I’m coming up on nearly six months of being unemployed, and boy howdy does my bank account reflect it. I have a phone screen tomorrow with a hiring manager, and while the agency the offer is through gives me SERIOUS heebie jeebies, I will take it if it’s offered. And I’m working on being glad for it. It’s far, far below the rate I was looking for when I began this job search, but after this many (endless seeming) weeks of nothing, I need to take it if it’s offered. And be glad for it.
OK, so maybe I’m not doing graceful acceptance all that well, but I’m working on it.
So, good vibes requested and I hope I land that job tomorrow!
In knitting news…there isn’t really any knitting news. It’s been so very cold in the apartment that I haven’t much felt like knitting, and I’m keeping the heat down as far as possible and still have most of the feeling in my hands. I do, during the daylight hours when it’s warmer in here, work a few rows on this “Harlot’s One Row Scarf” in Ultra Alpaca, but with only a few rows done here and there it’s very slow going.
I wound four of many warps with sock yarns the other day, and hope to get to work on those as soon as I can on the rigid heddle loom.
Not much else to report from here. Oh, and if you have any good vibes to spare, send them my way for dealing with the Unemployment Office? I faxed thirteen pages of documentation there today in an effort to get qualified, but it’ll be four to six weeks until I hear back. In the meantime, with no income, it looks like that Sundara may in fact be pried from my cold, if not dead, hands. :/
It’s easy to fall prey to massive amounts of despair right now. Each day it’s harder to get out of bed, slog through all the job postings, and try to dredge up even a small morsel of hope to have with what remains of the coffee stash for breakfast. I’m trying not to look at the big picture, because that way lies paralyzing fear, but instead to think of the next 15 min, the next half hour. And once that’s passed to do it again, and again, and make it through the day.
So. Good vibes requested. This is the only thing that’s come up in over a month now, so I could really use the help. And I thank you for any energy you can send my way.