Family Day - May 16th, 2009

Author: Posh Daddy

At last the weekend is here. It has been a week and a half since I became unemployed. Searching for a job sucks as much as it always has, times 2! I was not aware that jobs are no longer posted, at length, in the Sunday paper. Last weekend, I grabbed the North County Times thinking that there would be a few pages for me to search through. There was only about half a page!! Before when I was looking, I was single, living at home and put a little time in each day. Now, I have a family, a house and plenty of bills that need to get taken care of as well. We'll say that I'm handling it a touch differently. I was advised by a friend of mine to treat it like a full time job and spend 8 hours a day, looking. This I have done.

I have a question... Does anyone keep detailed records, enough to know your previous start and stop dates for past employers, your title, last rate of pay and a good description of what you did while working there? Let me just say that as a full-time student, I worked a lot of part-time jobs and I thought I kept decent records. Well, this process has showed me that I could have done better. I spent about a week, applying for jobs and updating my personal information, typing the descriptions and other documents.

Today we'll probably run some errands and enjoy the day together with our son. I hope all of you have a wonderful Saturday. Let me know if you hear of any good job opportunities.