Ok, no I did not get a job… Yet. According to my job coach this is the next best thing!

The second phone interview with my most favorite company EVER went great! I couldn’t believe it. She started off saying she was excited to talk to me!! The conversation flowed pretty well (even though I had had WAY too much coffee and was jittery). She was even comfortable enough with me to talk about what position she was considering me for! She told me her boyfriend’s parents live in San Diego! (Which, these phone interviews are never personal, so I assume that’s a really good sign too…) I am supposed to hear from her or her assistant next week!!!

Anyhoo. Wish me luck people. This job would change my life!!

OMG I WANT THIS JOB!!!

tagged: funemployment job hunt   excited

daniel · early afternoon · say it · ping it

Hey kids!

Long time, no actual writing… I know. And you’d think with all this time on my hands I’d be writing up a storm! Ha! Not so much. As it turns out, unemployment isn’t nearly as fun as I thought it’d be. First of all, the state doesn’t just *give* you unemployment insurance money. There’s complicated bi-weekly paperwork that you have to actually mail. Like put a stamp on it and take it to the box by the curb… Then, because it’s complicated, I of course screwed mine up so my first check is going to be annoyingly fashionably LATE. The check will also arrive by mail, which will then entail a physical trip to the BANK. Ugh! Also, it’s not nearly as much money as you would make like if you were… you know, working. So there’s that aspect.

Now lets talk about how it’s been going for me personally. Well, the first week was like a vacation. My family visited. My WHOLE immediate family. We played, ate, gambled. You know, fun stuff. Then they left. Hmm. Just me. All alone all day with nothing to do and quite a bit depressed. That was the week of heavy drinking and too much sleep. I don’t recommend it. I mean it’s fun when life is on track and you have an income, but for me in my current situation it was not so good. This week, my third week unemployed, I implemented a strategy. A plan advised by a few friends, including VUBOQ (whom I credit with coining the term Funemployment). Sunday through Thursday I go to bed at a decent hour to wake up by 8 or 8:30 the following day. I spend the first half of the day doing online job hunt type stuff. Submitting resumes, filling out forms, 70 question Management Assessments… Like that. Then I have a sensible lunch. The remainder of the day I go to the gym. I am trying to add to my workouts, but I really max out after an hour and a half in there. But by the time I get home and shower it’s time to do some type of dinner. I call it My Routine. I am finding structure helps a lot. The day still passes funny without that 9 hour chunk spent earning a living, but it’s waaay better than last week. SO I’m going to keep it up.

Maybe I need to squeeze blogging into it too. LOL

tagged: funemployment   tired

daniel · late at night · say it · ping it