Another Day 60: Life Goes On

 

Holidays and weekends don't count, so today marks 60 days unemployed. Considering I'm getting paid, am I really unemployed ? I guess so. It's going to continue to be a scary place until I have a job. For now, I consider this time off to be an extended vacation. I haven't been unemployed since 1985, so this has been a difficult adjustment. I really thought I'd have a new job by now, but in reality I haven't applied to that many jobs, I'm probably setting my salary expectations too high and I need to do more work on my resume.

I finally got a reply from Kurt today .. and he basically said an exception is not going to be granted and he's been told to interview other candidates. So there goes the perfect job .. all because I don't live close enough to an office. It is totally their loss but I'm the one sitting here without a job. So tomorrow I will work more on my resume and blast out as many applications as I can.

It's kind of perfect that the bad news came today, as it was rock and roll bingo night. I got his email at 4:15 and was leaving at 4:45, so I didn't have much time to sit around and feel sorry for myself. I've decided that if I can't find a job I will just retire and start collecting my pension and possibly social security in 2025. In the meantime, I will do what I can to find something.

I spent the day watching YouTube and playing Cookie Jam. I do check LinkedIn daily for jobs and I'm starting to look at Glassdoor and Indeed for other leads. I got another email from Verizon about checking out their open jobs, but they don't seem to have many remote roles - so I may run into the same issue with them.