I hope you are all having a great holiday and enjoying this week between the chaos of Christmas and the chaos of a New Year. I’m just taking a little break but I’ll be back strong in 2011, if not before.
The Job Gods Have A Sense Of Humor, But I’m Not Laughing
I had been out of work for almost 3 years and now, the day before Christmas Eve, everyone I know – and apparently everyone I don’t know – is home, snuggled in their beds, visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads. I, however, am sitting at my desk drinking my…
Life Is A Revolving Door
I started my new job a week ago and one of the women in my office is leaving the company tomorrow. Even though we do totally different jobs, it’s the yin and the yang, the Circle of Life. She’s excited about her new opportunity and seems more than ready to…
Give Me A Large Rock And A Chisel
You know you’ve been out of work a long time when you go to order office supplies to order a notebook to write things in with a pen and computers come up. Same with tablets.
Yup, That’s My Name On My Office Door
I am struggling with a major case of uncomfortableness in the new job and I’m trying to analyze what is going on. Is it just returning to the work force after so much time? Is it the fact that I am, for the first time in my career, not the…
Rejection Only Hurts If You Care
I received this email today, on my second day of work at my new job: Dear Sister Rain, Thank you for your interest in XYZ Medical. Unfortunately, this email is to inform you that we have filled the Meeting Planner position. We invite you to revisit our website to view…
Who Is That? Oh, It’s Me!
On my way to my first day on the job I stopped at Wawa for coffee. For those of you who don’t know Wawa, it’s a really great convenience store here in Pennsylvania and other close states. Anyway, as I was pulling into a parking spot I noticed one woman…
My Girl Scout Leader Would Be Ashamed
Here it is, the Eve before I start my new job. I’ve been saying since I got the offer that I needed to go through my winter work clothes (because it’s been freezing here already oh joy) to see what fits and what I can still wear and now it’s…
1,000 Visitors Served
My blog reached 1,000 visitors today. It’s quite a milestone for not only me but my job search. I started this blog in January and since then I’ve struggled through my unemployment, a new job that was terribly, terribly wrong, unemployment again — this time on my own terms but…
My Cup Runneth Half Full
Two more days until I start my new job. I was busy today with some final Christmas shopping and visiting with family. It’s a different kind of time off for me now, I am way more relaxed since I know I have a job and yet now with each passing…