Unemployment day 3

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darouse54
by darouse54
26-Jun-2008
 

This morning again I woke up thinking about last Friday’s meeting again, I just realize how horrible I was treated and I should have done the same thing they did by doing my best to make them look bad. That whole thought process took 10 minutes and after that I was ready to start a new day.

In the past 6-7 years I have accepted working as part of daily life and often I have allowed it to take control of my life so I’m using these days to connect to my root and remember what really makes me happy.

I already have few leads on jobs and many people that have asked for updated resume, so every morning I have to spend at least an hour to catch up with that process. Today it took much longer because I spend a long time talking to a friend from work that was like mentor to me. I really should have asked for her advice during that period of time but we both agreed that no matter what the out came would have been the same.

There is a plus side to not working these days and that Euro 2008, I had missed all the games till this week and today’s game between Germany and Turkey made up for all of them. I love watching sports but soccer (the real football) has a special place in my heart so being able to watch a great game while working out in the middle of the day was priceless.

 I believe that it might take up to a month before I get any responses to my applications, so a call from a HR today was quite surprising. This wasn’t one of those calls to talk about my resume; this was to tell me that there will be an interview tomorrow morning and start a back ground check (already?). So I have an interview tomorrow for a company that I know little about it and a position that isn’t ideal but hey I’m making progress.

After that very surprising phone call I drove to SF for school, tonight’s class is theory of management. I couldn’t wait to see my professor to tell him in reality 90% of management theory never gets practiced even in a much respected institute AKA my last company.  My poor professor really didn’t have much to say and agreed to most of my points; he did say that at some point companies will learn from their mistakes but at the expense of people like me.

After class I was ready to go home and start preparing for my interview but a block before entering the high way a taxi driver told me to check my tire and guess what? I had a tire that was slashed at both sides and if I had drove into the highway it would have exploded and I would have ended up in ER instead of interview. Any other day I would have called this a bad thing but tonight I’m happy and thankful, it could have been a lot worse.

So to sum the third day of my unemployment I have to say it was a good day and with this paste I may have to change the title of my future titles to “new job day 1”

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Take whtever job you can find

by ali reza (not verified) on

If you are desperate take whatever job that is offered to you.Meantime look for the job that you really love.
Good luck


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What a great attitude you have!

by American Wife (not verified) on

And I agree with Mouse... the difference would probably be just a couple of days between finding that "great" job and just a "job".  Looks like you're using your downtime wisely... enjoying yourself!  I can only imagine the mental toll it takes and I wish you all the best!

Good luck!


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Take your time

by Anonymouse on

It is not fun finding a job quickly, unless you find a REALLY good job.  Whether it is for salary, kind of job or location.