You and I both, John.
We were looking for jobs at the same time, as I
recall.
Now, after being settled at Raytheon, we're playing
musical jobs, and I'm on pins and needles. Our dept.
didn't get new contracts this year.
Susan
>
> Message 1
> From: "tschibasch" tschibasch_at_yahoo.com
> Date: Mon May 8, 2006 2:42pm(PDT)
> Subject: Re: Good News and Bad News
>
> Reading this really took me down memory lane...
>
> In the summer of 2002, I had posted my resume at
> several places. I had
> also made business cards. I was emailing, calling,
> searching. With all
> the efforts mixed with uncertainty it was hard not
> to lose momentum.
>
> I don't know if there is a 'right' way to go about
> looking. I attended
> an evening event called the layoff lounge, and they
> gave great advice.
> There is no shame in being unemployed - the more
> people know about it,
> the better!
>
> I alternated from being optimistic to being worried.
> I tried to devote
> daytime to calling, and evening to web browsing. In
> spite of numerous
> attempts, the number of responses were few, and
> interviews fewer
> still. One of them of course was with my now current
> employer. It hjad
> gone well, but it was a long shot, and afterwards I
> went right back to
> looking. I could not allow myself to think that I
> had the job in the
> bag...
>
> A month later, they called back and we discussed a
> starting date and a
> salary. I was employed on November 20th, 2002. It
> was almost seven
> months since my last day at SyVox.
>
> I was extremely lucky. I got this job not so much on
> my resume, but on
> my connection to someone already here. A great
> resume certainly helps,
> but lots of people have great resumes. Some are more
> accurate than
> others, of course.
>
> For seven months in 2002, I did not work in an
> office. I could sleep
> in, or stay up late, or maybe leave on a month-long
> road trip. Why
> not? Anything was possible, I suppose. But what did
> I do with my time?
> Most of it was outright searching, or thinking about
> some other way to
> find work. I kept a notebook (which I still have) of
> all the calls I
> made. When someone told me to call back in a few
> weeks, I definitely
> did so! Looking for work was a full-time job in
> itself. Very little of
> this time was for relaxing. There is no way that I
> would call those
> seven months in 2002 as "time off".
>
>
> John
>
>
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Received on 2006-05-14 21:07:12