Elizabeth Culmer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
edenfalling) wrote2014-04-26 01:58 pm
edenfalling) wrote2014-04-26 01:58 pm
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one cloud feels lonely
My life is very overwhelming right now.
Okay. First things first.
We finally know what's going on with the smoke shop... more or less, anyway. Mr. Speakerphone and the landlords could not come to an agreement over the lease, and we are closing in early July. (Possibly late June if we sell out our remaining stock faster than expected.) We should be eligible for unemployment, since we're being let go rather than quitting. I don't know what this will do to my health insurance, or to my company pension -- which is tiny, but still, it's worth something. I will be calling our parent company's office on Monday to ask about those details.
I have started to fix up my resumé, and will email it to Vicky soon for her to look it over and give me some advice. I will also start job-searching as soon as I get a reliable internet connection.
Yeah. About the internet. First of all, I am posting this (and the previous two fic posts) from the library because something has gone wrong with either my neighbors' router or my laptop. I can kinda-sorta get online, but the connection is slow so as to be 95% useless, and half the pages I try to access time out before they load. My neighbors are away for the weekend so I can't do anything on that front until they get home, to my great frustration. But even aside from that, they are moving out of Ithaca soon -- probably in mid-June. So I will need to either make an internet-sharing deal with another one of my neighbors, or just give in and get my own personal connection, which would be more expensive but possibly simpler in the long run since I wouldn't be dependent on what happens to a router in somebody else's apartment.
I will have to look into that this coming week as well.
And get serious about applying to college, because that will make me look a lot better on job applications. There's a big difference between "some college, then I quit" and "I am in the process of finishing a bachelor's degree," you know? So that's another big item on my to-do list.
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Can I get off the world for a few days to process all of this? Please???
Okay. First things first.
We finally know what's going on with the smoke shop... more or less, anyway. Mr. Speakerphone and the landlords could not come to an agreement over the lease, and we are closing in early July. (Possibly late June if we sell out our remaining stock faster than expected.) We should be eligible for unemployment, since we're being let go rather than quitting. I don't know what this will do to my health insurance, or to my company pension -- which is tiny, but still, it's worth something. I will be calling our parent company's office on Monday to ask about those details.
I have started to fix up my resumé, and will email it to Vicky soon for her to look it over and give me some advice. I will also start job-searching as soon as I get a reliable internet connection.
Yeah. About the internet. First of all, I am posting this (and the previous two fic posts) from the library because something has gone wrong with either my neighbors' router or my laptop. I can kinda-sorta get online, but the connection is slow so as to be 95% useless, and half the pages I try to access time out before they load. My neighbors are away for the weekend so I can't do anything on that front until they get home, to my great frustration. But even aside from that, they are moving out of Ithaca soon -- probably in mid-June. So I will need to either make an internet-sharing deal with another one of my neighbors, or just give in and get my own personal connection, which would be more expensive but possibly simpler in the long run since I wouldn't be dependent on what happens to a router in somebody else's apartment.
I will have to look into that this coming week as well.
And get serious about applying to college, because that will make me look a lot better on job applications. There's a big difference between "some college, then I quit" and "I am in the process of finishing a bachelor's degree," you know? So that's another big item on my to-do list.
...
Can I get off the world for a few days to process all of this? Please???
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Welcome to the Sisterhood of Jobsearchers, though! It's frustrating as all get-out, but we can at least offer each other hugs.
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At least my internet is back up again for the moment, so that's one good thing. *attempts to look on the bright side*
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Good luck with finding something new.
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I am not on LinkedIn, but I should probably look into that. I would most like to get some kind of administrative assistant or office managerial job. That hasn't been my main area of responsibility, but I do manage a bunch of filing and bookkeeping (insofar as we do our own bookkeeping), and I've done secretarial/office work before, so I am hopeful. I would like to get out of retail, you see, and find a job where I get to sit down and also not have to constantly wear my customer service face. *wry*
My first steps have been to update my resume, send a copy to my sister for feedback, and apply for a part-time Religious Education Assistant job that my church has been advertising fruitlessly for a while. That's only 5 hours a week, and will probably pay peanuts, but anything is better than nothing.