Just had a conference call with the NGO that I did some pro bono work with in the Middle East, and they want me to join them full-time. The position would be to lead their entrepreneurial economic programs in the West Bank and Gaza as well as a little work in Egypt. I would be living in East Jerusalem and I could work out of my home in the US about a third of the time.
We are going to have a family pow wow later to discuss.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Bad Omen?????????????
I must be quick on the refresh button because for the second year in a row I have an early OA date. I am not certain, but I think I have the first available day this cycle. We have some good friends who live in the DC area so the whole family flew out last year and we made a mini vacation out of it. It was the first time for my kids so we hit a lot of the major sites, and the icing on the the cake was a Goo Goo Dolls concert the night after the OA. They are one of my favorite if not my favorite groups to see in concert.
If you have read any of my dribble you know that I came up just short with a 5.2. With the budget crisis and hiring uncertainty I didn't like my chances to make it back to the OA. So I made it, have my OA date, and the Goo Goo Dolls are back in DC the night after my OA date for the second year in a row. As much as I would LOVE to see them again I am thinking I will just hop on the last plane back to Denver on the 25th. So, sorry Johnny Rzenik, but this year rather than drowning my sorrows with Name, Iris, and Slide I'll just sit in my middle seat in the back of the bus with those little bottles of scotch celebrating(hopefully) with the person who keeps stealing both arm rests.
If you have read any of my dribble you know that I came up just short with a 5.2. With the budget crisis and hiring uncertainty I didn't like my chances to make it back to the OA. So I made it, have my OA date, and the Goo Goo Dolls are back in DC the night after my OA date for the second year in a row. As much as I would LOVE to see them again I am thinking I will just hop on the last plane back to Denver on the 25th. So, sorry Johnny Rzenik, but this year rather than drowning my sorrows with Name, Iris, and Slide I'll just sit in my middle seat in the back of the bus with those little bottles of scotch celebrating(hopefully) with the person who keeps stealing both arm rests.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
OA 7/25
From the chatter on the Yahoo site it looks like I managed to grab the very first test date this time around. I actually wanted to test later in the cycle this time, but since it looks like I will be getting an offer from an NGO I just wanted to get the earliest option available.
I waited until mid-March to send off my FOIA request to get the breakdown of last years OA so I am guessing that I will not see anything before my test date. I am going to probably review CM the most since that was the only section that I did not pass last time. Despite coming up short by just .05 last time I definitely did not crush the SI, or at least I don't think I did.
I thought that I did best on the GE, and learned a few things that I will keep in my back pocket depending on how the group dynamics play out. I found that video taping myself was by far the best way to prepare for the GE, and will probably do that a few times again. The other thing I did was set an alarm for five minutes so that I had a good sense of what five minutes feels like. The day I took the GE only two of us finished our presentations with time for questions. That really hurt the discussion phase since we had to spend the first five minutes going over things that should have happened during the presentation phase.
I definitely want to go through the OA again, but if I do get an offer from this NGO it will be just about impossible to say no,and not sure if I could hold them off for another six weeks.
I waited until mid-March to send off my FOIA request to get the breakdown of last years OA so I am guessing that I will not see anything before my test date. I am going to probably review CM the most since that was the only section that I did not pass last time. Despite coming up short by just .05 last time I definitely did not crush the SI, or at least I don't think I did.
I thought that I did best on the GE, and learned a few things that I will keep in my back pocket depending on how the group dynamics play out. I found that video taping myself was by far the best way to prepare for the GE, and will probably do that a few times again. The other thing I did was set an alarm for five minutes so that I had a good sense of what five minutes feels like. The day I took the GE only two of us finished our presentations with time for questions. That really hurt the discussion phase since we had to spend the first five minutes going over things that should have happened during the presentation phase.
I definitely want to go through the OA again, but if I do get an offer from this NGO it will be just about impossible to say no,and not sure if I could hold them off for another six weeks.
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