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Are You Looking For a Job? Well I am!!! What a frustrating process. I haven?t had to look for a job since 1999 and boy how things have changed. I keep sending out tons of resumes and job applications to get no response.
Back in the day people sent out letters or even emails letting you know you didn?t get the job but now with so many people applying they don?t have time to communicate that to people. So you sit in wonder, are they slow at looking through the resumes, did they hire someone, did they hire from within and just had to post the position on line, WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY RESUME!!!
Then there is that issue of qualifications.
On one hand I am over qualified for a lot of stuff that I would be very good at. Yes I climbed the corporate ladder within a company that I worked at for almost 13 years. YEAH for me!!! But now that I am no longer with that company my experience is not as valuable. I get it. I have to start at the bottom again. I get it. I have no problem starting at the bottom (as long as the pay is decent). However, the employer?s still won?t hire me because they are afraid I will keep looking for another job. (see more on this below)
On another hand I may be qualified except for that one requirement they are looking for. Such as ?Must have XXX Program experience? or ?Must have experience with Our Companies database?. There are so many different database programs and special programs that companies use that unless you worked for a company that used that specific program, you don?t have experience. I have even looked online to get training on a few of the ones I see a lot of, but I have to work for a company to get the training.
Here?s the thing that I can?t really explain on a resume! If I can make decent enough money to assist in the finances of my family and I can work in a place where the people are nice and it is a good environment, I won?t leave!!!!!! I don?t need all the stress that comes with a high paying ?what I am really qualified for- job!!! But I still have the energy to do this type of job and do it well. But after 10 years of raising a daughter and 10 years of being the primary bread winner, I think less stress and slowing down is OK.
I already proved myself! Now I just have to pay some of the bills.
Do You Like Vampires? It is amazing all the Vampire shows/movies out and about. It is also amazing to some how popular they are. I personally love vampire stuff and have since I was a little girl. I also love Halloween. Now as I have gotten older I have encountered people I meet and that despise Halloween/Vampires. I understand the reason a little bit but I never could help myself from liking these things.
I spent a lot of time thinking about why I liked them and I realized it was because of a friend of mine that liked them and introduced me to the likes of them. She was 15 years older than me and was sort of like a surrogate big sister/mom. We spent a lot of time together during my informative years.
I have now passed on this fondness to my daughter. But of course all the popular stuff out about Vampires has helped some. We watch the Twilight Movies, Vampire Diaries, The Gates (new last night) and all the movies on Disney during October.
I am not into death and the dark side as a belief but I find these shows entertaining. I guess mostly because they are so unreal. Many other shows that we watch to escape into fantasy land to relax have some truth to them. However, I know and my daughter knows that Vampires are not real. I guess this makes it a little more fun and exciting.
There is this excitement about the Twilight Movies reminding us of teenage love, but it won?t happen the same way. I find it a little easy to escape with my daughter because I know she knows this will never happen. Unlike some other shows that may give her the wrong idea.
So we will continue our love of Vampires and Halloween but we will always remember they are make believe!!!! .
My life has become beyond crazy hectic in the last few weeks. In addition to my job as mommy to my 2 adorable children and Director of Human Resources with The Mommies Network, I decided in January that I will finally attempt to finish my degree again. I signed up for a short session Western Literature class thinking it should be fairly easy. So.not.the.case. I have done more writing for this class than any other class I've ever taken. It is insane! On top of that, I had the perfect work-at-home job fall in my lap two weeks ago (my TMN gig is volunteer, so no $$). Of course, I took it. Now I feel like the juggler in the circus. I'm front and center, balls in the air and I feel like everyone is watching waiting on one of them to drop.
The pressure!
It's a balancing act. Every day. The weight is constantly shifting from one ball to the other, throwing off my balance. Maybe I should spend more time on the Wii. The balance games are awesome. I should really be getting more exercise anyway.
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