just a little note

[derien]

I can't take the time to actually do a complete update of my-life-this-week at the moment, but wanted to post that I got a job offer. It's not something I'm really really excited about - I'm going to be a security screener at the airport. Probably will be very dull very quickly. But it will pay okay and has government benefits.:) Tomorrow morning I have to be in Augusta by 7am for orientation, so I have to get up in around 5 hours from now and I'm going to be a complete zombie. This is gonna suck.

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congratulations!

[webbob.livejournal.com]

I had been meaning to get back to your earlier comment and say that I thought you would make a very good security screener. We only really had that one face to face talk, but I quickly formed an impression of you as intelligent, observant, and objective.

If you put your mind to this as something to be good at, you probably will not find it boring. Don't be afraid to make it a career and a profession, if that seems like a good idea. I would be very happy to put the part of my safety that depends on security screening, or any other part you put your mind to, to you and people like you.

Re: congratulations!

[derien.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for that.:) My friend, Caw, was positive on me being good for the job, saying I'm 'sensible'. Feels good that people who know me think that.:) Boredome IS an actual worry to me - it's something I have to fight in any job that doesn't drive me completely nuts by changing all the time. I haven't found a happy medium, yet.:)

--Doe

Re: congratulations!

[webbob.livejournal.com]

Maybe Caw would like her own LJ? You could invite her, and I think this is a better place to meet people than real life, for us with various outlandish ideas and attitudes. She doesn't have to write to get use out of it, could just look around for interesting people and write comments, get on some Friends lists, and so on.

And while I'm in such a Pedantic mood 8:]

I think that the study of people can security can be interesting in a fractal kind of way. There's always more to learn, and always lots of material for study. Learn to write good reports, do any rounds you have to do in a timely manner and actually report odd circumstances and your reaction to them. In my experience as a security guard in Toronto (twenty-five years ago, a fairly profesional organization run by ex-RCMP), observing and reporting are the main keys to quick promotion.

Well, after showing up on time and being willing to work overtime when your relief doesn't show up. The latter is easier if you take the job, and your responsibilities, seriously. The main hazard to enthusiasm in such a job is co-workers who don't take it seriously, who stick you working overtime. I hate to say it, but it's probably important to write up infractions by cow-orkers.

Documentation, documentation, documentation. And it's more important to be there than to be awake. Sometimes it's hard: that's why they pay money to have you do it.