Will Work for Food

The good news is that in my disagreement with Dannon over whether or not I should have been trying to find any job possible right away versus holding out for a "good" job and trust that the unemployment was going to come in, I seem to have been proven right! Woo Hoo!! The bad news is that this means the unemployment did not, in fact, get approved and there are no "good" jobs to be found. For that matter, if the last three weeks are any indication, there are also no decent jobs around either.

I've tweaked my resumes. I say "resumes" becuase I have four of them, playing up and down my various qualifications for the different types of jobs I'm looking for. I have had only one interview in three weeks and I'm starting to get a little depressed about the whole thing. When I started to really pour on the steam after the unemployment decision came in, I was pleasantly surprised to find how many jobs were listed. There were certainly more than when Dannon had started looking. But after three weeks of no real leads I'm starting to wonder what the problem is.

My guess is that I'm looking for entry level positions with Mid-Career Manager qualifications. Even on the resume versions where I've tried to downplay my experience I'm afraid that I come across like someone who knows a little too well what she's talking about. Maybe there's too much jargon for me to pass myself as a generic customer service rep. I tried to scrub for things that make me sound overqualified, but I end up having to make myself sound dumb so I put it all back.

I've probably applied for about 125 jobs in the past few weeks. All it takes is for just one of them to break my way.

In the mean time, I'm getting an ungodly amount of spam wanting me to sell Life Insurnace. There are no words for how terrible I would be at that job. But all the things I'd be good at? No bites at all.