.the hunter.
i've been looking for a job. and i don't mean a career or anything too serious or anything really specific. i'll do anything.
i'm not asking much. just a paycheck. a place to go during the day so i'm not sitting at home watching back-to-back episodes of dawson's creek and days of our lives..
so i drove two or so hours last tuesday to reno. my brother lives there. and i will live there soon enough. and i did the whole job search thing. until today. i made a list of places (mostly using the internet for the information) i would like to work and their addresses and i visited them. time after time shut down. shut down because they just aren't hiring. i didn't even get a chance.
(and there's the whole driving around a city you don't know very well all day in the heat and the traffic. add that to the mix.)
so i took some applications from places that aren't even looking for help. i emailed my resume to a few places i found on the university's job board. i asked around. i got a lead from a lady who suggested a coffee shop in a casino - they have a high turnover rate, which is not really a good sign. but i kept missing the lady i was going to talk to. so i'll be trying again when i drive back over to reno next tuesday.
i'm driving back and forth because i have no place to live. my not having a place to live is in direct relation to my not having a job. (imagine a rock and a hard place here. or a catch-22.) i don't have enough money to really put a deposit and first month's rent down on a place. and i think having a place to live in the city i'm going to be working (and going to school) in would help. immensely.
to recap: i need a job. in order to get a job i need a place to live. but in order to get a place to live i need money. and to get money i need a job.
i did have a plan. originally, my brother who lives there (and has a good job and an extra $2500 a month - he likes to tell me about his financial situation.. saying things like "it's weird.. i just don't know what to do with this extra money.." all the while i'm thinking of ways to steal this $2500 from him every month. that's more money than i've ever saved up. but. i digress. end of parentheses.) was supposed to have bought a house. and i was going to live with him. for not very much money. so i was going to have a cheap place to live while going to graduate school. but. it hasn't worked out that way.
and i think he's starting to realize - it's his couch i'm sleeping on after all - how much things haven't worked out. which is good.
which sounds like i'm taking him for granted, or expecting a lot out of him, or not appreciating him, or being selfish.. but it's not really that way at all. he's family after all.. and he's the one who offered in the first place..
but that wasn't my original idea i was working on when i started this. it was the fact that i'm unemployed. and job searching really shtinks. and the only real way to get a job one might enjoy is through connections. networking. which isn't all that nice when one moves to a new city.
it's frustrating.
and that's where you'll find me now.
frustrated.
i'm not asking much. just a paycheck. a place to go during the day so i'm not sitting at home watching back-to-back episodes of dawson's creek and days of our lives..
so i drove two or so hours last tuesday to reno. my brother lives there. and i will live there soon enough. and i did the whole job search thing. until today. i made a list of places (mostly using the internet for the information) i would like to work and their addresses and i visited them. time after time shut down. shut down because they just aren't hiring. i didn't even get a chance.
(and there's the whole driving around a city you don't know very well all day in the heat and the traffic. add that to the mix.)
so i took some applications from places that aren't even looking for help. i emailed my resume to a few places i found on the university's job board. i asked around. i got a lead from a lady who suggested a coffee shop in a casino - they have a high turnover rate, which is not really a good sign. but i kept missing the lady i was going to talk to. so i'll be trying again when i drive back over to reno next tuesday.
i'm driving back and forth because i have no place to live. my not having a place to live is in direct relation to my not having a job. (imagine a rock and a hard place here. or a catch-22.) i don't have enough money to really put a deposit and first month's rent down on a place. and i think having a place to live in the city i'm going to be working (and going to school) in would help. immensely.
to recap: i need a job. in order to get a job i need a place to live. but in order to get a place to live i need money. and to get money i need a job.
i did have a plan. originally, my brother who lives there (and has a good job and an extra $2500 a month - he likes to tell me about his financial situation.. saying things like "it's weird.. i just don't know what to do with this extra money.." all the while i'm thinking of ways to steal this $2500 from him every month. that's more money than i've ever saved up. but. i digress. end of parentheses.) was supposed to have bought a house. and i was going to live with him. for not very much money. so i was going to have a cheap place to live while going to graduate school. but. it hasn't worked out that way.
and i think he's starting to realize - it's his couch i'm sleeping on after all - how much things haven't worked out. which is good.
which sounds like i'm taking him for granted, or expecting a lot out of him, or not appreciating him, or being selfish.. but it's not really that way at all. he's family after all.. and he's the one who offered in the first place..
but that wasn't my original idea i was working on when i started this. it was the fact that i'm unemployed. and job searching really shtinks. and the only real way to get a job one might enjoy is through connections. networking. which isn't all that nice when one moves to a new city.
it's frustrating.
and that's where you'll find me now.
frustrated.
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