Thursday April 25, 2013

Well it's been just about a month since I became unemployed.  I must say there are a LOT of Job Boards out there, and you can spend hours reading through the jobs.  Sadly it seems that whatever job  I find that looks interesting , has 49 applicants already.  There are an awful lot of sales jobs, but the majority seem to be in finances or other areas in which I have no experience or interest whatsoever.

This job search looks like it's going to take longer than I thought.  If only I could get paid to stay home, clean the house, read emails, knit, and make teddy bears.

I have started making my teddy bears again, after several years.  That's Kirby up there at the top of the page..... I even set up a Facebook page for them: Teddy Bears Picnic.  My goal: make about 12-15 bears and start up a site on Etsy.

Who knows?  Perhaps I may end up working from home... One never knows.  Maybe I really need a part time job.  I think I would make a great administrative assistant.... Heck, I KNOW I would.  The trick is finding the person or persons who need ME.

Today is Tuesday.  The sun came out and it was glorious and warm, like a Summer day.  I had very little experience of this actual glorious ness as I spent most of my day indoors, taking part in 3 separate "webinars" that are supposed to help me to write the most perfect resume, learn how to market myself like a valuable asset, and try to figure out just what the heck I want to do now.

It is quite overwhelming.  I am told I should find a job that I can FLOURISH in.  I must make lists of what I don't want to do, what I might want to do, what I DO want to do.  I must make lists and fill in questionnaires and take tests that will help me determine just what it is that I ought to be doing with my life.

Phew.  Thank goodness it's time to get dinner started, I can't think about this any more today.

Today is the first day....

Yes, today is the first day of the rest of my life.  That's what they say, isn't it, when something has made a change in your life.... Usually not a planned one.  I was not planning at this point in my life on getting laid off from my job.  

I had been thinking, however, and not in the all that distant past, of LOOKING for a new job.  I somehow thought that I would be the one making the decision of when I would leave, but here that decision had been made by someone else.

I have to say that at first I was shocked.  I was surprised and very upset.  I worked at this job for nearly 8 years.  8 years out of my life spent in the crazy world of retail.  Then I became angry.  Angry that they could do this to me.

It took me a few days to let it all settle in.... Days that I had to spend at that job, as I had been given my "notice" nearly a month before my actual last day was to be.  Finally I came to terms with it and realized that this was the BEST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TO ME.