Get my Job Search into HIGH Gear!!!!!!!! and ask LOTS of Questions along the WAY....

i have come to the following conclusions:

1. living off my savings was a smart move for some time, but i Really need to start working now.

2. I think I should temp rather than look for a permanent Job-job, because so many things are Up in the Air—like Grad school decisions, parents’ health, possibility of going to India for study…

3. I will have to deal with the ego nudge that temping can give.

So far I have gone to one temp agency this week, and took the tests. I realize that I know pitifully little re: Excel… should probably take a course.

i have a friend that is a career counsellor. talking stuff out with her made life easier :)

also, i don’t know if i was proactive about it really, i think i just got lucky with job offers.

touchwood.

an interview for an internship at an interesting sounding publishing house in NYC… i know i’m probably overqualified, but am intrigued to finally learn more about publishing… hmm.

applied to one job online

and

wrote a letter to friends, requesting them to help in my search for networking possibilities in New York City…

i’d like to try this:
to work two part time jobs rather than 1 full time one.

one could be more serious, using my skills in teaching, education, marketing, sales…

the other could be like the bookstore job… something lower stress, less responsibility, and with greater scope for meeting interesting people…

had an impromptu job interview yesterday, at the Hungarian pastry shop

across the street from St. John the Divine