Today is not a good day, the ego is feeling the stress of contradictions and expectations. All recruiters i have met disagree on a a lot, but one thing that they unanimously agreed on is that I am a contradiction and thus a conundrum for them, much like the 'riddle of the Sphinx', John Travolta's hair style (wig) and Jedward lack of talent yet success. The contradiction they say is that I am niche yet general, i am confused (In the next Batman movie I play the Riddlers side kick called 'Boy Quizzical'). General, cos' I am a database marketer (please see below one of the many 80's movies i would have had a lead role in), but niche in Australia, because I use email and mobile as my channel and not traditional direct marketing (DM).
Given the amount of times I have heard this from a recruiter and the same rebuttal I have always presented, I think I am going to tape my rebuttal for the next time. The rebuttal sound a little something like this 'I know I have not undertaken any DM projects, but I know database marketing and segmentation, which is the core part of DM and will enable me to pick up DM quickly'. I am getting bored of saying that all the time thus the taping. I may even drop the instrumental to Kenny Rogers 'The Gambler' or Tom Tom Club's 'Genius of Love' as its backing. But what to do, I may have to do some CV massaging to either be a Shark or a Jet.
Expectation are built by ego, well mine are anyway. THE EGO HAS crashed!.... well not yet, but if this blog is still running till December, then it will be a slightly more messy landing to that of Felix Baumgaartner's. I had set expectation, that involved being as fluid as possible within reason to finding a new role quickly, but currently my fluidity is freezing over due to Melbourne's cold weather and dropping expectations. He says this, whilst only being in the country for a week and a bit. I have Andre the Giant size expectations. The slow decline of the bank balance is not helping either, and all i have really done is visit some recruiters, go to see a movie, buy some graphic prints, a couple of dinners ...Oh!... Life is for the living and if I run out of money, I can jump of the moon and land safely to score myself a life time of Red Bull. If I did that I would like to have Tatoo from Fantasy Island welcoming me into the earths atmosphere with 'It's a bird... Its Da Plane ... its Quizzicalman'.
