I'm Just Sayin'...©

Almost immediately after posting yesterday, I got the email...
Job offer! Excellent!! Texted everyone in my phone that now I can officially complain about Monday mornings, wear business casual and sit on a train every day. I get one week to pull my finger out and take care of some of the outstanding things I have put off while looking for work. Now I can actually go out on all day excursions witout feeling guilty about not checking the job sites and my email.

Tomorrow is The Husband™'s birthday, so I will make sure to get his gift and suprise him at lunchtime for sushi. He will love that. Then head off for some shopping for clothes for me ( need to make sure I am all stylized for the new job) and meet up with darling man to head to the pub for birthday drinks with the gang.

Ah... the hangover from copious ammounts of champagne and wine last night is taking its toll nicely today. Shame I feel so rotten, its a gorgeous day out.
Oh wellz.

Great interview yesterday. I left with a nice feeling about the place. It was very informal, very relaxed and sounds like a decent place to work. Now its just all about the waiting... 5 of us got selected out of abotu 150. I will be pleased as punch if I get it. If I find out by Thursday, that would be a great birthday present for The Husband™

Hurry and decide. Hurry and decide.
Hurry and decide. Hurry and decide.
Hurry and decide. Hurry and decide.
Hurry and decide. Hurry and decide.
Hurry and decide. Hurry and decide.

And in other news... I am going to enter another photography contest. It rocked that I got one of mine published in the local borough, so let's see if this begins something new for me. Stel said that I should move into photography as a side project as well for the cash. Not sure if I want to do weddings and such, but I suppose its a start.

Lastly, and not sure if you need to know this, but my favorite trousers are getting a bit of a split in the rear seam.

Oh dear!

Before I really need to leave the house to get some fresh air. I have been commanded by my dearest love to go out, pick blackberries, take pictures and stop crying. Okay. I can do that.

I hope to hear back from 1 of the 3 recruiters that called yesterday saying they would put me forth for some jobs. 2 of which are contract, and I hate contract. That means that in 9 months time I will be back here doing the same damn thing again. w00t.

The emotional rollercoaster is getting a little old now. Calls from recruiters and others that get you all hyped about a job and then you get nothing. I wonder if they realise just how shitty people feel when they do that.

meh. Gotta do something positive today.

3 months. Thats how long I have been out of work now and its not getting any better. I have not put on the CV that I worked in a retail store because that will make it look sh!t. So in essence, it looks like for 8 months I have been out of work. Sure, I say that I have taken some time off to relax a bit and have some "Me Time". But this is getting ridiculous.

I cant get my foot in hardly anywhere and recruiters are a fcking joke. Absolutely crap. I dont know how they stay in business when it seems like nobody is getting work out of them. But then again, how the hell are people getting work?? I have all the skills, I have an education, I have experience, but those damn emails that come back saying that I am not qualified to be even a receptionist... well, how demeaning is this becoming?

Spenging almost all day trolling the internet for employers, filling out applications, writing and re-writing cover letters on a daily basis is really killing my psyche. I cant seem to do this anymore. Recruiters make me feel stupid with their insensitive emails, and the no response to the long essay applications I spent hours on, well... I feel so gaddamn useless at this point.

I'm broke and my husbands pay packet is gone after paying the bills (except for Council Tax... that is now overdue as well as the electricity because I have nothing left in my account.) All we have to eat now is some frozen veggies, half a bag of rice, some flour to make bread and condiments in the fridge. That is what we have until the end of the month.

Please... someone, give me a chance.