Mood: Amused.
Music: Shellshock, New Order
Game: World of Warcraft, COD2, Dungeons and Dragons Online (Khyber Server), Oblivion, Tomb Raider:Legend
Book: Odalisque, Neal Stephenson
Weather: 45, Cloudy...what do you expect for 5:30am?
Jobs applied to today: 12 in the last 2 days...and.....
OK...so I revised my resume as mentioned on Monday. Took me about 90 minutes. Basically, I ripped out all of the management stuff. No revenue growth, no opening or closing offices, no P&L stuff, nothing like that.
So, I jumped on Monster, uploaded the new resume, sent it out to 10 places without even the benefit of a cover letter. Sure enough, in 6 hours, I got a phone call wanting to set up a phone interview for Wednesday (today.)
Now, I didn't ask for less money, nor did I change anything about me...or even lie. In fact, everything there is the gospel truth. But sure enough, it took no time at all to get a callback. It definitely makes me wonder sometimes...but I'd like this job, it seems like a good fit, and I won't mention that I applied for a similar position at this same company 3 months ago with the other resume.
Valuable lesson, hm?
Anyway, I have a phone interview this morning...wish me luck.
Enough about that. I have decided to slow down on raiding in World of Warcraft with the guild. The reason? I can't afford to do it any longer.
Last night, I went on an "informal" raid with the crew, AQ20. By the end of the night, I had racked up a 9g repair bill, and had spent 6g on reagents, and another 5g on potions and such. Of course, I walked out of there with no loot to speak of, save for some vendor trash for a grand total of 30s...bringing my cost for the night to about 19g70s.
Since the guild has shifted to what largely amounts to a 7-day a week raid schedule, I no longer have time to do casual raids or farming to earn enough cash to support myself raiding every night. In the last five days, I've spent over 100g in repairs, reagents, and potions.
Now, it's true that the cost is due to 3 major factors:
1) My gear is very rare, very expensive, and so very expensive to fix, even if it just gets lightly damaged. I've calculated that every time I die, it costs me 1g85s. Doesn't matter the reason, or whatever. I die, cha-ching.
2) The increase in number of group buff spells that I can now cast all require a 9s reagent. I can cast 3 different group buff spells...and because of my spec, I am usually one of two or three priests in a raid group that can cast all three of them. Last night, I was the ONLY one who could cast DS and had improved Fortitude...so that meant that every round of buffs (like after a wipe) I ended up using at LEAST 6 candles...or half a gold every time I had to buff.
3) I come prepared. This means that I have protection potions and mana potions. Since I can't make them or farm them myself, I end up paying for them...case in point, I bought raw materials to make 27 Greater Fire Protection potions...needed for any BWL run, plus useful in Onyxia and MC where needed. The materials for 27 potions ran me about 40g. They'll last me about 2 weeks...depending on how the runs go, and so on. Yes, friends give me potions all the time...but I can't keep mooching potions, because it's no better for them to go without than me...plus I hate mooching.
So in a nutshell, I need to make cash, because I am bound to spend it when I raid. Since raiding is NEVER about cash (in a 20 or 40 person run, how likely is it that you walk off with much at all? You're lucky if you get a piece of gear you can actually use, forget about selling.) you need to make cash on your own time. Which is kind of a funny thing to be saying about a game.
Anyway, I think I'm going to get coding after getting a light bite to eat. Want to be awake and chipper for my interview later. Tell you how it went tomorrow.
Posted by Glenn at April 19, 2006 05:27 AM