find a job

I got to drop off an application form of tomorrow and I will find out about an interview for a job tomorrow I think I put a shirt on and a tie in my bag just in case I get there quickly.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. 

Benjamin Franklin

Loads of people seem interested in hiring me… they just don’t have work right now. One company had me calling back yesterday only to post pone possible jobs another week (they still haven’t solidified the deal). Another company is having me call back on the 23rd, but neither know for sure if I’ll be able to find work through them. Also, a lot of people seem to be promising January, which I definitely don’t want to wait around for.

I’ve decided to get a part time job to help pay the bills till a real job gets through. I’ve spent the day working on a new resume aimed at jobs for make-up stores. Least I’ll still be working in the field I’d like (make-up) even if it’s the very very basics of a starting position. Plus, I’ll learn loads and be able to help people.

With a job like this, if I find small jobs ventilating, I’ll probably be able to work the two around each other so that I can still keep the part time job till I can ventilate and do make-up full time.

I must admit that I should feel more discouraged than I am over this. I know I’m going to make it, because I want this. If it means spending another 6 months pumping up my portfolio, than that’s what it means. I’ll get there. :)

i guess this!

First official day of work tomorrow and I’m hella nervous. Trying to keep the panic attacks to a minimum and continue to remind myself that I need this for Riley. This is all for Ri. I’d do anything for him and I know that I can get through a month and a half of work. But I’m still really nervous….

I swear I am the Susan Lucci of Roswell Park Cancer Institute. I have interviewed with them twice and one time I got the job but my stupid boss screwed that for me. Just when I thought that was over, they called me again and I am meeting with them for another department doing research. Right now I am working for the man at a health insurance company which, sounds just as horrific as you would think it would be. Its like everyone here is a drone, no one really smiles or laughs or talks really. The temp agency that placed me has lied about EVERYTHING from it being full time (its not, part time only, found that out today) to when training would start (you need to quit Childrens and start this place Monday…Thursday they call and say that I wont be starting for ANOTHER week so I had a week off AND burned a 3 year bridge)...to, well, everything.
So, I interviewed Monday with a University and today is Roswell. The company chose me to be one of 3 people to train for a hard job because I am bright and motivated. I told them today they should pick someone else because I wasnt going to stay because I need full time. I would stay on and do the daily work that 3 other people were doing. The manager told me today might be my last day. If I cant afford part time, I cant afford to not work. So, being honest and telling them they should chose someone else so they didnt waste the time or money training me didnt go so well.
I shot myself in the foot.

It’s fun how fast things turn around. Christian got a lead on place that was going to have work soon and had me call them. They got excited when I said that I ventilate hair and said they didn’t have anything yet, but I should call them next Tuesday and they’d have it worked out then!

A lead!! I also have a place like this to call back on the 23rd. Between the two, hopefully one of the places will hire me. :)

I called about 20 places today. Got to talk to 5 of them. 4 of them want me to send stuff in. One of them said there’d be a lot more work for me if I punched hair as well.

Hopefully things will up soon. Christian’s got a lot of positive feedback, which is awesome. I’m usually more optimistic, it’s just be a hard week.

I am very hesitant to mark this goal off as completed just yet. I have a job, I went through orientation today and will have my schedule tomorrow. Sounds really good, right? Wrong. Just orientation at this company alone was awful enough to send me to tears (when I got home of course is when I let them all out). So I think I’m going to hold off on checking this one off the list, but still keep the job and continue to look for another job. I have to remember that with “today’s economy”, a job period is hard to come by.

Got another job lead, but I’m not sure what this recruitment agency is thinking in putting me forward for it. I’ve got no skills to suit it. The salary is pretty lousy as well, but beggars can’t be choosers. My pride is so wounded right now that I’m not expecting to get very far with this. All the skills I’ve learned in these past 5 years seem to have made no difference. No one wants to hire me.

I confess that I thought being American might give me an edge – My old employer hired me based on his belief that Americans have better work ethics – but I think it’s actually going against me. Naturally employers want to give their own people first choice, especially with so much animosity going on between the Scots and certain ethnic minorities recently migrated into the country.

Anyone know how to make $40 stretch for a month?

I’m now an office assistant at Guam CEDDERS aka the Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service.