Category: adventures in unemployment
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A day of firsts
Today is the first day of my retirement from state service — officially. My last day on the payroll was Tuesday, but I had two days of vacation still so I burned them and didn’t go to work Monday or Tuesday. This morning I was no longer on the payroll. I spent a big chunk Read.
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Time out
Hey! This is my last week of near-absolute freedom to do whatever I want before I start my new job on Monday! Yay, me! I think. There are still all kinds of things to do around Our Humble O’Bode before the snow flies, but I don’t know how many of them will get done in Read.
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Nice Pants
There’s just no way to buy pants that doesn’t make it an unpleasant experience, and I can’t figure out why. It drives me crazy because there’s not a lot to figure out. You go to the store, you find the pants, you try on the pants, you buy the pants. There shouldn’t be anything difficult Read.
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Employable after all
Yesterday I got the phone call I’ve been hoping for: A manager at the Department of Regulation and Licensing called to offer me the job I applied for in her section. When I interviewed for it a week and a half ago she told me they’d make a decision some time this week, so I’ve Read.
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Honeydew
Day after Labor Day, back to the grindstone. Oh, wait. I’m still on seven-day weekends. Never mind. Or not. I’ve still got some yard work to do before the snow flies, and from the way the weather’s been acting that’s probably going to be at about noon on Thursday. I’ve pledged that I will finish Read.
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Interview!
Went to my first job interview since I started my adventures in unemployment. Aced it. They want me. I’m hired. I start tomorrow morning. Kidding. It was an interview for a state job; the state doesn’t work that fast. But I wasn’t kidding about how well the interview went, at least from my point of Read.
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Tried, Tested & True
I totally aced the tests I took yesterday at Job Center of Wisconsin. The counselors I was required to see there if I wanted to continue to receive unemployment benefits, and I really do so long as I’m unemployed, strongly suggested that I should take a series of tests, called Work Keys, to receive a Read.
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Indoors
I totally chickened out today. When I stepped out with My Darling B to the car this morning we could both tell it was going to be another day hot and humid enough to boil the most hale and hearty person until he’s limp and stinky as spaghetti with a double helping of garlic pesto, Read.
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Timeline
Eleanor Roosevelt used to write a daily newspaper column called My Day. I’ve read the ones that were considered interesting enough to compile and print in a book (imaginatively titled My Day) and they’re about what you’d get if you went to any random blog, adjusting for the fact that Eleanor had a finger in Read.
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Only a Test
I had to go to a class yesterday morning to learn how not to be unemployed. Now that I know, I can get to work on that right away. In one of those letters “requesting and requiring” my presence, Job Center of Wisconsin asked me to attend a meeting of the newly-unemployed at their classrooms Read.
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