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Sun, Mar. 4th, 2018 05:12 pm
I DID IT I applied to all the jobs currently listed on Seek. There are NINE. This is insane! I never see more then two or three. Honestly you're lucky to see more than one. Included in the mix are two part-time, one junior position, two which have technically expired but they're still listed, one that forced me to apply through Seek, where the biggest file you could upload was 2mb, and I physically cannot get my portfolio under that, so I didn't attach it and instead directed them to my website and if they want to see the print version they can jolly well look at the 8mb version like everyone else. There are five studio positions, one at a hair care and beauty products place that has a super confusing website (they also do printing??? But the job ad specifically mentions hair care and beauty products???), one at a fertiliser and one at Bickford's. Every single one of them, with the exception of the casual junior position, is paying more than what I'm currently getting. Three make me salivate, one in particular which would be The Dream, which also mentions illustration in the 'this would be useful but not vital' section and I've heard of them and holy shit that would be an awesome role. I've put everything into that one.
There are nine jobs. I know from past experience that roughly 60-70 people apply for each job, so normally I'm a one-in-65 chance. Now I'm a nine-in-65, so that's better! I can't possibly be second-best at all of them. SOMEONE HIRE ME. This is the best opportunity I've ever had. Pleeeeeease work out. Tomorrow I'll have a look at the ones on Indeed. It's got 13 listed, but a cursory glance shows one as being a store manager at Typo, and half of them are offering over 100k so I highly doubt they're mid-weight graphic design jobs, either. Still, might be something worth going for.
Meanwhile, I'm hungry. I don't care that it's only 5pm I'm making dinner.
EDIT 9:41pm FUCKING SHIT PISS ARSE FUCK. I WAS HACKED AGAIN. ONLY MORE SUBTLY. Gmail just told me it hasn't updated my bloogum emails since March 2. Check bloogum and sure enough, there's another page there saying 'Account Suspended' though it looks different this time. Go to lodge a support ticket, and find this 6-ticket long thing that basically follows this:
27 Feb: We have received an abuse report that your site is hosting a phishing site and is involved in criminal activity as per the following details: (something about Bank of America). We were forced to suspend the account to block any further criminal activity and abuse. Please get back in contact with us within 24 hours to prevent further actions against your account.
28 Feb: We have not received any reply from you. If we are not receiving any update on next 24 hours regarding the spamming we force to suspend your domain.
1 March: I've suspended the account. You need to take actions to secure the account by changing all passwords and updating all scripts/plugins/themes to the latest version
2 March: We have noticed suspicious files/folders in other folders as well. Please perform a thorough audit and remove all vulnerable files/folders from the account and secure all third party scripts in the account.
This is UTTER BULLSHIT. Why did nobody contact me about this? I haven't received anything by email or phone, for something so serious as suspending my account. I've given them one hour to fix this, and if I don't have bloogum up and running within said hour, I'm finding another host. I don't care if I've been with them for almost 15 years, this lack of communication, not to mention the lack of security and my site being hacked twice this year, is shit.
I've directed nine prospective employers to my beautiful, mobile-responsive web folio. If it's not fixed by 9am tomorrow morning I am fucked.
EDIT 10:51pm Progress is being made. Apparently some permissions on my Wordpress sites were extremely dangerous and he's made them 400 instead of 664 or 666. Idk what that means. They also pointed out two malicious files/directories that I've now deleted, and they've released bloogum itself back into the world. They're scanning now to see if anything else comes up. Whyyyyy the shit does this happen? And why just as I'm applying for jobs and need bloogum to be working?
EDIT 12:29am FIXED. BED TIME omfg I do not need this shit. I was going to go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight to be fresh for the beginning of the week and last day of Clipsal closures. But no. It's 12:30. Any other time I'd have said 'bugger it' hours ago, but I need this working for job applications. UGH. Thank god it's over (again).
There are nine jobs. I know from past experience that roughly 60-70 people apply for each job, so normally I'm a one-in-65 chance. Now I'm a nine-in-65, so that's better! I can't possibly be second-best at all of them. SOMEONE HIRE ME. This is the best opportunity I've ever had. Pleeeeeease work out. Tomorrow I'll have a look at the ones on Indeed. It's got 13 listed, but a cursory glance shows one as being a store manager at Typo, and half of them are offering over 100k so I highly doubt they're mid-weight graphic design jobs, either. Still, might be something worth going for.
Meanwhile, I'm hungry. I don't care that it's only 5pm I'm making dinner.
EDIT 9:41pm FUCKING SHIT PISS ARSE FUCK. I WAS HACKED AGAIN. ONLY MORE SUBTLY. Gmail just told me it hasn't updated my bloogum emails since March 2. Check bloogum and sure enough, there's another page there saying 'Account Suspended' though it looks different this time. Go to lodge a support ticket, and find this 6-ticket long thing that basically follows this:
27 Feb: We have received an abuse report that your site is hosting a phishing site and is involved in criminal activity as per the following details: (something about Bank of America). We were forced to suspend the account to block any further criminal activity and abuse. Please get back in contact with us within 24 hours to prevent further actions against your account.
28 Feb: We have not received any reply from you. If we are not receiving any update on next 24 hours regarding the spamming we force to suspend your domain.
1 March: I've suspended the account. You need to take actions to secure the account by changing all passwords and updating all scripts/plugins/themes to the latest version
2 March: We have noticed suspicious files/folders in other folders as well. Please perform a thorough audit and remove all vulnerable files/folders from the account and secure all third party scripts in the account.
This is UTTER BULLSHIT. Why did nobody contact me about this? I haven't received anything by email or phone, for something so serious as suspending my account. I've given them one hour to fix this, and if I don't have bloogum up and running within said hour, I'm finding another host. I don't care if I've been with them for almost 15 years, this lack of communication, not to mention the lack of security and my site being hacked twice this year, is shit.
I've directed nine prospective employers to my beautiful, mobile-responsive web folio. If it's not fixed by 9am tomorrow morning I am fucked.
EDIT 10:51pm Progress is being made. Apparently some permissions on my Wordpress sites were extremely dangerous and he's made them 400 instead of 664 or 666. Idk what that means. They also pointed out two malicious files/directories that I've now deleted, and they've released bloogum itself back into the world. They're scanning now to see if anything else comes up. Whyyyyy the shit does this happen? And why just as I'm applying for jobs and need bloogum to be working?
EDIT 12:29am FIXED. BED TIME omfg I do not need this shit. I was going to go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight to be fresh for the beginning of the week and last day of Clipsal closures. But no. It's 12:30. Any other time I'd have said 'bugger it' hours ago, but I need this working for job applications. UGH. Thank god it's over (again).