The story so far:

As many of you are aware, I was working at a job I despised. So, in March, I received a call from a very highly-regarded consulting firm about an assignment with one of their clients. He assured me that the client told him they had at least 3 to 6 months' worth of work. I interviewed, initially the client didn't want me, they sent a message to the recruiter, the recruiter offered me a chance to rebut their concerns, and the client reconsidered. I accepted, quit my awful, awful job, and signed the consulting agency's offer letter.

On my first day, the manager introduced me to the receptionist: "This is Matt. He'll be here until the end of the month." Phone calls were made. More reassurances that the client had at least 3 to 6 months' worth of work.

I was there until the end of the month.

The work was fine and I had a good time being there, but the crux of the situation is that I quit a full-time job for a one month contract. And don't I feel like a jackass.

So, for the past three weeks I've been interviewing. My favorite experience so far has been the time I sent a guy a plain-text resume instead of MS Word. Guy had no idea what to make of it. When I showed up for the interview, two people came up to me to comment on it.

"Is this how Macs format documents?"
"No, it's plain text. It's just characters without the formatting. You can paste it into a Word document and format it however you want."
"So that's how Macs handle Word documents?"

To paraphrase Rita Rudner, I then turned to an invisible judge and said, "And that's when I killed them, Your Honor."