Secret diary

[amyww]

I seem to be diving back into writing many different things. Nothing focused, of course. I started a travel blog at www.thedeliberatetraveler.com. That's more straight writing. Then there is the more essay type personal writing at Part of the Solution, and the photography at Worth 365,000 Words. It's supposed to be a photo a day. In my mind it was

Comments

Wow

[1_bad_idea]

Your life sounds so very similar to mine in so many ways. I have to agree that call-center work is absolutely worse than anyone who has never done it can imagine. What's worse, once you've done it that's all anyone ever thinks you are qualified for. I know that I'm a stranger, but I hope you have a better evening knowing someone understands.

Re: Wow

[amyww]

I do feel better knowing! I do feel alone in this sometimes, so it helps to know I'm not.

And Call Center sucks. The worst of it is convincing mySELF that this isn't all I can do. Do it long enough and you start to believe it.

Thanks.

[missy_bender]

You have really cool interests, amazing qualifications and write really well. I don't understand a place where people aren't falling over themselves to give you a job. I live in Australia and have to start looking for work in the next week or two. I hope the ludicrous situation you find yourself in is only due to your location, I hope I don't need to be nearly as cool as you to get another job.

But your procrastination, your disbelief that call centre is all you're seen as suited to, and your struggle to keep your brain active in that circumstance all speak to me.

I wish you all the best and hope that if you haven't found an interesting role in the time since you posted this, that you will very soon.

[amyww]

Thank you so much! It did really make my day to see your comment.

I think the situation is (was) partly due to my situation. I just got an amazing job with the government that I can't really go into on this public forum, but it does require me to leave my kids for months at a time. So amazing, and a little hard. But mostly amazing. The kids are getting older and they can come with me.

It is very hard to keep your brain active and your self-esteem up after months and months and *months* of un- or underemployment. It really helps, for me anyway, to know that it wasn't just me.

Good luck with your job search! My job will take me all over the world and Australia is one location the kids are pulling for pretty strongly!