It's January 2012. I never thought I'd be sitting at my kitchen table, freezing because the house thermostat is turned down to conserve, and still posting for jobs. Seven months in and only two interviews. It's enough to make you question your validity, worth, and sanity. And they say it's getting better? I hope so, and I'm waiting for "better" to show up in my neighborhood.
It's not financially tough for me, yet, but as each day goes on, I'm losing faith that I will get up in the morning and have a purpose to get dressed, get in my car and go to work. I need to work.
I don't think the online job agents work well at all and I am in search of an agency -- one agency -- that I can work with, get to know ME and what I'm capable of instead of the limited online resume.
If you are out there, tell me how you're coping, what works, what doesn't work.
It's 2018, six years later. I'm sitting at my kitchen table in a new home (1.5 years in) and not looking for a job. I'm more retired than not. I like my new home, it's very serene here i Four Seasons. I'm not freezing and I'm in better shape than I was in 2012, at least I think so.
ReplyDeleteI now work on occasion as a temporary front office admin. It's fine. I get time to excercise.
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March 23, 2023
ReplyDeleteIt's 5 years since my last post. I'd love to say I was busy, but I've just been retired and get my joints replaced! Two new knees since 2020. It's keeping me down lately. Doing physical therapy for left leg pain (a result from surgery) I enountered a new pain on my right hip area. It's mild arthritis the doctor told me. But after PT yesterday a.m., I felt good enough to walk almost a mile yesterday, but afterwards, I was in a lot of pain. I'm sticking with PT for another week and then I may request an MRI. I can't stand the off-again, on-again pain. I had visions that this spring we would (a) go to Florida to visit my step-daughter and our two "Baby B's" grandsons (ages 6 and 4) and (b) take Pickleball lessons and (c) walking a lot more. Not happening. Other than that,
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