FINDING A JOB

Over the past 50 years I have worked for over 180; companies, or individuals. Most of my jobs have been in the driving field but I have done many other things as well, things that I was not qualified for but I took my training on the job.

To my recollection I never got one single job by; delivering, mailing, or faxing a résumé.

I did take one to an interview one time but the boss never got past my cover letter. That like most of my interviews was without an appointment. I just dropped in.

Other than one or two jobs that were found through friends, most of my jobs were acquired by drop in, unannounced. A few of the interviews were arranged over the phone. And one or two of the interviews were done over the phone.

Finding a job is just that simple.

Pick a place you would like to work, and phone them or drop in. If they ask you to leave a resume, ask them if they have an immediate opening. If they are not currently hiring, why leave a resume, you want a job today.

90% of the time when I apply for a job I am asked, `when can you start’?

My answer is always, `Now’!

And that is usually when I start, now, or the next morning.

Arriving at a potential job site, early in the morning, dressed for the type of work you wish to do, and having the attitude of `ready to work’ will usually get you the job, if there is an opening.

Obviously if there is no opening you won’t get hired, in which case you move on to the next business, along the street, or on your list.

One of the things I have always hated is commuting. So I try to find a job near where I live.

Shortly after my fourth wife came to Canada, she wanted to find a job. As she was unable to speak English, she would have found commuting rather difficult, I took her job hunting close to where we lived.

Monday morning, I took her to the first business across the street. I had no idea who they were, or what they did. We simply walked into the reception area and I explained to the girl at the desk that my wife couldn’t speak English, and had no work experience, but she was looking for employment.

We were told that they were not hiring so we went to the next office in the same building, with the same result. From office to office and building to building we spent about 2 hours. We did the same thing the next morning, and working farther afield, the next morning.

Wednesday afternoon, we received a phone call from a place we had called on that morning and my wife started work Thursday morning.

Finding a job is just a matter of knocking on doors, or dialing the phone. `Let your fingers do the walking’.

I was visiting friends in Coquitlam, sleeping on their couch. They wanted me to go to the pub with them one morning and I said, "No, I’m going to get a job". They didn’t believe me but left me behind with the phone and yellow pages.

After less than an hour of phone calls, I went to an interview, and started work that evening.

END

PS: One of the hardest things about finding a job is getting past the receptionist. They have been trained to ask for résumés and usually have no idea if the company is actually hiring.

By phone or in person I try to talk to; a dispatcher, a foreman, or someone who actually knows what the employee situation is and preferably someone who has the power to hire or can lead you directly to that person.

I was once hired by the bookkeeper of a company as the boss was absent. After two weeks of work I was asked to fill out an application form because they didn’t know who to make the cheque out to.

Never be afraid to ask for a job. The worst that can happen is they will say `No’.

COURTESY ON THE STREETS OF NORTH AMERICA

COMMON TO PEDESTRIANS, CYCLISTS, SKATEBOARDERS, CARS, AND TRUCKS:

Do not wear hoodies, or other head gear, which will block your vision to the side.
Do not use celphones, or earphones, which will distract you, or block your hearing.
Keep to the right so others can pass. (Regardless of your speed)
Do not make sudden turns, or stops. Check behind you first.
Don’t try to squeeze into the line up. Join the back of the line or wait until you get to the merge point.
Do not enter an intersection if the light is orange, or red, or if the white man has turned to a red hand.
Do not speed up to try to get into an intersection before the light turns, orange, or red.
Once in an intersection, go through, don’t slow down.
And ABSOLUTELY NO cel phones in an intersection.

CYCLISTS:
Stay as close to the curb as possible.
Do not turn left from the middle of a street, go through the intersection then change direction.
Single file only.
Use your mirrors so you don’t have to turn your head.
Use your bell to warn others when on a path.

PEDESTRIANS:
No spitting where others have to walk.
Keep you garbage, butts, gum, etc. in your pocket until you reach a trash bin.
When you reach an intersection; stop, look, listen, control your children, and pets.

MOTORISTS:
Don’t open your door and empty your ashtray, or coffee cup.
Don’t throw your pee bottles out the window.
Save all your garbage until the next time you stop for fuel and use the trash bin.
Never throw a hot; match, cigar, butt, etc, out, regardless of the weather. Use your ashtray.
Don’t honk your horn. Newer vehicles are too well insulated, the driver that irritated you won’t be able to hear you and you, in turn, are irritating those around you. Remember, the horn is an emergency warning device and is only to be used to warn someone of imminent danger.
Pedestrians on, or entering onto, a crosswalk, have the right of way.
Every intersection has at least three crosswalks, even though they may not be marked.
THE ABOVE are only a few of the more common courtesies. I am sure that with a little common sense you can think of many more.
Also note, that many of the above courtesies are also laws under the motor vehicle act of virtually every; municipality, province, and state.

NOTE: UNDER THE MOTOR VEHICLE ACT:
A crosswalk is part of an intersection, an extension of the sidewalk.
A bicycle is a vehicle.

Excerpt from the Novel – FERO by Lee A. Wood

The wooden door was as weathered, and as old, as the building it was in. It afforded a certain amount of privacy and rejected most of the weather. The door frame was twisted, from the settling of the building. Thus the door allowed for a certain amount of air and temperature exchange because it no longer fit the frame as well as it had originally. Both the door and the building had stood for many years and would probably stand for many more.
The door rattled against its leather hinges, as it was knocked on, from the outside.
Her reddish hair, though once shiny and smooth, was dull and dishevelled. Her face, haggard by a rough, though short, life, looked querulously at the door. When the knocking came a second time, she drew a shawl over her shoulders, covering the naked baby and the naked breast it was feeding at.
In complete difference to the majority of males in the village, the man at the door was short, chubby, and immaculately dressed, "Good Morning to you, Mrs. Monaghan. I see you're up and about."
"Ye've come for the rent Mr. McTavish." It wasn't a question, just a statement of fact, said in an abrupt way.
"That's not a very kindly tone in your voice Mary Ellen Monaghan. You must admit I didn't bother you for the rent two months ago when the babe was born, nor did I trouble you last month when your husband was lost. It is three months rent that you owe."
"Yes. And you'll be wanting interest on that, I suppose."
"Well, I am a business man." He said in explanation. "I do have expenses to pay."
"And I have a boy to feed and no job."
"And how is the boy?" he asked, trying to lighten the mood.
"Devastated, to say the least. The sun rose and fell on his da. He spends all day sittin' on the dock, waitin' for his da to come home. When the fish boats come in at night he asks all the fishermen if they have seen his da."
"He isn't able to accept the fact that the ocean has taken his da away forever. Like it did my brother last year and my da the year before. I suppose soon it will take Trevor."
"Now, now, Mary Ellen. The boy is still in school."
"But for how long? I'm but a woman. How can I put bread on the table? He is terribly young but he is the man in the family now. And where else is there for a man to find work in this village? There is not but fishing for the men, and weeping for the women, when the men don't return. I wish the sea would rise up and swallow the whole damn town. Then it would all be over." Mary Ellen sank down onto an old chair wedged between the doorway and a rickety wooden table.
Mr. McTavish looked furtively over his shoulder. Seeing that he was not observed he stepped inside. Quietly closing the door behind him he went down on one knee in front of Mary Ellen, "Mary, Mary, don't despair. You are young. You will find another husband. I know that is something you are not thinking about with your man only gone a month. But time will heal all things."
"Time, Mr. McTavish. Where will I get time? Look at my face. Look at what time has done to it. I was never beautiful but look at me now. And what will I look like in time. What man would want me even if I didn't have two sons that weren't his. Would you marry me carrying a new born and dragging a youngster behind?"
"Yes, I would, Mary Ellen. Have I not known you since you were your son's age? I have seen you grow from a wisp of a girl in pigtails to a mature woman. Had I not been a married man I would have asked for your hand myself." Mary Ellen was smoothing her faded skirt over her knees, Mr. McTavish took her roughened hand and held it.

Excerpt from Chpt. 2.

A circumstance-shaped character reveal, woven across continents and events - Journalist and Author: Dodie King

Fero - Published By Kindle - Available on Amazon

FREEDOM -IT'S IN OUR CONSTITUTION

According to an E I have received, more than once, Australia’s Prime Minister Gillard angered Australian Muslims by saying she supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques.

Apparently she said “Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law should get out of Australia.

The rest of the E is, supposedly, a quote of a statement she said to the local press.
I have rewritten that statement to fit the constitutions of Canada and the USA.
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IMMIGRANTS MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It.
We are tired of our nations worrying about whether we are offending some individual, or their culture.

Our culture has been developed over centuries of; struggles, trials, and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom'

'We speak mainly ENGLISH, but also Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and every other language.
If you wish to become part of our society it is not nesasary that you learn Ehglish. (But it would make life a lot simpler if you did.)

Most North Americans believe in God, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded these nations.
It is appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools.
If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.'

We will accept your beliefs provided they don’t violate our laws.
All we ask is that you accept our laws, and live in harmony with us.

This is North America, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy it.
But once you are done; complaining, whining, and griping about; Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you to take advantage of another of our great freedoms, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.

If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here.
You asked to be here.
So accept the country YOU accepted.

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On the other hand, we the descendants of the Great White Fathers who drafted the constitutions, have to understand that it is these very constitutions that give immigrants the right to not conform to our customs.

The have the right; to talk to each other in their native tongue, to attend churches of their own believe, to listen to radio and TV, or read periodicals produced in languages we don’t understand.

We must also understand that when they come to this continent they don’t understand what our customs are. No one takes the time to educate them, just berate them for not doing things our way.

If we want them to conform to our customs then when they arrive they should be given a short indoctrination explaining to them, in their native tongue, how we live.

A brief introduction to our traffic laws, such as; we drive on the right side of the road, we stop for pedestrians, we wait at red lights, etc.

And a few common courtesies, such as; we wait in line, we don’t cut in front, we hold doors open for people with their arms full, women and children first, etc.

How does our government waste our money?

They are convening a panel on whether or not to extinguish the HST and return to
the PST and GST.
Why are they wasting our money?
At no time did the people of B.C. ever suggest that we return to GST and PST. It goes without saying that if you lose the HST you lose, both, the GST and the PST.
It doesn’t take a panel, at our expense, to understand this.
But I guess if the Liberals can’t understand a simple concept like that they have failed to understand why we wanted Campbell to step down.
We understand fully that Campbell wasn’t the only one in the Liberal Party that was behind HST, but they, obviously, are using him as a scapegoat so that they don’t have to change their party policy of taxing British Columbians to death.
Which makes it obvious how the other parties can win the election, simply promise to kick out the (total) HST after they are elected, and they are in like Flynn.
Its time that we the people make these parties realize that a democratic government is based on what the people want, not what the political parties want.

HST Disguised

Christy Clark is trying to appease the peasants by offering an early referendum. By doing this her and her liberal party hope to keep the GST by simply changing its name.

We kicked Campbell out of office because we didn’t want GST, no matter what it’s name.
What the Liberal Party fails to realize is that Canada is a democratic country. It is not for political leaders to placate the public it is their duty to obey their employers.

Particularly now with the Yankee dollar shrinking in value and B. C. losing shoppers to the South it is important to kill the HST, totally. That is GST and PST.

That will make shopping cheaper in B. C. and we will not only get British Columbians to spend their bucks at home we will attract customers from Alberta as well as the South.

DON'T VOTE FOR A MAJOR PARTY

If you vote for one of the big parties you will end up with a Prime Minister that you don’t want.

Inevitably people vote for a party they don’t want because they want to vote against the party they don’t like. But that only gives a vote to a different party they don’t like.
Either that or they don’t vote at all which means they still end up with a PM they don’t want.
Either way the big parties don’t get the message - NO BODY WANTS YOU.

They all write off the lack of votes for them as, `it was a poor day at the polls’.

The only way they are going to get the message is if you go to the polls and vote, but not for them.

On every ballot there is an independent or a throw away party, Ie: Elephant, Rhino, Clown, Blue, etc. Vote for one of them. It doesn’t matter which one. That way there will be a good showing at the polls, and the big parties will realize they are not offering what the people want. In the following election they will run; candidates, and party policies, that the people actually want and we will get a real government with a real Prime Minister.

You have the power. Use it.

HOLLYWOOD NORTH AND THE HST

In the middle of 2010 the HST and the film crews hit the streets of B. C.
Coincidence? Purely.
Did the Film Industry come back to B. C. because of the HST?
Highly unlikely, though Gordon Campbell would surely love you to think so, to hide the fact that it was he and his Liberal party that killed the Film Industry three years previously.
Is the Film Industry back?
Not really. In 2005 the Film Industry brought TWO BILLION DOLLARS into the province. More than tourism, more than forestry.
Though the Film Industry was busy over the past year it was nowhere near as busy as it was five years ago.
So, if the HST brought the Film Industry back to B. C. why isn’t it as busy as it was in 2005?
A lot of people say it is because the American dollar is lower than the Canadian dollar.
Let me ask you this?
Does Seattle have a similar climate to that of Vancouver? Yes.
Does Seattle have similar topography to that of Vancouver? Yes.
Does Seattle have HST or PST? No.
Does Seattle have the same dollar value as Vancouver? NO. But it is the same as Hollywood.
Does Seattle have Hollywood North? – NO.
Hollywood North is in Vancouver and Hollywood producers film here despite the stronger dollar and not because of the HST.
As an example, the series `Eureka’ was originally planned to be filmed in Nelson, B. C. but it was deemed to be too far from Vancouver. They liked the town for the back drop but they changed their plans and filmed the pilot in Victoria. However when it came to be filming month after month, year after year, they moved to Vancouver.
Hollywood North is where the film companies want to be because we have branches of the Las Angles rental companies where they can get cameras, film, lights, etc. quickly,
We had trained, and experienced; crews, carpenters, welders, hairstylists, model makers, scuba divers, etc. We had the transportation equipment and the experienced drivers to get them from location to location, quickly, and efficiently.
Notice I said HAD! During the lull in production over the past few years, because of the Liberals meddling in the Film Industry, we lost several major studio facilities and, literally. hundreds of skilled employees.
The HST did not bring the Film Industry back. Only time will rebuild what the Liberals destroyed. Time to build new studios, Time to train new employees. And time for the film producers to learn that we can supply them with what they need, when they need it.

ELECTION PROMISES

We hear a lot of rhetoric from the federal political candidates regarding health care. And what the other parties are not willing to do about it.

One must realize that it is a big smoke screen to cover up their inadequacy to actually make promises that we want to hear.

The truth of the matter is they are not going to do anything about Health Care. Health care doesn’t come under the jurisdiction of the federal government, you an I get our health care plans form the provincial government.

WALK NAKED DAY

DON’T FORGET

MAY 1st!

WALK NAKED DAY

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

It is a sin for a Muslim male to see any woman other than his wife naked and if he does, he must commit suicide.

So, May 1st at 1 p.m. Eastern Time, all women are asked to walk out of their house completely naked to help weed out any neighborhood terrorists.

Circling your block for one hour is recommended for this anti-terrorist effort.

All patriotic men are to position themselves in lawn chairs in front of their houses

to demonstrate their support for the women and to prove that they are not Muslim terrorist sympathizers.

Since Islam also does not approve of alcohol, a cold 6-pack at your side is further proof of your patriotism.

The government appreciates your efforts to root out terrorists and applauds your participation in this anti-terrorist activity.

Vote Liberal

If we vote Liberal in the next election they will give us a raise of $600 on our old age pension.

Wow, I can hardly wait.

Let's see, That's $600 = $50 a month! Gosh a mighty.

With my CPP and `guaranteed supplement’ that’s $1250/ mth.

Now just a minute, `guaranteed supplement’ is only 1$200

So the new 50 will come off my `guaranteed supplement’ and I still only get $1200.

But wait. They said they will raise income tax.

So then I will get less than $1200.

Wow an increase of $600 will result in a decrease.

I can't wait for the election so I can vote for the liberals.

CANADIAN POLITICIANS SUCK

Ignatieff is offering old age pensioners an increase of $600 on their old age pension. However it will reduce the amount of their Supplement. They will still end up with the same max allowable per month.
In B. C. we kicked out the premier because he brought in HST. However the party, though it has changed its leader, has not changed its policy. If the Liberals are reelected we will still be stuck with HST.
Federally if we reelect the present PM we will still be stuck with HST.
Why is it that political leaders never do what the people want? Is this not a democracy?
We are supposed to be a democratic country yet all leaders, of political parties, have not been invited to a debate. Granted the other parties have no possibility of wining an election but they could probably, during a debate, reveal the falsehoods of the two bigger parties.
So who do we vote for?
None of them. Then the party we want least will get in, again. That is what has happened in every election in the past century.
Election after election we go to the polls and vote for the one we dislike the least. None of the parties have the guts to stand up and promise anything. All they are capable of is running down the opposition and telling us what the other parties won’t do.
What we need in this country is a pay scale that will attract people who know something.
Our present pay scale for political offices is set at attracting people who have little knowledge but much greed. If we offered the Prime Minister a sufficient wage we could get someone that knows what they are doing. People who are knowledgeable are too busy making money to waste their time with politics.

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