{"id":473,"date":"2009-10-09T22:27:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2009-10-09T22:27:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:27:42","slug":"a-fly-in-the-ointment-of-exsitence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/10\/09\/a-fly-in-the-ointment-of-exsitence\/","title":{"rendered":"a fly in the ointment of existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Am I mearly a fly in the ointment of existence? I have had a couple of recent knock backs that have rocked me a bit.That plus a dose of flu and and a new level of insight have left me wondering what the best course of action is? I have been looking at jobs outside the music arena and I have applied for around 30 in about 2 weeks. So far out of 30 the score is 1 interview, I canceled interview and 2 no thank you very much. I understand that at present it takes about 200 applications to get a job, so I guess I need to pull my finger out a bit really. I like to cling to the possibly misguided notion that I do have some saleable skills but of course these may simply be delusional episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I mearly a fly in the ointment of existence? I have had a couple of recent knock backs that have rocked me a bit.That plus a dose of flu and and a new level of insight have left me wondering what the best course of action is? I have been looking at jobs outside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/10\/09\/a-fly-in-the-ointment-of-exsitence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">a fly in the ointment of existence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-7D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178732,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/03\/10\/world-of-confusion\/","url_meta":{"origin":473,"position":0},"title":"World of confusion","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 10, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"So what's occurring then? Search me gov I haven't got a clue? I had a good gig with Sonic Boomers and that really lifted my spirits. 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