Enjoying my vortex vacation

I start work on Monday. That means this week was truly a vacation. While I didn't have a job, and had that hanging over my head I was not truly on vacation even if I didn't have to go to work every day. While I was not depressed as many are when they are unemployed for long stretches of time, every day wasn't just an easy walk in the park (although I did occasionally go for a walk to the beach). And if you've read any of my recent posts you know that the last few months I approached negative emotions that were more typical of a person who had been out of work for a long period of time. Today was nice. I woke at 10 to 5 AM, and rode down to Sunset Cove. I meditated in my car and before the sun was up entered the water. I surfed with 4 of my friends. We had a blast. We each caught a bunch of waves. Congratulated each other, enjoyed the sun coming up, and the camaraderie. After coming home I went to the Santa Monica farmers , something I won't be able to do once I start work. Picked up the photos I've sold from the framing shop, which was very satisfying. Went for a nice mid day bike ride, another luxury I will not be able to do once I start work. And then a nice meditation with my girlfriend whose client had canceled. Topped off the day with a meeting of my local Abraham-Hicks discussin group. All in all a very satisfying Staycation day. Wonder what tomorrow will bring.
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My LOA journey to a job

From Aug 2009 to January 2010 I worked as a web consultant on contract. I got paid the highest rate I'd ever been paid and did the least amount of work to earn that money I ever had. I left having about 4 months money in the bank. iwas renting a car as I had cracked mine up and hadn't figured out what to buy yet. Somebody I was working for lined me up more work, but I told them I wanted to take a few months off to surf. A month in a half I bought a new car which cost me more down then I planned and ate into my few months of money. I realized I needed to find work sooner, but when I went back to the gig I had lined up at end of last contract, they told me they had no work for me. I knew I had to stay in the vortex, to get what I want so I didn't try very hard to find a job, and spent my days doing my best to get in the vortex. After another month the money ran out. I spoke to my parents who had retired well off due to pensions and some inheritance that coincided with the end of their careers. They had bought into the bad economy and were happy to help since they had it. That was Aril 2010. Its been over a year now. While my parents said they wouldn't pull the plug the messages to get a job , any job were increasing. But I ignored them to most extents sticking to my belief that the vortex would work everything out. In May I met Jen, my now girlfriend (she is finishing up her move into my place this weekend ). I wrote out that whole vortex manifested Journey in a thread entitled "Love at First Email". The vortex brought me the girl certainly it could bring me more money and or a job. On June 29th I awoke with my girlfriend at 5 Am. I get up frequently at this time to surf, but its rare she is up this early, but she had a very early appointment. She allowed waking early to be her excuse for being out of the vortex. At some point I told her that the guys I had done some freelance for had just thrown me a few more hours. More effortless $$, not a lot but I didn't have to do much to find it, or to earn it. She in a not so great tone, with some attitude, said find more stuff like that and you won't ever have to look for a job. I allowed that to be my excuse to be out of the vortex, as we had had some discussions where she made it clear that the version of Law of Attraction she believed in had a lot more up front (what I'd call uninspired ) action involved. She had been judging my lack of effort towards finding a job, and my insistence that I hang, relax, and find the vortex, and the vortex would lead me to a job even though I told her thats how I manifested drawing her in. I was getting less good at allowing her not allowing of me, as we spent more time together. SO after she left I went on Craigslist to see if I could easily find freelance work. But what I saw I allowed to get me even further from the vortex. The pay rates for any work I'd be good at and enjoy doing were far below my normal hourly rate. Now in a worse mood, I met a friend to surf. He is a doctor and fully employed. He had learned to meditate 6 months after I did and was slowly getting into the Abe stuff. However despite getting more into Abe recently. He added to the messages that maybe I was copping out by how little effort I put in, and using getting in the vortex as an excuse to not try harder. By now I was ready to blow. But instead of calming down, and finding my way back to the vortex I started a 2 month long action journey to get off my ass and get a job. I spent the rest of the day and long into the night applying to anything remotely in my skill set, close to my pay range, and even extended my commute zone. And the next day I got calls for multiple interviews. I told myself that maybe it took the contrast of the day before to bump up my desire and by getting in alignment with getting a job through the contrast I was headed in the right direction. The first company I got into the full interview process for was in Hollywood. A 45 minute to hour commute through what we call in LA surface streets (traffic lights, stop signs, no freeway/highway driving at all). Once I interviewed I also found out they dressed business casual (On the much nicer side for software/web developers) , were in the office from 8 AM, to 9 or 10PM daily and worked weekends, no health care, they wanted to pay towards the lower end of my pay scale, and they wanted to formally test my programming skills. Instead of seeing this as non match contrast that was showing me what I didn't want, I let it get me out of the vortex, while still trying to jump through all their hoops to get the job. The formal testing was the worst, for two days before I tried to study, 2 different computer languages and a host of software engineering topics to prepare for the interview, and then when I went in for the technical interview I panicked drenched in sweat as someone sat next to me while I programmed judging and commenting on what I did. Instead of being relieved when I didn't get the job, I beat myself up that I didn't do a good job jumping through their hoops, or passing their programming test. I had set a deadline of finding a job at the end of the month. This pattern repeated itself multiple times a week through the rest of July and all of August, doing well in phone screens, and first interviews, then trying to study for a test, and panicking and bombing the tech test interview. There was only one interview process that went well during July, the tech test was just problem solving, not programming details, and I liked all the people. I was on their shortlist. However I didn't get this gig either, I was told they loved me, thought I could do the job in my sleep, but opted for a recent graduate with a Masters Degree who was a lot cheaper then me. Otherwise July and August were filled with interview processes that died with the tech test. Finally after feeling not so great about an interview with a job opportunity that SEEMED right up my alley, I had a breakdown. I beat up on myself, I cried, I was angry. I had been miserable for 2 months, and I was done. I told Jen, this isn't working, what brought you to me was just relaxing, getting in the vortex, surfing everyday. I said I'm going to reduce my job search to scanning the job alert emails I get from Dice.com and Monster (job boards) , and if I have an interview I'm certainly not studying anymore. I trust if I get back in the vortex I'll be inspired to email my resume to the right job, and a tech test will just test me on stuff I am already good at. That was 2 and a half weeks ago. I stopped making finding a job my priority and started making relaxing and getting in the vortex my priority. When the job search came up I went general (I keep getting interviews, I've always found work in the past, The vortex always brings me what I want, I do well in the initial stages of these interviews which means people like me, not all companies tested me in uncomfortable ways ,etc...) . When someone asked I just told them I was still interviewing and changed the subject. I enjoyed surfing not just for relief. I went on long bike rides. But even more so I stopped the work of trying to find a job. I stopped searching the net for job postings. I stopped preparing for interviews with studying and tons of research into the company. The first thing that happened is I got two orders for canvas prints of one of my best photos ever, a photo of the Ram Joolah footbridge I took in Rishikesh India in 2007. The next thing that happened was I got 4 seperate new clients for my Law of Attraction life coaching business. And then I got the interview for the job I have now been offered. Not only was the technology, stuff I had a lot of experience, but the subject matter of the company is health and fitness. They were very interested in my experience as a programmer and as a leader and were excited I was a surfer and bicyclist, who had lost a lot of weight and transformed my body over the last few years (their audience/clientele). I didn't study at all for the interview and the tech test was very easy for me. The position was in my salary range, the commute isn't bad, they don't have to be in to work until 10, and are done by 7, they don't work weekends, they dress very casually, they are a MAC shop (no PCs), I have free parking downtown in a complex that makes it convenient go out downtown outside of work hours and on weekends, and their is room for growth and advancement in the company. When things started happening (the photo sales, etc..) my girlfriend noticed. And when I got the job she really got it. All the effort was unaligned and amounted to nothing, but when I made my priority getting in the vortex stuff happened.
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I got a job

I just received a formal letter of offer for a job. I am accepting. It is contingent upon a background check (which I will definitely pass.) I will wait to disclose more details about the job until all the "I"s are dotted and "T"s are crossed but I am having trouble keeping it a secret.
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Labor Day surf

Went to a semi secret surf spot in Malibu. While the spot I normally would surf in big surf was quite crowded there were maybe 15 other surfers in the water and 5 of them were friends of mine who came to surf with me. I caught a few bug ones. Had 2 or 3 nice long rides. problem with a long ride is the paddle back. After surfing for almost 2 hours I was very tired. So of course who wants to hear from their friend who stayed in that the best waves came after you left. But thats what one of my friends said that after I left there were rideable 8-10 foot waves. The biggest I was on was probably 6 feet. Oh well next time. It was still a blast.
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LOA in action

Everyone is human. What do I mean by that? We don't always all practice what we preach. Here I am a Law of Attraction coach, and I spent the months of July and August not practicing what I preach.After a 5 year journey to heal from my late wife's death, and transform my life into one based in consciousness, and equanimity I spent two months as the stressed out ADD person I had been in the past. After manifesting a wonderful new relationship, I decided it was time I did more about getting a new job. Instead of continuing to do what I believe and get in a good place, and follow inspiration when it directed me to meet someone, take a meeting or apply for a job letting the Universe direct me to my next job as it had always done before, I was going to make it happen. I stopped ignoring my parents messages about the economy, and how hard it would be, and their constant asking if I found a gig or had started on plan B, or plan C, and got stressed. I changed my resume to reflect more of an individual contributor rather then a manager and started applying to anything remotely within my sphere of skills. And because I had been in a relatively good place before this action journey to make a job happen started I got results. Since that day at the end of June I have been interviewing non stop. But each non match just made me beat up on myself more, stress more, ignore what I believe more, and try harder.
Basically in a lot of ways July and August sucked, because I spent most of the time beating up on myself that I didn't get a job yet. The interviews continued, one company even took me all the way through their process before showing they too were a non match, telling me they loved me and I could do the job in their sleep but they were going with a recent Masters degree grad who was younger and cheaper. Then about 2 weeks ago I had a break down, which led to a break through. I had abandoned my beliefs , I had abandoned who I was. Even in "real world" terms I couldn't set a deadline on when I'd geta job by since hiring me is not in my control.
I needed to chill out, relax, become the peaceful warrior. I needed to not apply to every job, just those that really spoke to me. I needed to not stress about interviews or try and over prepare knowing the right one would be a match in what they asked of me, and how they tested my skills. It took a few days to really relax, and let it all go.
Of course once I did that evidence started appearing that I was now back on track. The quality of the networking meetings I took increased. I have now been introduced to a new set of people in the LA high tech media world that are continuing to introduce me to new connections, some of which could potentially lead to employment. I sold two copies of a photographs on canvas I took in India in 2007. I have 4 new life coaching clients, 2 of which called me after finding my coaching website. This week I took two wonderful interviews in my chosen field. One I could receive an offer from as early as Tuesday, and the other decided I was a much better fit for a different opening they have, then the one I came in to interview for, but since the CTO decided this at 4:30 PM Friday as we met, most of those I need to meet with for the other position had already left for the holiday weekend so the rest of that will be scheduled Tuesday. Both of these positions are in the pay range I am looking, and have elements which make them very exciting to me.
And even if neither of these work out, I know I am back on track and that something will land in my lap shortly, and in the meantime I've sold art and gotten new coaching clients so all is well.

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Search continues

Continue to get leads, but no offers yet. Spoke to a new recruiter today and had a phone screen with a major gaming company. Also a former employee connected me to a VC manager leaving his VC fund to become CEO of a startup he founded. We'll see what next week brings.

More interviewing

Had a half day interview at a wholly owned subsidiary of a major corporation. Its like a startup within the belly of an established company. Great life-work balance, stability, benefits, but a fully open source shop with an entrepreneurial spirit. I enjoyed the interview quite a bit. It would be an amazing learning environment for me to progress in some new technologies I have yet to work on professionally. It would also allow me to work on a very high trafficked site, something the many startups I worked for never survived long enough to achieve. I have another interview with another established company tomorrow. The search continues.

Somewhere in all this interviewing I will align and one of these will pop.