Posted in life on Jun 24th, 2004
For some weeks now I have been sitting on an offer of work in Kansas City. It was the first, and is still the only, offer I’ve generated in over three months of looking. Because it is located in a city I had never before considered it was hard initially to generate any enthusiasm for [...]
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Posted in life on May 26th, 2004
Yesterday, the 25th, about this time I got the call I’ve been waiting to get for ten weeks. An offer. The written offer is in an overnight pouch scheduled to be here tomorrow.
All through the evening and through most of the night I was a little unhinged by the culmination of physical exhaustion, mental weariness, [...]
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Posted in life on May 26th, 2004
You’d think that getting a great job offer after ten weeks of unemployment would be great. You would think that. Turns out you’d be wrong.
The past ten weeks have stripped me of my confidence, stripped me of my trust in my inner voice. It is so hard not to think that the only common factor [...]
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Posted in life on May 25th, 2004
This morning I had the most intense and rigorous interview of my twenty year career. The gentleman on the other end of the phone was very up front about needing to vet me, and how he was going to achieve that. The thirty minutes left me excited and drained at the same time.
This afternoon I [...]
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Posted in life on May 21st, 2004
There has been some activity lately concerning my employment. Not wanting to jinx anything I haven’t written about it here, however, the lack of release from not writing is getting to me.
After nine weeks of unemployment I am definitely ready to return to work. Just about any work will do, thank you. I have prospects [...]
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