Career Paths

"If there's one thing we Americans know is to fight for what we want."
-Anne Bancroft
"Haven", 2001 film starring Natasha Richardson

Twenty-five years ago today

March 10, 1986
Monday

I had a talk with Steph Bautista, my boss, about career paths today. We discussed ASR (Account Service Representative). She is hoping to lead me in that direction.
I said, “I guess I can take the test for ASR.”
Now I am debating whether I want to take the ASR test at all. I’d rather transfer to another department altogether. I’m tired of being a Service Representative and/or an Account Executive. The ASR position is just another formal way of being a Representative in Business Marketing. Who dreams up these job titles?

I submitted some more job transfer requests. I chose one for ‘Analyst’ in San Francisco, San Jose or Oakland and ‘Copy Service Artist’ in San Jose. We shall see what happens.

I had a good workout at the gym. I saw Leonard Perillo. We had a nice and friendly talk.
Leonard said, “My employee, Patrick, will be calling you for a good telephone number.”
“No problem, I’ll look into it for him,” I replied.
Leonard’s really very cool. We shall see.

I meant to call the Travel Bureau today to find out how much a round-trip ticket to Palms Springs would be versus a round-trip ticket to Florida. Oh well, I’ll add it to my list.

I received a letter from Paloma (see letter on February 27, 2010 BLOG). She seems to be in good spirits.

I spoke to Amy Platt a lot during my work hours yesterday. She is very sweet. I just don’t know…

I keep thinking about my options: ASR (Account Service Representative), Directory Yellow Pages lateral move or downgrade, Analyst or Copy Service Artist. We shall see. I don’t believe I want the ASR channel after all.

Suzy Miller telephoned last night. She received a job offer in San Francisco as Communications Tech. She is so very indecisive about accepting it. It sounds like my current predicament.

"The longest journey begins with a single step."
-PRECIOUS, 2009 motion-picture