(no subject)
Long time since I've been here. Longer still since I've posted. I never really posted that much anyway, not feeling that I had much to write about. Facebook suited me better; short, little bursts of what's going on in one's life. Little sound bites. But I checked back every once in a while and thot I'd leave more than comments on the pages of others.
I am still looking for work, following the loss of my job on July first. I've been making it tho. I've had to cut way back on things, which has helped me realize how much fluff and waste there was in my life. I hadn't thot I'd have still been unemployed at this time. I really thot I would have had to take a job just to make more than my unemployment benefits, but it's lasted so far. I'm leaning heavily on credit cards tho, and that can't continue indefinitely. There are some leads out there, one which I'm waiting to hear on any day.
In the meantime, I enjoyed the rest of my summer and was able to get into a manufacturing skills training program, offered by a county agency for qualified people. That lasted 4.5 weeks and I now have 4 recognized certifications. I also got a job, again, with a local theme park to work during the scare attraction season. I had been an actor in the past and was asked to be a supervisor this year. They were wanting to promote past actors into supv. positions to get more of a balance with the other supervisors who mainly come from technical backgrounds. It's only p/t, seasonal work, but it's greater experience and puts more money in my pocket.
The weather's been dry around here. I think we've only had 1 decent rain since mid-Aug. maybe. It's been so long I can't even remember. Lawns not irrigated are dry and brown. Many of the leaves on the trees are just drying up and dropping with little to no color change. It's supposed to rain tomorrow, then get cooler, but that remains to be seen.
I am still looking for work, following the loss of my job on July first. I've been making it tho. I've had to cut way back on things, which has helped me realize how much fluff and waste there was in my life. I hadn't thot I'd have still been unemployed at this time. I really thot I would have had to take a job just to make more than my unemployment benefits, but it's lasted so far. I'm leaning heavily on credit cards tho, and that can't continue indefinitely. There are some leads out there, one which I'm waiting to hear on any day.
In the meantime, I enjoyed the rest of my summer and was able to get into a manufacturing skills training program, offered by a county agency for qualified people. That lasted 4.5 weeks and I now have 4 recognized certifications. I also got a job, again, with a local theme park to work during the scare attraction season. I had been an actor in the past and was asked to be a supervisor this year. They were wanting to promote past actors into supv. positions to get more of a balance with the other supervisors who mainly come from technical backgrounds. It's only p/t, seasonal work, but it's greater experience and puts more money in my pocket.
The weather's been dry around here. I think we've only had 1 decent rain since mid-Aug. maybe. It's been so long I can't even remember. Lawns not irrigated are dry and brown. Many of the leaves on the trees are just drying up and dropping with little to no color change. It's supposed to rain tomorrow, then get cooler, but that remains to be seen.