Bum bum bum
I can't believe it's been 3 weeks. I feel like I've applied for a hundred places, encountered a hundred lazy, unsympathetic managers, and stared at the phone for hundreds of hours.
I've even applied for Wendy's. That's how desperate I am. Every day that passes and no one calls, I'm more convinced that there's some secret blotch on my record that they're seeing and that I don't know about.
Maybe if I didn't mind being a pizza delivery driver, I'd have a job already. But there's been a lot of stories about pizza delivery guys getting robbed/shot lately and my truck really isn't in the best of shape (plus, I think you have to have some form of car insurance for that).
Not to mention the registration is about to run out on my truck on the 21st and I'm not sure how I'm going to renew that. When I had my Aspire, I let it lapse and drove across the country with it expired. Even stayed in town for weeks before anyone actually pulled me over on it, and I talked my way out of that one. ;) I just don't really think I'm that lucky anymore. And if there's one thing I really don't need now is for my truck to get impounded because I'd probably lose it before I could make enough money to get it out.
I really thought I'd have a job by now. Or at least some sort of formal interview, because that's where I really shine. I don't know what else I can do. I broke down and applied for food stamps, hoping to get it set up by Xmas. I've bought my brother one xmas gift, $20 of the $50 I'm supposed to bring. We bought my mom's fiance a few things too, but not the whole $50.
The so-called "nice" Lasko heater we bought (http://www.livingincomfort.com/hg28729.html - though we got it for $70 at Menards) is not as powerful as you'd think. It struggles to get the living room out of the 40 degree chill it's in when we get up in the morning. At least the bedroom manages to stay in the 60's when we're ready for bed, though the heated mattress pad takes forever to get heated- I usually turn it on about two to three hours before we're ready to climb in, and though it's not warm, it's not cold ;). Thank God I found the (working) remote starter for my truck, though. The weather here has been bitter cold with sleet and a load of wind so it's been a blessing not to have to actually sit out in the truck to warm it up.
If I keep my mind off the date and not think about being jobless much, I don't get too stressed out about it, but there are a lot of times I just want to throw myself down, curl up in a ball, and cry because I don't know what else to do. It's become a difficult age where job seekers are separated from the hiring managers more and more. You go into the store to talk to them and they blow you off, pretty much saying they'll pick who they want to pick and the fact that you showed the initiative to come in to talk doesn't impress them anymore. More and more it's all on the internet, and they even put it at the end of some of the applications not to try to contact the company regarding the application.
*sigh*
Right now, I'm trying Walmart. :P Wish me luck.
I've even applied for Wendy's. That's how desperate I am. Every day that passes and no one calls, I'm more convinced that there's some secret blotch on my record that they're seeing and that I don't know about.
Maybe if I didn't mind being a pizza delivery driver, I'd have a job already. But there's been a lot of stories about pizza delivery guys getting robbed/shot lately and my truck really isn't in the best of shape (plus, I think you have to have some form of car insurance for that).
Not to mention the registration is about to run out on my truck on the 21st and I'm not sure how I'm going to renew that. When I had my Aspire, I let it lapse and drove across the country with it expired. Even stayed in town for weeks before anyone actually pulled me over on it, and I talked my way out of that one. ;) I just don't really think I'm that lucky anymore. And if there's one thing I really don't need now is for my truck to get impounded because I'd probably lose it before I could make enough money to get it out.
I really thought I'd have a job by now. Or at least some sort of formal interview, because that's where I really shine. I don't know what else I can do. I broke down and applied for food stamps, hoping to get it set up by Xmas. I've bought my brother one xmas gift, $20 of the $50 I'm supposed to bring. We bought my mom's fiance a few things too, but not the whole $50.
The so-called "nice" Lasko heater we bought (http://www.livingincomfort.com/hg28729.html - though we got it for $70 at Menards) is not as powerful as you'd think. It struggles to get the living room out of the 40 degree chill it's in when we get up in the morning. At least the bedroom manages to stay in the 60's when we're ready for bed, though the heated mattress pad takes forever to get heated- I usually turn it on about two to three hours before we're ready to climb in, and though it's not warm, it's not cold ;). Thank God I found the (working) remote starter for my truck, though. The weather here has been bitter cold with sleet and a load of wind so it's been a blessing not to have to actually sit out in the truck to warm it up.
If I keep my mind off the date and not think about being jobless much, I don't get too stressed out about it, but there are a lot of times I just want to throw myself down, curl up in a ball, and cry because I don't know what else to do. It's become a difficult age where job seekers are separated from the hiring managers more and more. You go into the store to talk to them and they blow you off, pretty much saying they'll pick who they want to pick and the fact that you showed the initiative to come in to talk doesn't impress them anymore. More and more it's all on the internet, and they even put it at the end of some of the applications not to try to contact the company regarding the application.
*sigh*
Right now, I'm trying Walmart. :P Wish me luck.