Week is winding down

The week is winding down, leaving me little to show for it. I have read through more of the manual today, as well as last night. I hope to finish it today. I did a solid 1x15 on reading, and I hope to link together 3 more during the next hour. I still haven't figured out how to do the bibliography effectively, but I feel much more comfortable with styles now.

Part of what has been taking my time is the job search, as I have had two telephone interviews this week. PhD-level jobs take a long time to find. I do not want to take a post-doc, even though that is the preferred move for an academic career. I have a family to take care of, and I do not want to move them to another post-doc after a year or two, and have a lower salary to show for it. I will likely end up in an industrial job anyway - why take a lower salary for less stability? Unfortunately, it seems like it is really hard to get on at a national lab or work for NASA unless you are working as a post-doc. Still, the first job is the first job -- not your entire career.

I have also used OpenOffice for my resume and CV. In my CV I inserted hyperlinks to my papers, homepage, and email. That way someone looking through it can click on those for further inspection. However, I changed the color back to black, and removed the underlining, so it prints clean. In this way, there is a little surprise for the reviewer. I also have the files converted to PDF. However, I had to play with it a bit so that the PDF conversion did not change the color back to blue. Also, I have not been able to get my headings to come up as bookmarks in the PDF. So, I still have some work to do.