要点：

1、新冠、抗疫（全美新增破5万，死亡过千）

2、过日子琐事（job agent本事大）

3、感慨杂谈（下半年开始了-没得感慨）

4、附：工作空档的解释

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全美新增破5万，死亡过千。

有新闻说加州住院增加了70%。

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job agent把我洋洋洒洒三段关于近一年工作的空档，用三句话概括；最后在SAP工作，可以增加但绝不能夸大。最后，还让我一百个不情愿地把Linkedin里的早先工作删了。

一个12个人的小公司，主要为军工单位维护系统。作为只做开发没什么系统维护经验的中国人（且不提我的年龄），怎么可能？agent还真的争取来电话面试！

不觉得有希望，履历上提到的东西也不能一问三不知。猛烈回忆，基本把自己做过的事情捋顺了。

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7月1日，下半年开始了。除了见证历史，啥都没做。

有点想写些主题文章。

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附：对近一年的工作空档的解释 - 我的原叙述和有本事的job agent的概括。

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My last job is a contract job. Due to the company's realignment and budget cut, the contract positions in my team got cut off with a short notice. Right before I left, the team manager talked to me and expressed his strong willingness to bring me back whenever he had a budget - the estimated time is 2 - 4 months. I was considering that I should take a good vacation during that break time. Unfortunately the team didn't get extra budget since then.

Early this year, my father-in-law got diagnosed as the late stage of lung cancer. The visa to China was very difficult to get. Till my father-in-law passed away on 5/19, we didn't get the visa and we gave up. Due to the trip had been uncertain, I could not focus on searching a job.

In the meantime I am trying to find a good job opportunity, I am doing some volunteer works. One of the volunteer work is "COVID-19: Case Investigation & Contact Tracing" for my county government.

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NOTE, there is an explainable gap in employment following SAP budget cuts with rehire eligibility in 4 months.  Joy embraced this much needed break to visit ailing family in China with plans to return to work Dec/Jan timeframe.  She began the lengthy visa process which stalled indefinitely before the virus broke.  Travel was prohibited, and her father-in-law passed shortly thereafter.  Since, Joy has been volunteering for Covid-19 case investigation and contact tracing while exploring new career options.