Gainful Employment, how I've missed you.

I got a job! Don't get too excited, it is possibly the worst job I can think of doing. I could go so far as to say it is up there with turning tricks. It is however, a paycheck with benefits (I'm fairly sure you don't get a 401(k) from a pimp). So I will be thankful and be happy that I will not have to live in a card board box. It has nothing to do with my "chosen profession" and nothing to do with the profession that I will be attending grad school for next fall, it is something that the company elected to pay me more than most because of my vast experience in the area.

I kept a sort of day by day journal of my time in Spain and as soon as I clean that up to one blog entry I'll post it along with pictures. So fear not I will provide you with much info on Antonin Gaudi, Segrada Familia and all the hot Spaniards.

I can't take any more!

So in the last couple weeks there has been so much craziness in my life and literally if some one gives me one more thing to deal with I might have a heart attack. I have 2 family members (aunt and grandma) in hospitals in bad shape. I have so many money worries that I might need to start borrowing against my retirement fund. Then I am only steps away from panhandling on the metropolitan corners of downtown Loveland. My BFF is going into labor (yes, I have a million pregnant friends) I would give anything to be on my way to Wichita right now to be with her but I can't. I have a precious cousin who wants to leave a neighboring town to go live with my parents, where I would see much less of her, which would seriously bum me out. Last but not least my first big job opportunity since the evil company that has been stringing me along for almost 2 months, has presented itself. It would require something like an hour and 20 minute commute each way. It would be really great but I would really like something closer.

In no particular order

a list of things which people have told me I'm good at:

- Playing Tetris
- Singing
- Being a good friend
- Kissing
- Baking kick ass cookies

and last but not least:

-Interview for jobs

I have been told by many people that I may have been the best person at interviewing they have interviewed. So why I ask, do I still have no job???

Career Change

So I believe this is the longest I have been jobless in my entire life. I am now going on over a month with no income. Picking up and moving cross country on no notice sucks like that. So with all the trouble I am having getting back into a job in my chosen profession, I have picked a few alternatives to start researching if worse comes to worst.

1) Cryptozoologist- I will go hang out in jungles and look for things like the Loch Ness monster and el Chupa Cabra. Hey I sure hope there is no special degree needed for this.

2) Professional Dominatrix- according to my favorite blogger Dan Savage, for this career to be legal there is no sexual contact. I would get to put hot boots and be mean to men (I think I am at a good place it my life for the man hating).

3) The next Ace of Cakes- I love to bake. Cake is good. There is no bad here. Now if you have eaten one of my cakes you might say, yes delicious but not beautiful, so I might need to work on this a little.


Let me know if there are any other alternative careers I am missing.

Friday is Magic for Muggles!

I'm having mixed fellings as we approach the end happy that we'll know but sad that there won't be any more. I am refering to the last Harry Potter book (I'm being completely upfront about my dorkiness here). I also decided to go stand in line at midnight tomorrow so I can start reading earlier and finish over the weekend before I have to go back to WORK on monday.
Oh yes folks that was no typo, I did get that job and I actually heard back the very next day, so I am getting back into the grind after being unemployed for 2 months now. I'm nervous and excited all at once. Now all I have to do is get the guts up to ask for the friday before labor day weekend off so I can go with Tim to meet his parents.

Ode to tedium

Tim and I were discussing how every job in the world must be tedious at times. (This was actually my stance on the subject he disagreed). Right now though I say bring it on! I'm ready to cold call, send out flyers and join every professional group in town. I am so ready to be working not in just any job but in my chosen field and if down the road I get burned out well then it's back to school for this girl and then I can just get my masters in something else. If there is one thing I would say about myself is that I am adaptable and willing to change tacts if one isn't working - I refuse to beat a dead horse.

So I just had an interview with the firm of my dreams, and I'm still waiting on the offer from the firm of my nightmares. I have hope however, that even if I have to be unemployed for a little while that I will be able to find a job in my chosen profession and not just at another booth peddling my wireless solutions.

I also have been considering this morning that if I do in fact get this job with the start date of July 23rd. I might skip town for a bit (since there would be no chance of going on vacation with Tim's family) I miss my peeps, all of them! So then the question would be where to go? Maybe home, maybe CO, maybe FL...but I think it just might be a good idea. Here are some pictures of the totally rad people I miss:

so bored

what surprises me about being unemployed is that I still manage to have stuff to do most of the time. My house is cleaner, we don't lack for laundry and the dishes are always done and I water the garden. I've been doing a lot of job applying mostly and also researching the series 7 exam (which I found out I can't take unless I'm employed by a company that is registered by the NASD) Anyway I'm bored out of my skull so feel free to call me and chat my ear off I won't mind. I'm going to go be super productive and hope I forget that I'm not bring home any bacon.

One week

So my head is spinning with all the applications and calls I have been getting because of the applications. I had forgotten how tiring the full time job search can be. I am now trying to take a new look at this "opportunity" because if I can get a job relatively quickly I will have 3 months of double income!

That sounds like a vacation to me, I want to go to Disney World, Tim wants to go to the mountains (If I can get him to the Rockies I will be quite willing to cave.) I'm trying to stay as positive as possible. I'm not on the street pan handling or anything yet.

Tonight starts the last "weekend" of my job before I go on the permenant weekend. I'm really excited, tonight is the first wednesday night market in downtown Santa Rosa along with a free jazz concert in the park and Tim and I are going. We will probably finish the evening assembling our new lawn furniture we got last night. Ah the weekend.

Downsized

There are so many good jokes that come to mind: We aren't picking up your option, you are part of an outplacement program, were movinging in another direction. The main gist of these is the fact that I just lost my job. The rent went up for my location and my company decided that we weren't profitable enough to merit paying more to keep us open. So I sit before you jobless in 2 weeks time with a lovely severence package and a soul full of worry.

"when one door closes another opens"...yes yes I've heard it, it's been a main theme in my life since yesterday, that and "it's for the best", and "you didn't really like that job anyway." My very favorite was "Do you want to go on vacation?" that was from my own dear, sweet Tim upon hearing the news between my tears and gulps for breath.

Overqualified. I've taken my time looking for the "right" job knowing that I had this one which I was good at I had been there for years and I had good benefits with. My biggest fear now is having to find another "in between" job. No one wants a bank teller with a bachelors degree in finance. Cold, cold world here I come.

PS this is a cute picture of Tim and I and his niece to brighten up this sad post.