Searching...

I am still job searching, although I've realized that being re-unemployed does have its benefits. I've been getting lots of household projects done, and spent the necessary but annoying amount of time watering the new plants in the yard. It's been insanely hot here (around 98 today, with a ridiculous amount of humidity), and the plants have needed watering almost daily. Yard-keeping is not something that comes naturally to me.

The job searching has been going okay, though not very fruitful yet. I've heard back from some social service agencies, but most just want part-time people. I went to an information session at Citibank today, and realized there is no way I could do phone sales for them. The videos we saw of their retention specialists (people who try to get you to keep your card when you call to cancel), just made it look like a despicable job. It was worth checking out though. I did have to do some math test, but thankfully at the end I got a letter saying I am qualified to work there. I probably failed the math test, but I'm sure I passed the "following directions" and "Filling out forms correctly" tests.

I also handed in a few applications at other places that look interesting...nobody actually had positions though. I arrived too late at a temp. agency to fill out an app., so that's tomorrow morning's activity, along with attaching house numbers and a new mailbox.

There is one position that sounds promising, but it's a ways out yet. It came up in a very roundabout way, when I was already "working" at the online teaching job. Someone in my mom's church had a daughter who was going to be running a government agency here, and looking for people to hire. Long story short I met her on Sunday, and she said she thought I was smart and she just knows we'll work together. That sounds great, but I'd like to have it in writing before I count on it. Until then? Answer phones and maybe substitute teaching.