Category: adventures in unemployment
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rezooMAY
Hot Tip O’ The Day: Mondays aren’t so bad when you don’t have to spend them in the office! One of the bennies that came with the elimination of my job, if that’s not a self-destructive contradiction, was that management hired a placement agency to help those of us who were about to be newly Read.
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job hunting
The City of Madison is advertising a vacancy for the position of Parking Enforcement Officer. A Parking Enforcement Officer makes more than I do in my present position. He makes more than a police officer. Probably takes way more shit than either of us. I’m so tempted to apply for the job. Obviously this isn’t Read.
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pop-up
Banging away at my office keyboard yesterday morning, I was distracted by an Outlook pop-up reminding me I had a very important meeting that afternoon. I’ve got Outlook set up to give me these things all the time. I can hardly remember to feed myself without them. Trouble is, they’re only as good as the Read.
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testing testing
I drove into town early this morning to take the state worker’s office support exam. I hear the state still has a hiring freeze, but there are an awful lot of vacancies appearing on the state’s employment web site. Assuming they’re not putting them there just to keep somebody busy, I’ve been applying for as Read.
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getting ready
I’ve spent more than a couple of hours updating my resume today. I love to write, but updating a resume is only slightly less agonizing than clawing out my eyes with my own fingernails. I don’t know why it should be like that, but it is. I’d guess it’s some sort of physical law and Read.
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adventures in unemployment
Happy Monday! My job’s been eliminated! How’s your day been? Not sure what to add to that. Most people have been knocked around one way or another by our current economic climate change, so it’s not like you haven’t heard this one before, or that it’s much of a surprise, really. And I’m fortunate, sort Read.
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