May 24, 2011 15:20
Hi.
Two months since the last update. Oh how the days go by.
I've been working a temp job as a CSR for online banking. It almost-but-not-quite pays the bills, but it beats unemployment. However, it puts me in an awkward position. My friends, who used to report to me at eBay, is my boss here. He helped me get the job, so I feel I owe him a positive attitude and good performance. Since he recommended me, he put his name on the line. He's also a new supervisor, so he's still in that proving himself stage.
Of course, since the job is below my job experience and ability, my attitude isn't great. It's incredibly boring, and I tend not to be the most positive person in the best of times. Also, he knows that I'm looking for another job pretty actively. That puts me in the aforementioned awkward position. On the one hand, I need to act like I'm staying here, on the other hand I'm obviously not staying at this job long if I can help it.
One would think that there's no problem in announcing that one is looking for another job. But I guess it hurts morale, or something. He says he wants people who want to be here. I obviously don't want to be here. I think he'd like me to discuss it out loud less than I do.
I interviewed again at Comcast yesterday. I didn't get a job there when I interviewed back in February, which necessitated my selling my 401K and getting this temp job. Well a manager I worked with at both eBay and the Census got a job there as a Sr. Manager, and she was able to get me another interview. It was another second round interview with two managers. I don't know if I did better on it than I did on the first one, but with a different set of managers, the same interview could have different results. And maybe my manager-friend will pull some strings for me.
All I can do now is wait and see.
Lastly, my dad is done his chemo/radiation. Now they're just waiting while his body absorbs all the dead tissue from the tumor. Then they'll do the MRIs again and re-evaluate. The chance that the cancer was completely eradicated is slim, but I'm still hoping. I hope he doesn't have to do more chemo. That was really hard on him. You may have heard it said, "If the cancer doesn't kill you, the chemo will." I can believe it.