Baked goods aside, today’s work has been pretty fruitless. I have started reading the Wall Street Journal online, because I am hoping that being informed about business and financial news will somehow better inform my job-getting. I have also (obviously) been keeping up with the local news, and unfortunately the job situation looks pretty grim across the board. I look forward to the day when I can read the news and see words like “boom” and “upturn” and not “crisis” or “recession.” I would even settle for made-up terms, like “hiring melt” or “moneygive.”
Sometimes I am fine, and not having a job is like being on vacation, and other times I am like, “Oh fuck I am so fucked.”
I am doing well in terms of staying positive, but I am doing poorly in terms of actually putting pants on after I get out of bed in the morning. Mostly I sit at my computer and look for jobs or waste time in between obsessively checking employment sites, which even my cats find boring and depressing (and they have alarmingly low standards). Today included lots of looking at pictures of cakes online, reading lots of news (most notable were stories of layoffs and furloughs and spending cuts in local and national employers (except for the Zoo. Note to self: apply for zoo jobs tomorrow), the clap, Blagojevich, and something about Steve Jobs taking a sabbatical and accidentally forgetting to name me as his successor), and a healthy bit of Facebook.
Goal for tomorrow: start my day between 8:00 and 9:00AM, have a cup of coffee, and do not take a four-hour nap in the middle of the day. I think this is doable, especially since I have a 10:00AM voice lesson. Also, maybe I should do some laundry or something. I think that if I get better at structuring my own time, I’ll be more successful when I actually do get a job. Maybe I’ll get there on time once or twice.
Oh, and apply for a Census job. It could be lucrative.
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