I still consider myself recently laid off although I’m encroaching on week seven. With job applications, screening calls and interviews the time has gone by too fast. I look back and still I am frustrated with my lack of progress. Why am I not speaking fluent French or have mastered PHP yet? This is still [...]
Posts Tagged ‘layoffs’
One month unemployment anniversary
Looking back on my first month of unemployment and the lessons I’ve learned.
Vacation all I ever wanted
Heading to sunny LA for the long weekend.
Socialite day: gym passes and yoga classes
Finding a balance between the work-me and the social-me.
Dealing with rejection
Getting rejected — the art of moving on.
Tactic one: role playing “I have a job”
Using make believe techniques to get me through the work week.
The long months ahead
Current estimates put finding a new job at six months.
Fact: unemployment is an airborne disease
CDC to announce unemployment as the newest airborne disease.
New perspective on weekends
Weekends for the laid off are just more time to think about being unemployed.