The Job Hunt
I am drowning. I never felt this broke before. It feels like being poor. (Being broke is temporal, being poor is eternal)
I have never worried to much when my finances are low; always a solution present itself. I may find a few odd jobs here and there and I am back a float. Not this time. I am really struggling this time and nothing has come my way. The different debts I have to pay, from 2 CC (That I haven’t used in years) 2 student loans (Which I am about to default), a large phone bill (I could not pay last month’s so now I am pilled up) rent (They made a mistake on my favor, but that error only buys me a couple of weeks) and other incidentals (Who need to eat?) and on top of that, my building has a dbed bug problem, so the little money I can scavenger has gone to the exterminator.
I am afraid to leave my house. The crappy job I have at Restaurant Associates is nothing, they are in low season, meaning that I may get 2 or 3 jobs a week at most.
All this reclusion and stress has given me motivation to get out of this rat race for good. I have the power to help myself, I am just being too lazy and scare to do it.
I have spend the last few days putting together my online portfolio, I have not done that in a LONG time. I also updated my resume and linkedin account. I have update my job search profiles in several job searching sites and started to apply to some jobs.
I have my first (phone) interview last Friday. Reader’s Digest is looking for an Associate Art Director.
For the first time since I graduated, I feel confident of my skills. I have always being afraid of looking for a real job, thinking that I am not good enough, or experienced enough, but instead of looking for somewhere to start gaining experience, I refuged in other dead-end jobs. I needed some self-steam.
I have set myself the goal of getting a job in my field before the woods turn colors.
