No. There is no deluxe apartment in the sky. I am just happy to keep my studio and gaze at my new shelf. It really is a lovely work of construction. I can’t stop staring at it. It’s becoming a problem.
So I’ve been hinting at some exciting news and what I have been putting off posting is the fact that I’ve accepted a full time position. Ack! Yes. It’s true. A full time job that I start next week and I am very excited about it. It still doesn’t feel real and I keep waiting to wake up in Sutro Baths with Monopoly money, fuzzy slippers and a robe. I guess I’ll have to wait until my first day of work next week to see what happens. If I don’t show up online some one please check the 38L to see if I’m trying to pay in Parker Brothers crisp white bills.
I’ve read the sojourns of other bloggers as they talk about their foray back into the world of schedules, buses, daily showers and feelings of insecurity. What happens when the cool unemployed kids get jobs? First their fashionable tote bag gets discontinued and second they stop watching Reality Bites.
But of course, with this shift in employment status comes a shift in psyche. That’s not to say I won’t carry with me the lessons I have learned. Some things, like being really really cheap, will probably stay with me forever. Unemploymentality
I know there are a million questions out there but to answer the biggest question, yes, I’m still going to watch Reality Bites. I mean for the sheer fact that I really want to start wearing plaid more and I love baby doll dresses plus it is how the ocean and I talk out our issues. The ocean plays a very respectable Ethan Hawk. You should see it play a guitar. Awesome.
My visit in the wardrobe of unemployment has changed my life markedly. From being more confident to appreciating the small things in life that I can do for family and friends, I’ve been able to grow and carve out the me that I should have been years ago. This blog especially has given me opportunities I never imagined, and a voice I didn’t know I had. In that regard I am going to keep the blog and continue writing. I am not sure what the direction it will be — former unemployed girl talks employment?
So I may not be that unemployed girl who has a blog about unemployment and only talks about unemployment and her blog on being laid off, but I will be that girl who writes about what it’s like to find the keys to wardrobe and re-enter war ravaged Europe, or in my case the recession. Now to see if there can be a real comeback for the Coreys. That would make this all the better.
Update EDD: Today I got a call about my incorrect unemployment benefit forms. As an FYI the e-mail was the solid way to go. I got the problem solved just in time for me to start a new job. As mad as I wanted to be at EDD, they put the nicest and sweetest sounding person on the phone who helped me out immensely. They are a sneaky bunch though. The number didn’t show up on my caller ID so I have no way to get a hold of them again. Anger is gone and the check is in the mail.
