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Sunday, 02 August 2009

Job Search

I have officially applied for 15 jobs, all online. 2 of them required me taking my resume in, one of them I think I have a good chance at because my former boss/moms best friend is chummy with the boss there and said she would talk to him for me. Although it is working with developmentally disabled adults, not interior design...I loved my job working with Adults w/ DD and found it extremely rewarding but its not using my major so it makes me feel like college was sorta a waste. My other in person resume was at Carpet Barn which is an ALL commission job...which makes me extremely nervous because there was 1 person (the employee) in when I turned in my resume. I'm sure that I could probably make a lot of money there but I don't like not knowing how much I'll make...Today I got a call back for an interview, at Wyndham Resorts doing sales, it seems like a fun job, I know a guy who did it in HS and made BANK but I googled Wyndham after I made an interview time and realized its on the other side of Branson which equals a 58 minute drive, when not in old people traffic, one way to work everyday...I e-mailed the lady back and apologized but I didn't think I would take a job with such a commute and didn't want to waste her time, I'm sure I'll regret it if in 3 weeks I'm still unemployed but I'd like to think I'm eligable for SOMETHING with a college degree in Springfield Missouri!! I've applied for several college related advisor positions, seems like a really odd job for me but I like organizing and scheduling so... University of Phoenix had 2 and MSU has 1. MSU also screwed over my friend Amy and she is 1 credit hour short of her 125 to graduate TOMORROW so I'm pretty sure they need some Advisors who can count, plus its a 9 month contract which would equal 3 months of vacation for me!! I've also applied for Pharamacutical Rep jobs (but I can't really travel because Blake does so much and someone has to be home with the babies) Loan Processors, Store Managers, Receptionists and an Events Cordinator, oh yeah Home Depot is hiring a Designer...So in 13 days I've applied for 15 jobs. Also I have a call tomorrow with the unemployement office to figure some stuff out, they mailed me a letter. If I can get it all figured out I'll receive $85/week for up to 33 weeks...If I get $85/week for more than a month I will literally want to kill myself. I figured out if I spend NO MONEY on anything except rent, utilities & insurance it costs me $12/day to live = $40/month more to live than I'll make on unemployment if I don't eat, thankfully Blake has been taking care of me (semi) because I did take care of him for his 6 months of unemployment and I have some money saved up but BOY does being poor SUCK!!
High School

I guess some people NEVER change! There is a girl from my HS who I literally have not spoken to since 2 weeks before graduation in 2005, except once she sent me a message on facebook asking if I wanted to ever talk to someone about my father leaving my family I could always call her because "she'd been thru the same thing" Her father left her mom when she was pregnant with her, hardly the same thing as having your father leave when you are 18... I never responded and I guess it really bothered her. She was always real snooty in HS and thought her way was the only way. Just imagine the girl who always has to be right and multiply her by 3 to get Whitney. Her boyfriend in HS told me off because "I was telling people that she didn't like him" ...LOL even at the time. He later bought a house and put her name on the title, she painted the kitchen lime green, got drunk and told everyone he had a small penis, they broke up and he spent several months trying to get her name off the title to his home. She is now dating a big douche bag that she dated when she was 16 and he constantly has his status as something VERY ANTI Obama Healthcare planning. I find this extremely funny because she could not be more PRO Obama from all along. I pointed out on his status a few weeks ago that not only would we have to pay for illegal aliens to have healthcare but we are already paying for them to have education, because legally we have to provide everyone in the US under age 16 education (which almost always includes HEAVY english tutoring) she tried to argue with me that schools already have English as a Second Language tutors in place. Yeah because schools with 200 white kids have a heavy need to ESL teachers... he deleted his status because I'm sure she cried to him. Today his status is about Obama care and her status is that she hates people who talk politics over facebook. The same girl who for almost 6 months had something about how wonderful Obama was until he was elected. Guess she can only handle the truth her way.
Clutter

Twice now I've written a post and not had it be published. This one was a pretty good one but now you'll get the Readers Digest version of it. Blake is a packrat, not a terrible one I think its just laziness, he doesn't want to get rid of any of his belongings and prefers to just have his clothing overflow into the extra closet as well as have junk everywhere in his room. He had just a few items for my moms garage sale, mostly free t-shirts that didnt fit him but were in his closet anyways etc... He has a 1/2 a closet of clothing he never wears and I can not do his laundry for 3 weeks and he will still have an overflowing closet of clean clothes he could wear but he keeps buying new clothes and shoes. So at my moms garage sale we found a pair of 38x34 black dress pants that she said were in my closet, decided they were Blakes because they are his size, we sold them on the garage sale. I mentioned to him today if he had any idea why I might have a pair of his pants in my closet, he asked what I did with them, told him they sold for $1 not 25cents. He flipped out on my for selling his pants without his permission, best guess if they are his... they are from when we went to my friend Heather's wedding. Heather got married in October 2006. Almost 3 years later and you have never thought you were missing a pair of pants?? yeah that seems like too much stuff. I should have kept my mouth shut about the pants because he obviously didn't miss them but too late now. Would it be wrong to tell Blake they were a 34x34 and must have been my brother or dads?
Garage Sale

I spent the weekend with my mom, well Thursday & Friday... not working means any 2 days of a week are a weekend now. We sold a TON of crap. IE $245 worth of 25 cent sales an item is a lot of crap. It was great to see what was almost 6 SUV loads of the past disappear. I sold a lot of my old clothes and my mom sold a lot of books. She is soo ready to be away from our old house, it is selling and she is planning on changing her phone number and literally disappearing. I know it must be hard for her to leave where she lived for 25 years of her life but she is looking forward to "a new chapter" jon gosselin style, LOL.
My dad came down Wednesday afternoon and brought me my moms old roll top desk for the spare bedroom. I just got it all set up and I LOVE IT! I have everything all organized and put away, my laptop and printer set up and the door shut to my "office" I haven't had a desk since Sophomore year of College and I haven't used a desk since Freshman year. I love sitting here knowing I don't have any homework to do and can just relax. Speaking of college, I am getting ready to print off my resume, and cover letter to apply to be a education advisor at MSU. It is a 9month contract, which means I would have 3 months off a year and it doesn't pay terribly, $27k. I am also going Monday to apply to work at Arc of the Ozarks as a House Manager. I'm afraid I don't have enough experience for either job but at the cost of some resume paper and a few stamps it can't hurt to try. For 2 days now, as a college graduate, I felt ridiculous when someone asked me what I was doing now and I had to say I just got laid off last week. I wanted to lie and still say I worked at Fritz but when a friend's grandpa asked what my major was and I said Interior Design, he said so your going to be jobless, I laughed and knew he was right. I love Interior Design and maybe someday it'll be a profitable job but for now, NOTHING. I will be working to pay the bills and my mom keeps telling me I might find a job I end up loving, which is true.
Cheating

A guy I use to work with at the Bank, he was my old man crush (OMC) early 40s good looking with a cute little BMW, who was also the Bank Presidents son-in-law moved his office out of the Bank not too shortly after I started working there. There was also a guy who worked there for several weeks across from me before he left to work as a Bank Examiner. His wife worked for my OMC in his new office and would come in to make deposits daily, which make sense for a business but to come into the office and than visit with your boss for an hour... when you could just make a drive-thru deposit. It ALWAYS seemed weird to me especially since after he moved his office she quit coming by and just did drive-thru. She would walk through and say Hi to her husband and than visit with her boss for an hour... I always assumed there was something going on. So about 6 months ago I found out that my OMC was getting a divorce, explains his moving his office out of his Father-In-Laws Bank. An old work friend stated that OMC was getting a divorce for having an affair and I immediatly thought of the lady who came in to see him. Work friend said there was no way because she was married w/ a little boy etc. etc. I told him to watch it because I was sure that is who it was, had to be, I had always thought they were having an affair even over a year ago! Sure enough this lady and her husbands divorce is offical today. The guy works with Blake now and they travel a lot for work. So Work friend and I were talking about the fact that she will get the kid & the house so the kid doesn't have to move. So this guy had his wife cheat on him with an old-coworker & her boss to get a divorce and lose his kid and house...Why is that fair?? I hate the way this worked out for this guy. I know so many people who get a divorce now-a-days because of an affair. I know they say that financial issues are a major cause of divorces but honestly I think its infidelity. I can't think of a single couple right now that got a divorce because of anything other than cheating from one or the other.