So, if you've read my previous posts, you know I'm currently out of work and looking for a job. It's amazing how flooded the applicant pool is right now! I do administrative work. It's a field that transcends company type... every company needs someone to handle their bookkeeping, manage their files, etc. I choose this field because it is something I am very good at and it's usually pretty easy to find a job to pay the bills... single motherhood ain't cheap! So when I got laid off from the civil engineering firm I was working at, I thought, "No problem! I'll be back to work in a couple months at most." That was 8 months ago and I'm still barely getting a hit on my resume.
It's not that I'm not trying. I send out over a hundred resumes a week for jobs I know I'm qualified or over-qualified for, and still, the most I usually receive is an automated email stating they might not get back to me because they have too many applicants to address each individual.
Enter that wonderful stimilus the government put out to increase jobs. The money is earmarked for municipal improvements though. You would think that would mean municipalities would be hiring more administrative professionals to handle all that paperwork, but no... they aren't. What is happening is they are giving their already tired, cranky, overworked and underpaid employees a huge additional bunch of stuff to do and all these wonderful projects that are supposed to move our economy forward are backlogged and stuck behind a huge wall of red tape! When a job finally does get out there... it's the people who are still left working that are raking in the money. Comapnies are too scared of not getting another job afterwards to hire new employees or rehire those who are laid off. So those who are working are complaining about their horrid workload and those of us not working are screaming, "I'll help you!" to the brick wall that is corporate America. It's extremely frustrating!!!
I don't like being on unemployment. I want a job, an income, something to do each day! The stimulus package in my opinion didn't do a darn thing to help those of us out there looking for work. Things are still as bleak as they were last year.
But in having to get creative, my job search has lead me to find some pretty interesting things out there. For example, there is actually someone willing to pay me $50 an hour to take photos of my feet (nothing sexual involved apparently)! Now, I would guess this person has a fetish since the ad said the photos were for personal use, but do I care? I walk around with exposed feet pretty often and never thought about who might be secretly photographing them. Then there's the monthly party that apparently takes place in my own neighborhood that is looking for girls to walk around naked each time... at $200 an hour! No thanks... but I am very curious as to which of my neighbors is doing this!! Then there's the one-time job I took teaching a class on how to use Craigslist at the local library. Could this turn into something or lead me to a new connection... we'll have to see.
So you see, my job search hasn't been boring... it's just been unproductive. I guess I just needed to vent after yet another long day of searching without luck. If any of you readers know of something I might be qualified for, please let me know... or I may be searching forever!
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