I started looking at job-search resources on Thursday after work, as planned.

Mostly I need a shift of mindset from avoidance toward engagement in the process. Over the past few days I realized I should be addressing this on a daily basis, at least during the week. So my goal will be, by the end of October, to establish a habit of spending 45 ( Read more... )

I've been avoiding the next step in 6 Changes. I've been arriving home from work every day with leg and back pain, so all I want to do is sit and be quiet. My mood has been sad and pessimistic, but failing to address long-term career questions will not help.

So here's the beginning of a plan: on Thursday evening I will compile a list of job-finding ( Read more... )

I am back: slowly, but the daily routine I worked to establish last year will not be held off. My body and mind have begun to insist on it. This is good.

Sunday evening I submitted the new cycle of poems for my daughters to a chapbook contest, more than 24 hours ahead of the deadline, hurray! This week there is no contract work on the horizon and I ( Read more... )

Friends, I need moral support. The one thing that frightens me most is job hunting. After managing to defer it for a while, now I'm in the midst.

In November 2003 I attended a local business develpment centre to get help finding a job. Instead a workshop leader took a dislike to me, told me in front of a group of people that I wasn't ready to write ( Read more... )

I am in that singularly terrifying place now: "on the brink of disaster, on the imminence of a miracle."

The possible organ-building contract, which would keep us busy for a year, might begin in November. For now I'm unemployed. This week I have to write a new resume and register with temp agencies to hopefully tide me over for at least six weeks ( Read more... )

I arrived home this afternoon to find a cheque in the mail. My application has been accepted as an independent service provider to care for "Luke", and I have received payment for the first three afternoons I worked with him. It isn't large, but equivalent to what I've had to live on for one week after the bills are paid.

It's almost a quarter of ( Read more... )

Starting next Thursday, I have a job once a week looking after a friend's autistic 13-year-old son for 90 minutes after school. I'll call him Luke. I know the family through Two Rivers, and have spent time around Luke before. He has a pleasant disposition, likes science and science fiction, and has recently become an avid reader.

This happened ( Read more... )

From thefridayfive:

1. What job do you have, and why do you like/hate it? I'm a volunteer at Out On The Shelf. I like having a set of procedures to follow, knowing what is expected of me, and knowing my work is appreciated. The library is more orderly than my personal life, and it's a relaxing place to spend time. I also enjoy the spontaneity of responding to ( Read more... )

Earlier this month I started volunteering at Out On The Shelf, Guelph's queer lending library, which has been open about a year. I like all the other volunteers I've met so far. They're all new people to me. I'm pleased to be making more acquaintances in the community. And of course they're all book people, too. We do four-hour shifts, welcoming ( Read more... )

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