~washuchan

Up and Down, Party People.
Up and Down.

I thought I had something going there for a while, but is would seem not to be.

So once again I find myself out of work once again.

Maybe I should give Disney a go.

Well, Party People
The wait time has been partly justified. I have a job. Full time and with a construction firm. My knowledge of the whole industry, from inception to completion will soon be complete.

And I start Monday the 28th.

Full time, all the over time I could want.

Now the only thing we need to work out is the logistics of travel. My travel time to and from is one hour one way from our current abode. In a few months, my sweetie and I are thinking about moving into a newer building with central AC, but it will be further away. Fortunately, there is a train station near where we want to move and close to work. Now, I just need to get sweetie onto said train to the University in the morning and pick her up at night and everything is kewlio.

I doubt I will be as open with my current fellows as I was at tBP, but that is a small price to pay...for now.

This is getting serious.
Not only have I been out of work for the better part of four months, I have not even had any temp work for the last six weeks.
The current state of things reminds me of The Great Depression...certainly all the halmarks; no work, massive economic slowdown, bank runs (Indymac) and failures, a Republican in The White House (Compares W. Bush to Herbert Hoover 1928-1932) and no one has any ideas about how to improve things. I just hope this doesn't last 15 years like The Depression (The Great Depression actually began in 1927 when European banks began to fail, it took nearly two years for the United States to feel the effects because of our isolationist position regarding foreign affairs and did not end for the US until 1942, when we got fully invested in WWII)
FDR we need you now.

But I am still not without options. I recently reapplied to Barnes & Noble maybe try and get some hours and hopefully apply for a second job this weekend.

Still, things are not as bleak as they seem. Sweetie just got a raise to cover the discrepancies in our income levels, so we will not be homeless or without some level of minimal comfort.

Hey Party People.
When last I left, I was out of work and running on empty.
while the last two months have been bleak, they have not been devoid of some hope.
The last two weeks I have held two decent paying temp positions, I am currently at a third with another possibly on the way.
The exciting thing about my current position is-if I want it-I can stay on permanently. Only two drawbacks:
One it is working for a property management company. I have absolutely no property management experience whatsoever. I was brought on to help with the filing and answer telephones. The upper level execs have started to train me a little, but in the short time I have left there (if I don't stay) I doubt I will make much impact. Also, they are short staffed and desperately need the people, but they need folks with vastly more and different experience than I have.

Two, the logistics of travel are simply too cumbersome. Currently, my sweetie has no reliable means of transportation and has to rely on myself, a co-worker, or the minimally extant SoCal public transit system. While this was no real problem while looking for work, now that I am working, this is proving difficult. I work in Long Beach while sweetie works over forty miles away in South Orange County. If she misses her train, or her ride with co-worker, either I come and get her or she pays $60 for a one-way cab fare.
Ouch!

I have the possibility of another job in Orange County-and much closer to sweetie-but I still have to interview for it Friday afternoon. If I get it-big if- that would be wonderful because it is in the architectural/construction fields where I am more comfortable and have vastly better knowledge and skills.

The question being, do I stay with a job that is all but guaranteed and try to learn something brand new over a long period of time with a short staffed and overworked crew having to look over my shoulder, or should I return to the field I have the most experience, but never able to move beyond where I am?

Update:
When last I left you, I was considering whether to go or stay with the property management company. Events have conspired to move against me. It would seem they have located someone with the experience they need and are preparing to bring him on board ASAP. So, my time there is short.

So I guess my initial logistical problem is moot as well.

Well Party People
I am an unemployed bum living on welfare and generally lazing about.

NOT

It would seem that tBP got the drop on me and sacked me before I could quit.
"We are experiencing a downturn in the economy and need to prioritize our financial resources."

Bullshit.
"We are sacking you because we can't afford to pay your ass," is more correct.
So, I have been haunting Craigslist and Wifey's university and CareerBuilder and CalJOBS and headhunters and temp agencies looking for work.

four weeks on and all I have had was one and a half weeks covering a receptionist

yay

BTW, I do NOT ever recommend going on the dole. Nothing is more humiliating than having mail from the state sent to your old name - especially after having jumped through hoops to get it changed in the first place - and then having to jump through a million and one more hoops just to find out that I don't qualify for much of anything (I got $85 for the past four weeks...granted, I made like $800 from the temp job) Anyway, I am trying to get into Paralegal training because I can't afford law school (not without $100,000 in loans - like anyone would give a tranny that kind of cash to go to school in the first place)

all before the state funding dries up.
yay