I had my 13 week review with unemployment office yesterday, and Thursday I am going to a service for “Professionals” (that sounds so, um, hookerish doesn’t it?) to have my CV and cover letters reviewed and to hopefully receive some helpful hints.

I’ve been getting a little freaked out that the centre has been forwarding me posts that are 2/3 the salary I used to make, which was 2/3 of what I made before I moved here which equates to about 1/2 my former salary and oh my gawd BREATHE.

I decided that I because I am actually way OVER qualified for these positions, the solution is not to dumb myself down but to apply upwards. A friend’s friend recently got a swanky position merely because nobody else applied. So I rewrote my cover letter and have applied for a couple positions higher on that corporate ladder.

The ladder where I don’t want to be, but it does pay for fun things like food. And heat.