Since I lost my job I couldn't even bring myself to LOOK for a job. Kinda went into turtle mode or ostrich.

I work(ed) in Title Insurance and finding a job right now is going to be near impossible. My regular office skills are lax since I haven't done JUST office work in 7 years.

A friend of mine is going back to school on a grant for displaced workers or something. I checked out the school SHE is going to and nothing intrigues me, but I have to do SOMETHING so I'm planning on going to orientation today, but before they'll let me do that I had to register my resume with Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance and I did THAT. Tweaked my resume and got it up there.

Also going to begin applying AGAIN for jobs with the county. I don't know why I bother...I get like 98 on the damn test and I have YET to get a call from any of the zillion lists I've been on. But I'll do it because they've got good bennies (crummy salary) and it's easy to prove to unemployment that I applied.

So I MOVED today. I just feel like it's for nothing.

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Outmatched, Outclassed, Mentally Incompetent and Insecure Dime a Dozen Forum Attention Hag Extraordinaire

YMI,
It is so very difficult to get motivated when you are unemployed, i know been there, and with the recession may be there again soon!
But, that said you have managed to get started and that is a really positive step.Be strong, and just keep at it. Last time i lost my job, i kept plugging away at agencies and adverts anything, and then after weeks of nothing i was offered 5 jobs in oneday!!!!!
You KNOW you are more than capable of doing whatever you want, and someone is going to see that in you as well, and i hope very soon.
Chin up,
Big Hugs from over the pond
x

As hard as it is to get motivated at times, it is the ONLY thing that will get you where you want to be. Law of attraction says you will get what you seek, you will be ok. As crazy as it may seem to some i often give thanks for things yet to be, knowing all will be as it should be. Like you know sometimes what we think is a disaster turns out to be the best thing that could of happened. You know this is my wish for you YMIH.

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The last of all freedoms is the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
G. W. Allport.

Listen mate, I have been there. It's an awful feeling. The first couple of weeks are kind of cool, it's like being on holidays from work. Then it hits you.
I found it awfully hard to get motivated to even have a shower.

I went through about 3 weeks of that really dark period, but my friends and family and boyfriend dragged me out of it. One friend insisted I had to get dressed up to meet him for coffee as he wasn't sitting in a cafe with me in a track suit and no makeup (this was for my own good, I was a hairdresser and LOVE getting dressed up!!)

I applied to go to a trade college and do hair and beauty, I got in!

So now I am the busiest and happiest I have been in years. Getting let go from my job turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

So it's ok to have a couple of days of pajama days where all you do is eat crap, but if it turns into a couple of weeks you know you have to do something about it.

I hope you get something soon xx

Thanks Patsy.

It's so funny to hear non-American expressions. Track suit. If you didn't have a location listed, I'd still know you weren't local, lol.

Well today I actually started LOOKING at jobs. Forget my field because that's not happening. Office and clerical within 25 miles of me on either Monster.com or Careerbuilder.com - MAJOR sites had 262 jobs posted in the last 30 days. Are you kidding me? Like 2500 TOTAL for ANYTHING in the last 30 days.

I can probably get funded to go to a school to get some new skills, but unemployment won't cover my rent - well it WILL but NOTHING else. Which has me considering moving back North and such, but I don't even know who would have the space. I have one friend who has his mother's house all to himself, but the family is getting ready to sell it and my sis could probably put me up in her basement, but she's got 3 kids and 2 dogs and I would come with a teenager and 2 dogs in tow.

I am so sick of listening to myself, but truth be told the forum gives me an opportunity to vent. I haven't really let on how dire my situation is to the people that are closest to me. How freaking SCARED I am.

And to make ANY move would mean pulling my son out of his senior year in High School. How awful is THAT?

Funny thing is I actually don't feel as bad as I did a week or so ago. I think it's because my dr. upped my medication. Ahhhhh better living through pharmaceuticals.

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Outmatched, Outclassed, Mentally Incompetent and Insecure Dime a Dozen Forum Attention Hag Extraordinaire

I am with ya there, i worked for a mortgage company myself, been laid off a while and etc etc, try the No Worker Left Behind...you can get them to pay for some schooling , but I myself still have to pay rent so goign to school full time won't due me any good when I cant pay my bills..LOL...
good luck..

Sorry YM, heck of a time to be out of work as if any time is a fun time for that. Holidays are here to boot for you.

Hope you and your son take the four day Holiday and enjoy, think postive to things will get better soon.

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