I’ve got an interview tomorrow (first in months), with a temp agency that handles creative types (writer/editors like myself, graphics people, etc.). I see no reason they won’t add me to their rolls, I’m just hoping I get some assignments out of it.
Good luck, twicks.
Good luck tomorrow! I hope this brings about more work.
Funny you should ask. How thoughtful of you. (not a snark; I’ve been curious of everybody myself…)
Congrats, Bibliocat, on your benefits. It took me almost 4 months to “prove” I was qualified. Trying to contact anybody at DLLR is a maze from hell.
Good luck, Twicks. I hope it goes well.
This past Friday I received the letter from the Unemployment Agency that I have exhausted my benefits. YIKES! :eek: I’m glad that I have been trying to save as much as I could this whole time. Just in time for Xmas. Looks like we’re going to have to cancel it this year.
This means that I have been officially unemployed for 33 weeks! With only one real serious interview to show for it. 
There is a bit of good news: Because Obama signed some recent law, I do have the option to attempt to qualify for an additional period of benefits. Oh, you *bet *I’m going to attempt.
The real problems are my health issues. Got lots of ‘em. Some genetics, some lifestyle-based, but I’ve been trying to do better where I can. And I can’t afford the insurance, COBRA, or anything else. I can’t even go the Wal-Mart route because my doctors and I were still juggling Rxs around to find something that wouldn’t kill me, so I don’t have a definite script regimen. (I had a very bad reaction to one script and spent a day in the ER.) Do you *think *I’m paying attention to the Health Care debate?
I need insurance coverage. I would like a job. I miss having something to do all day rather than look for a job.
And then there’s all the issues we’re having within our social circle, but that’s not relevant here.
::sigh:: at least now I have football. And the NHL starts up in a few weeks. Life goes on. Hang in there, everybody!
Had an interview the other day for what should technically be a perfect fit for my background. Big-4 accounting/consulting firm looking for manager with about 5 years previous big-4 experience in my exact field at my exact level and exect set of skills. Got along well with all 4 interviewers, to the point one of the directors wanted to take me out for a lunch that wasn’t on the original schedule (HR said no for cost reasons). I even have a friend and former coworker in the group who I am still very friendly with. Even my salary requirements fall within the mean for a manager in their practice.
So if I don’t get this job which really would be a perfect fit for both parties, I’d have to wonder what actual job I would be able to get.
Things are looking positive for me: my workplace are shortly going to be looking for a helpdesk team leader.
I got a job today!!!
Yay!
My interview with the temp agency went well, as expected; she has one job in particular in mind for me, coming up in a couple of weeks, and seems optimistic about finding other assignments as well.
Income is good.
Hooray PeacePlease. Wishing you luck and joy in your new career.
And luck wishes going out to all.
Uncle Brother Walker, thank you for the kind words. I feel a special kinship toward the people in this thread. Before I got the job I have now, I was unemployed and searching for over a year. I still remember how that felt, and hate that others are going through it. I hope your situation straightens out soon. Though you are right… football and hockey make everything more bearable. 
Yay for Peace!
VivaLostWages, I think you’re really smart to get some training.
Twickster, Quartz and msmith, I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you!
Wishing everyone good luck.
Yay for **PeacePlease **and twicks!
Thanks all!!! It’s not the greatest job and the pay is almost half of what I was making but I cannot tell you the weight that has lifted off my shoulders knowing that I will soon be making my OWN money again. I still have major financial issues to deal with (bankruptcy and foreclosure) but I have been legitimately unemployed full-fucking-time since November of last year. I simply cannot believe that just about a year of my life has been a depressing, non-motivational, demoralizing, long-ass year.
I haven’t posted here religiously but one of the first things I thought of was “Yay, I get to tell the SDMB job seekers that there is a light, albeit a dimmer one, at the end of the line.”
Good luck to each and every last one of you and I hope never to have to participate in this thread again! (Nah…I’ll be back to give y’all updates and see how everyone else in this hellish situation is managing.)
One piece of advice…I could not have gotten through this without two things: 1) my parents (supremely wonderful people) and 2) government assistance. Please, please seek out those two areas if you haven’t already and you’re having money problems. Just the “food stamps” alone were such a HUGE help.
Congrats! Glad to hear at least someone out there is having luck…
As of October 16, I may be joining you all. My boss was kind enough to give me the notice that my contact will be cancelled effective that date. I went through this last fall; not looking forward to it again.
Well, I’ve got a job interview tomorrow. It’s for my old job, basically, as a biomedical technician. It wasn’t a great job, and on more than one occasion I said it was sucking my soul, but I do think things would go better this time around.
For starters, my current job is much worse, for less pay, and shittier benefits. Secondly, I wouldn’t be in the same hospital or live in the same town as before, which contributed a lot to how I felt about my job. They asked too much of me too soon (I went from a trainee position to essentially being in charge of an entire hospital’s medical device inventory in less than six months. Not cool.) And I knew almost no one in the town I lived in, which was a pretty crappy town anyway, so that didn’t help.
But we’ll see how this goes…I’m fairly certain the job is already mine. I mean…the job was posted late last week, I sent my application in on Tuesday, got a call today for an interview tomorrow, and the guy I talked to was very happy that he saw my name and wants to get the position filled sooner rather than later.
At this point I just need something related to my field, with health insurance and a steady income, and this job has all that, so time to suck up my pride and go back in there.
You have no idea how many of us are green with envy. Turns out you don’t need a soul – you need a salary and benefits.
Seriously – hope you get it, hope it works out okay, and hope you find something more fulfilling when the economy improves a little.
As some may have read in my gun permit thread, I recently got a job after having no steady employment for a year… as a security guard at the unemployment office. Is this a good omen for the economy or a bad one? 
I think it depends on whether or not you need to use that gun at work.
Hooray! Wishing you luck and joy in your new job!
And I’m heading back to the unemployment line. I’ve been given 2 weeks notice.