This week, I had planned on calling Charina back to see what she was able to find out from Amanda over at Black Box. I didn't want to call her right away to avoid sounding over-eager, so I decided to wait. Monday, I went out to Sui Sha Ya for all you can eat sushi with Rosemary. After dinner we went to Chapters - she had to return a book, and I had to wait for my bus to take me home, so I checked my schedule.
Sarah had taken me off the schedule. My last day of work at Chapters will be on May 23rd. I'm a little sad, abit nervous about moving on, but I guess we all have to do it sometime. And I'll forever be thankful for the support that the management over at Chapters has given me in my endeavors to start my career.
Oh, I also ran into Shelley who introduced me to her brother. I haven't seen her for a long time. She updated me on some of the people she still keeps in touch with from highschool. Apparently Matt's getting married to Nicole Wright, which is something I'd never have seen coming. I don't know if Shelley was joking, but she didn't look like it. Maybe she was misinformed? Whatever the case, we planned for coffee on Wednesday.
Tuesday I went for lunch with Naubert, Eric and Joseph. We went to Boston Pizza for pasta tuesdays and were supposed to meet at 3:30 but as I had expected, everyone showed up a little late. I organized the meeting just to see how the other character artists were moving on with their job search. Sofar all the environment artists who I associate with have gotten jobs. Character artist wise, nobody has gotten anything so I don't feel so alone in this. Also applied for more jobs at the EA website and notified Gord in hopes that he would get back to me but sofar that hasn't happened.
Wednesday I went to coffee with Shelley. Sat around at Starbucks for about 2 hours and just caught up on old times. She drove me home after, showed her around my house for abit. She hasn't been here since grade 10. It's been almost ten years.
Thusday was the day some magic happened. I phoned Amanda after talking with Charina just the day before, who said it would be a good idea to touch base with her and see what was going on at Black Box for me. I explained to her about the situation with Volt and she recommended to me that I apply with Volt and work the 400 hours they require before EA can hire me. She also said it didn't look likely that Black Box would have an opening for me within the next 400 working hours anyway. But I thought to hold off a little in case Gord could work some magic for me. After all, he managed to get Alan and Cody a position with EA already. But since he hasn't gotten back to me yet, my plan was to go see him in Saturday and talk with him in person. Until Blue Castle called.
Rachel surprised me with a call and told me that a position opened up at Blue Castle calling for a character artist for one of their sports titles. This is a junior character artist position that doesn't require any experience. Rachel said they were just looking for artistic talent and passion, both of which I believe I have, not to make too fine a point of it. We scheduled a phone interview for this Wednesday at 11:30 in the morning. Here's hoping everything will turn out well.
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