Week One

This is the beginning of my first week being laid off.

7:15 AM - This Monday morning establishes my routine.  Get out of bed.  Wash face, head downstairs.  Breakfast, coffee, check up on news.  Not bad, I guess.

8:15 AM - Freshen Coffee.  Head upstairs with newspaper clippings.  Time to job search. First, reflect on what got you here.  I don't begrudge my former employer.  I was the lowest on the totem pole.  Least experienced in their system.  Work scarce.  Something has to go.  Wish it wasn't me.  What else could be done?
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8:30 AM - Write blog post.  Check.

8:45 AM - Get to work.  Check.

11:30 AM - Ready for my first interview.  They said they'd call.
11:35 AM - Still ready...  Check e-mail.  Did I miss something?  Maybe their conference room was booked. Panel interview.  Schedules got crossed?

11:37 AM - there it is.  Phone ringing.
 Hello....

11:40 AM - connection starts to get blotchy and staticky.

11:45 AM -  Call waiting beeps.  Another call coming in.  Really?

11:55 AM - Another call waiting beep.  Shut up. 

12:05 PM - Went well, I think.  Good conversation.  Wish me luck.

Time for lunch.  While fixing lunch the call waiting call comes through.  Some education facilitator wanting me to go back to school. He is going to switch me over to a recorded line.  Suddenly, I get two lines.  Him and some recorded sound track telling me about this, that and the other.   It is lunch time.  I have another interview this afternoon.  I need lunch and then I have to go to the other interview.  Geesh.  Sorry, Man, I am not interested. 

There are a lot of scams out there.  Find your dream job.  Sign up to apply and they want to charge you $19.95 for two months access to apply for that job and others like it.  Fahgeddaboutit!!!!
Good bye. 

1:45 PM - Second interview today.  Nice to be wanted.  Or that people want to talk to you.  No, we don't have anything that fits your needs.  We will keep looking tho'.  Thanks for driving a half hour to get here.

2:30 PM - At home.  Check e-mail.  Nothing.

3:00 PM - Sitting in my Jammies updating my blog.

3:45 PM - sitting in my jammies, sippin' on some suds, watching some inane stuff on the widescreen.  k

4:00 PM - Calling it a day.

Stay tuned to this page for Tomorrow's gripping tale of Dave's excursion to the unemployment office.  Or, as my cousin says, "the unenjoyment office."

D.