Found It!

I just found my blog! I know that sounds stupid to a lot of people, but after posting my first blog with enthusiasm, planning to blog about my transition experience (unemployment), I couldn't find it. I went online the next day and tried everything until I concluded it was lost forever in cyberspace. I thought, "That's ok. I will be working in a week anyway after I get those 18 incredible offers."

I use Facebook, Twitter (kind of) and have been on the internet since 1995. I have a new Macbook, IPhone, use the maps, GPS, even the camera, so this was really embarrassing. But who would ever know? If I was the author and couldn't find it, surely no one else will find my single blog either. I really didn't want my kids to find out. They've taught me most everything I know about computers.

I imagined about what might happen 1500 years from now when some team of "archaeologists" discovered my single blog, one day from 2010, and created a theory of some supposed natural disaster, volcano, war, or something, that cut my life short, and stopped the miserable existence of this 21st century jobless in Seattle person. Or they would figure I just disappeared somewhere into the joblessphere, just like my blog disappeared into the blogosphere.

But I found my blog! How you ask? Well, one afternoon as I browsed the internet, after sending my resume, presentation materials, vimeo site, or "vita" as the high class people call it, to about a dozen more people, I had a brilliant thought. I wonder if these people that have all this info, might google me. And if they google "Mark Nordtvedt," what would they find? The last time I googled my name a few years ago there were pitifuly few references to Mark Nordtvedt. There were more posts about my kids! And, some brilliant physicist named Ken Nordtvedt, PhD, who has his own published physics theory. He is supposedly related in some distant way. Couldn't tell by my science acumen though! I guess if I was smart enough to have my own physics theory I probably would't be out of work right now.

So, I googled my name, just to see what prospective employers, recruiters or headhunters would see. I got to page four after discovering much more than I thought I would find, and there it was! My blog!

Since my wife has been encouraging me (nice for nagging) to blog about this experience to help everybody else through this unemployment season, I thought maybe I should. I don't know why I'm feeling so selfless and altruistic. No one seems to be helping me! But then, I'm a Christian, and a pastor. Is a pastor a pastor when they're unemployed? I don't know. I'll have to ask Ken the physicist that question? Maybe he can help me develop my own theory.