The recruiter who set me up on it let me know exactly what they're looking for so I can tune my "Zach-Magic" to those areas.





Last night I went for a short walk and was looking up at the stars. I've never looked up at the night sky from the southern hemisphere before, but I wanted to give it a go. Wow! The southern cross is BEAUTIFUL (I think that's what I was seeing). I also looked a bit at the moon and started pondering some things. There's a lot of people in the world and in America who don't venture outside their borders. They're afraid of change, and they're happy not knowing what else is out there. I got to thinking about the stars in this sense, in that in the USA we have a set of stars that we can see that people down here can't, and in the southern hemisphere there's another set of stars that people in the USA can't see. Although the stars themselves are huge, when we look at them in the sky they're very small. And that's what is different in the world - the little things. In that same sense we can see the moon in the USA, and we can see the moon in New Zealand. The moon is huge compared to these stars when looked at from earth. So the big things are the same in the world - we're all human, and the little things are different - our languages, our food, etc. I might have more on this later as I continue to ponder the big picture in life. There was a quote I heard last night on criminal minds that also got me thinking about these things and about life in general. It goes a little something like this... "We all die. The goal ins't to live forever, it's to create something that will." Think about that, and think about the world and how big and small it is at the same time.

Hope all is well,

Zach