The job hunt continues...

So when I left my job two months ago because I had to move across the city, I didn't really think I'd have that much trouble finding another one. Oh, no biggie, I thought. I have Loads of Experience. I can wear All The Hats. Someone will snap me up quick smart.

Look at all my hats!

What I didn't realise was that EVERYBODY ELSE was also looking for a job and EVERYBODY ELSE apparently has more hats than me.

Everybody else

So every time I apply for a job it's like 'we thank you for your application, we have had a very strong response to this ad...very experienced applicants...blah blah blah.' The general gist of it is, thanks, but come back when you have ten years experience in EXACTLY what we advertised for and a masters degree in Business Bullshit. Even the ones that call me back or give me an interview are all like oh, you're perfect..BUT SOMEONE ELSE IS MORE PERFECT.

Discouraged kitten is discouraged

I am waiting on a couple of things at the moment, but I'm not getting my hopes up too high. People are all like OH YEAH HAVE THIS JOB! and then they don't call you back and when you call them they're like...'oh, yeah, just waiting to hear from the...people...will call you tomorrow to touch base.' And then they don't. It's very, very frustrating.

But oh well! I have only been looking for two months. And for the first month I was kind of like LA LA LA UNEMPLOYMENT IS THE FUNNEST, I'LL FIND A JOB WHEN I WANT ONE and I even turned down two jobs, because they had crap hours. I would take the crap hours now, of course, because Christmas is approaching fast and my anniversary is on Saturday and although I still have many savings I DO NOT WANT to touch them, which means I am quite poor. I will take your job! I will take your crappy, low paid, inconvenient hours job! Let me wear your hat!

Oh no, not that one. You keep that one.