Getting organized is going to be the first priority, the change of setting from work to home creates a major shift in my working method. I didn't even know how to get coffee or breakfast this morning!! Speaking of which, I'll need to make a quick run to flushing for breakfast food. But before I go, following is a list of task I need to complete for the day.
1. Edit my resume, and update with information from BRB.
2. Email Matt regarding the 118 street opportunities and see when I can get started.
3. Look up habitat for humanity and see what opportunities are available.
4. Email the Ralph Lauren Polo job and see if it is still available.
5. Start my blog already!!
So check, check and check. Its five o'clock and do you know where your kids are? I gotten all of my tasks completed except for the email to the polo job, a bit late in the day so I'll send it out comes Monday.
There have been a few things I have thought about exploring further, like the nerd I am here's numbered list:
1. a listing for job in Kuwait came up, I have thought about working internationally before. It sounds exciting but I'll have to look into it further and talk to a few people who had done it to see what its like.
2. Strangely the thought about the Chinese temple had came up again today. I really liked my design for the temple and would really like to see it built, the last I have heard the new architect and contractor they picked after me gave the client a very high estimate which all but killed the project all together. I know that the desire to built it is still there, and I am willing to go very far to see my idea realized.
3. Competitions! I have talk about this before but now is the perfect time!
4. LEED, nough said.
That's it for now, to be expanded!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Architecture for Humanity
I was feeling restless after cleaning out my office, so I wanted to get started with doing some work for Architecture for Humanity right away. The AFHny website advice that prospect volunteer should attend their next monthly gathering on December 13th to see what projects are available, a look and see of sort. I certainly can't wait that long! So I decided to contact their director to see if they have anything available right away. Here's my email to her:
Dear Cynthia,
I have heard about Architecture for Humanity and the projects your chapter had done on several occasion and had always been interested in participating.
A recent round of layoff had given me quite a bit of free time and I thought that this would be a great opportunity to get involved and contribute what I can. I have gone through the website and saw that the next meeting is on December the 9th, not wanting to wait I thought to contact you directly to see if there are any projects that would require help immediately.
I am a NY state licensed architect and with 12 years of experiences, having worked on a pretty wide variety of project type from institution, education to retail interior. I have also served as a project manager for the past four years and have had a good amount of management and administration experiences.
I saw the 119th street Gatehouse posting and the call for a licensed architect to study the ADA accessibility issue, I will contact Matt directly regarding this project. In the mean time please do not hesitate to let me know if you can think of anything else I can be of help with.
-Hsiang Lin
917.686.0908
If they don't have anything, I'll call NY care next. What does guy have to do to give away free services???
My first thoughts
So these were my thoughts Tuesday morning on my way to work, after having found out about my layoff the day before:
The landmark engine is still there, buried under piles of complacencies over the years. Nothing like a challange to make things a bit more interesting.
In my conversation with Barbara the other night about her job, I realize that there are something missing from my life, the sense that I am helping some one and making a difference. My job was not supplying that. I was solving problems and making things happen. But there was not the sense that I was making a differences in some one's life.
Being on my own, I now have the means as well as the responsibility to full fill these aspects of my life.
I will have to Operate as a business entity,which means covering the varies aspects of the business; marketing, research, investment and philanthropy. Few of these might seem strange to consider at time like this, philanthropy? But I firmly believes (as burrowed from tony robin) that a person's strength directly relates to his abilities to give. And in time like these, it is all that more important to give, when it is needed the most.
But enough with the jibber jabber, it's time to get something done.
Oh, also. Speaking to my future self, it is terribly important to stay focused, organized and diciplined. Regular work hours should be maintained and I need to manage each aspect of my business as a project and develop a plan and schedule for it.
The landmark engine is still there, buried under piles of complacencies over the years. Nothing like a challange to make things a bit more interesting.
In my conversation with Barbara the other night about her job, I realize that there are something missing from my life, the sense that I am helping some one and making a difference. My job was not supplying that. I was solving problems and making things happen. But there was not the sense that I was making a differences in some one's life.
Being on my own, I now have the means as well as the responsibility to full fill these aspects of my life.
I will have to Operate as a business entity,which means covering the varies aspects of the business; marketing, research, investment and philanthropy. Few of these might seem strange to consider at time like this, philanthropy? But I firmly believes (as burrowed from tony robin) that a person's strength directly relates to his abilities to give. And in time like these, it is all that more important to give, when it is needed the most.
But enough with the jibber jabber, it's time to get something done.
Oh, also. Speaking to my future self, it is terribly important to stay focused, organized and diciplined. Regular work hours should be maintained and I need to manage each aspect of my business as a project and develop a plan and schedule for it.
Why getting fired was the best thing that ever happend to me
Getting fired is like having a death in the family, every one who heard would often grow a long face and say things like "are you okay?", "I am terribly sorry to hear that".
Well its not, work had slow down to a trickle and I had spend the past few month mindlessly surfing the web and trying hard to look busy. In a way I feel some what liberated, in lieu of a slow certain death what I had received in return was uncertainly but also possibility and that, is a magical word.
Well its not, work had slow down to a trickle and I had spend the past few month mindlessly surfing the web and trying hard to look busy. In a way I feel some what liberated, in lieu of a slow certain death what I had received in return was uncertainly but also possibility and that, is a magical word.
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