On the lighter side-Movies-Trance (2013)-James Mcevoy

An art auctioneer who has been involved in a theft of a precious art painting and who has developed amnesia teams up with a hypnotist to unlock his memory in order to locate the painting. Sometimes violent but very weird, has its moments but not for all tastes. Recommended with caution

On the lighter side-Movies- Vehicle 19 (2013)-Paul Walker

An innocent American in South Africa rents a car and is pursued by corrupt cops who want the car which may contain valuable contents. An average movie with South African scenery. I did not enjoy it too much. Not Recommended

The lottery craze

I went to s small grocery store near my house just to buy a soda and a guy was standing in line so I thought that he will be out in a minute but to my surprise he was dictating what kind of numbers he want on the lottery ticket and he had written the numbers on a paper and he went on and on and I was like man what is this guy doing holding the line for lottery and I started wondering that how the lottery has changed people's perception of how to get rich. He bought eight dollars worth of lottery tickets, which he could have used for some other necessary purpose but the get rich quick scheme never fails. I have already written about the lottery business before but to stand in line while the guy in front of me just keep on buying tickets is shocker to me. Too spend so much money in the hope that you do win some kind of big money is a big incentive for working class folks. But it is not only the ordinary folks who buy lotto tickets but even the ones who are making six figure salaries. I can understand that the lotto functions as an important part of the funding for school districts and other budgetary support but it is an addiction which is not as visible as other gambling areas (and believe me it is gambling but only state sanctioned). But the way people go crazy over lotto just to dream about those untold riches with odds way beyond anything is just ridiculous and incredible. It just shows how much hope there is that people carry that without much work, they can become millionaires overnight.

The dilemma in Resume building

It is my dilemma too. I am talking about how to build your resume when you don’t have concrete numbers to back it up. I mean when I went to a recruitment coach (or whatever you want to call a person who trains a person for an interview for a job), he told me to put something specific in numbers that I did that like increased the revenue or decrease the expenses and I told him that I work in the bank and am not an account officer so my effort to increase and decrease does not come into play and that when he started asking me what I do that I may have done something that I overlooked and it increased the revenue or saved the bank a lot of money or something like that so that employer knows that I am a productive person. Now here I am in a profession and in a position where my input is just a minuscule or even negligible part of the whole revenue and expense structure. So how do you define what you did was quantitatively relevant to what I can achieve in a new position. And it is not only my dilemma but for many positions in an organization where your input is impossible to quantify. The corporation who have pigeonholed so many of the professions into a place where if you don’t have the exact right skills, you are not even considered, how do you get into those corporation and how do you build your resume on truth and not fabricate it to suit some organization rigid criteria of what a person should do to increase their bottom line. I am still trying to figure this thing out.