Month Three...

Dec 02, 2009

...SUCKED. 

Found out middle of October that due to cost cutting my position was being eliminated after twenty two years in various positions.  Sixty other people I work with were in the same boat as me I won't take it personal.

But even so I managed to hang in there and lost 11 pounds total in Late October/Early November.  Not as much as I would like but I will confess to more cafe mochas and grazing that I should have done and the sleeve still did the job.

I have applied for seven positions so far:
 
Two positions passed screening and hiring manager declined to interview
Two positions wrong degree even though I have a world of experience
One  was a Sales Customer Relationship Management software DBA at an insurance company that has been open since January. (the  insurance company that approved my VSG)

One waiting on second screening DBA for the first college I graduated from in Accounting would love it because ot offers free tuition as a perk but not a perfect fit to my skills.

Today I applied with a competitor of the company that I worked (they have 11 official competitors)  for that is an excellent fit to my skills, not counting chickens before they hatch but I would have forfeit my severance pay if I am selected.

Two others recruiter called me to ask me to interview with clients for contract positions, they must have been on drugs when they read my resume because they were not even close with my skills.

Ah and yes, every insurance sales company says my resume is PERFECT.  Not even touching that one.

I still have 18 weeks of pay coming through late March 2010, plenty of time to look.  November was a month to mostly vegged, play computer games and feel sorry for myself. Now I need to get the but in gear and look a little harder.

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