Heavy Sigh

[charliesmum]

Well, it is day two of my unemployment, and I am starting in on the 'feeling very depressed' stage of this particular saga. I spent most of yesterday sending out resumes online, with Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com and, while logically I know that they get hundreds of resumes a day and it will take awhile, I am feeling very discouraged that no one has responded at all. Then I look at the jobs I'm 'qualified for' and I don't want to do them, and the jobs I want to do I'm not qualified for. I'm worried sick about money, and I'm feeling very low.

Thus ends the self-pitying part of this entry.

It snowed a bit yesterday, enough to make everything look pretty and give the world that lovely Dickensian pre-Christmas feeling and to make Charlie happy very happy:



I've created a journal where I am going to put up my mystery story, should anyone want to read it. It is called my_mysterystory (original, no?). I've only got the first two chapters up so far, but I hope to get the rest of it up soon.

I think I may take a break from the computer today and just clean the house and pretend I can afford to be a housewife.

Comments

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I'll take all the help I can get. What I'd like is something that involves writing, what I can get is probably some sort of administrative assistant job. I'd also like to stay in New Jersey and not have to go back into Philadelphia, if I can help it.

Thanks for the offer. Any advice you can give will be very welcome.

[eigenkumquat.livejournal.com]

I see that thesibylqueen recommended two of my favorite job search sites - Idealist.org and Craiglist.org. I'd also recommend looking at colleges and universities. They tend to be among the biggest employers in a given location, and they often have very nice benefits. Princeton and Rutgers come to mind as two of the more famous institutions in New Jersey, but you may want to check the smaller colleges, too. Also, The New Jersey Higher Education Recruitment Consortium looks promising.

I'll keep looking around.