Blogging Day 7 (should be Day 22) - The Wash

Have you ever had a good opportunity come to you, and then you did the math, finding out that it would be a wash?

My super kind brother-in-law had a job opening at his work, and gave me the inside lead. I got more info. It was part time, $9/hr, and a 70 mile round …

Blogging Day 7 - The Card

In the middle of our personal financial crisis, a card came to us with no name or return address. It had $1000 cash in it and read:

God knows what's in your heart
and what you need before you ask.
Even when you
don't know for sure, God knows,
because He knows …

Blogging Challenge Day 6 - free food

One of the things we've checked out since going down to 1/4 of our "normal income" was a free food program put on by "Church Without Walls" in Mesa. We showed up one early Wednesday morning, not sure what to expect. We got in line, signed in, then walked towards the …

Blogging Challenge Day 5 - Warning

WARNING: Do not attempt to contact parents of children you babysat over 3 years ago to ask if they need a babysitter again. If the over-protective mom doesn't remember you, she will be worried where you got her kids names.

I was just trying to think of creative …

Blogging Challenge Day 4 - More Irony

Out of the few interviews I was called on to attend, two happened in the same week. One was within the same field I had previously been working in before being laid off. This field has a lot of politics that are hard for some people to handle, and I wasn't anxious to …

Blogging Challenge Day 3 - Time

When you have nothing but time on your hands, what do you do? Well, watch a lot of sindication at first, but then things you've been meaning to do pop into your mind. I had been working on a screenplay for a while, but only had about 30 pages, so when my sister told …

Blogging Challenge Day 2

Before my last day of work, after being told of my lay-off, I was connected with someone who was looking for an employee with my experience. I had an awesome reference letter (the COO had me write it myself), and the first interview went great - two hours of great …

Blogging Challenge Day 1 of BEING LAID OFF

Being Laid Off

Day 1:
In November 2008 my supervisor came into my office and closed the door. I was told I was being laid off. I laughed! My initial reaction was, "That is...hilarious."

I had been struggling with direction in my current environment for some …