I have thought of my next job...

Getting ready for work today I was slowly overwhelmed by a sense of malaise about the whole thing and after watching the same weather report four times (who was I kidding--I was really watching The Golden Girls and it was the one where Stan and Dorothy inherited an apartment building and hijinks ensued)...I realized I was going to be late. I actually had a lot to do this morning --today I was going to go over my group's project load and starting the plan for what will happen to our stuff after the people that do it are gone. Seeing all of my team's projects laid out alphabetically on a spreadsheet and color-coded made me sad. The final result of the transition is to have my team put everything from the last few years filed into one three drawer filing cabinet so that in the future if anyone needs the info they'll be able to go find it. They can go kick rocks

So really though, everyone has been asking me if I'm looking already for another job. I did think of the job I want. There are at least several openings a week. No benefits but a GREAT hiring bonus and it's really about what you do with the opportunity. It's totally the best position for a self-starter, energetic, team player (well not so much) -- I want to be lottery winner. How awesome would that be!

I should approach this scientifically, like a job search. When I Google “How to win the lottery”, I get 747,000 results. If there are that many, it must be legit! However if you Google “How to get a good job” you get 15,500,000 results—two to one but I’ll be SOME of those have “lottery winner” in them somewhere. Plus according to Wikipedia there are over 79 state lotteries each week. That means there are AT LEAST 79 new winners a week. That is more than new marketing managers hired last week in Seattle…the chances sound OK. Not great but you can’t win if you don’t play.

There are always the naysayers and I already hear them…To address the boo crowd out there, here are the bad facts about the lottery and my chances of winning.

CBSNews.com Excerpt

The outcome of the purchase of a Lotto ticket is based on objective probabilities, but people still play. What are the odds?

• If one person purchases 50 Lotto tickets each week, they will win the jackpot about once every 5,000 years.
• If a car gets 25 miles per gallon, and a gallon of gas is bought for every Lotto ticket bought, there will be enough gas for about 750 round trips to the moon before the jackpot is won.
• It is three times more likely for a person driving ten miles to buy a Lotto ticket to be killed in a car accident than to win the jackpot.
  You have better chance for the following events to happen long before you ever win the lottery:
  
• Dealt a royal flush on the opening hand in a poker game (1 in 649,739).
• Killed by terrorists while traveling abroad (1 in 650,000).
• Die from flesh-eating bacteria (1 in 1 million).
  

OK but if it’s all the same to CBSNews.com, I’d rather win the Lotto. And since I don’t play poker, and won’t be traveling abroad because I don’t have a job neither of those things matter anyway. The flesh-eating bacteria thing…I’m just gonna ignore that one.

And before you say it’s a waste of money, blah blah blah. It’s a dollar AND I don’t drink coffee, or smoke, so I can invest a dollar in my new chosen career. I'll need to keep receipts though because I heard that expenses related to your job search are tax deductible.