Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Still no job

I still am without employment.  I had not thought it would be this hard to get a job.  I do not feel that I am being all that picky.  I have been applying and sending resumes to jobs that I would like to do.  I can hear my dad saying, well maybe you'll have to do something you dont really want to do, you need a job.  And yes of course that is the obvious implication.  But its not like I had turned down any offers or had even passed by all that many opportunities to submit a resume.  I guess maybe it would be more accurate to say that I had applied to everything I could see myself doing.  some things have been excluded from this so far; waitering, retail.  I have a four year degree and two years of very hard professional experience!  how the flying fuck does that make me qualified to pilot a register?

I dont know where to go.  I have signed up with two temp agencies.  no call back yet.  I have followed every lead I can think of.  Julie is great right now.  She continues to encourage me.  She wants me to go to organizations that I am interested in or that I would like to work with and just talk with them about what they do to see if I can volunteer with them.  I have a hard time doing that when every day puts me closer to when I am going to run out of money.  I know that God is with me here, I know that I am in the right place.  But what the hell is God doing?  I dont understand what is going on.

Most people that I talk to who know what is going on with me, which is most of the community now, will ask if I have found a job yet.  They are very sympathetic and I try not to react poorly.  I am learning how to do that.  It is sometimes hard living among a community of pastors who are learning to console and counsel people who are going through hard times.   I can tell when most people go into a professional kind of mode.  you can see the change in their face from talking to you just to talk to you to doing something that they have been trained to do.  I wouldnt want to say that this is a bad change but just one I have noticed.  But none of them have been able to do what I want them to do, which is find a solution.

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