Fucking Tuesday!
Mood: 
Should probably be feeling more down than I actually am.
Should probably be feeling more down than I actually am.Such was the popular phrase around the office today. (Everything bad always happens on Tuesdays!)
As of today I officially no longer work for Nexopia. :c It didn't come as a huge surprise at all -- I've pretty much been in a constant state of anxious paranoia about being laid off for the last year, so I think a part of me was actually a little relieved I wouldn't have to go into the office again and just sit there fretting all day. The team at work has slowly been getting smaller and smaller so it was pretty obvious that there wasn't really going to much of a place for me soon -- a few other coworkers also received the same news; a couple of people who I wasn't surprised about, and a couple I was.
Overall, I'm in pretty positive spirits to tell the truth (though I'm not going to lie, between lunch and dinner I've had a couple of very tasty pornstar cocktails, so who's to say.) The timing sort of sucked considering starting today Mason is back in school for a couple months, but (currently) our money situation is not a huge issue. I'd already begun the search for a new job a while ago for a variety of reasons, so I've got the jump on that already as well. I haven't been happy working in the web development field for some time now. I realized that I had to get out of a career that was just making me unhappy (and I knew back in school would eventually make me unhappy), so I've been zeroing in on a career path I've long believed I'd be more suited to and in fact enjoy: library technologies~ :B
We don't have the money for me to go back to school right now, so I'm trying to at least get my foot in the door as a library page. Even getting a part time position at a library in some fashion would be great, and then I could just get another part time job to fill the rest of my 40 work hours (my backup job choices at this point include things like administrative work, data entry, or -- if I was lucky enough -- a position at the Humane Society or helping out at a vet clinic.) The deadline for one of the page positions I applied for and am really excited about is up tomorrow, so I'm crossing my fingers that I receive a phone call over the next week for an interview. Anyone who's not crossing their fingers for me, COMMENCE FINGER CROSSING NOW. Thx.
So for the mean time I'm a lazy, jobless bum. On my to-do list for tomorrow: a whole lot of nothing. Gonna mail in my ROE for some possible EI monies, do some laundry, the grocery shopping, read some of my overly giant copy of Mists of Avalon... and oh yeah, continue the scary job hunt.
At least I get to sleep in, eh?
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that sucks that you were laid off but this situation is obviously for the better! and if this is a ray of sunshine in your storm of positivity - i overheard a very talkative and somewhat fruity library staffer telling some woman that he worked there full time and had a bachelor of arts in english... so i mean really....your chances of getting in without honest to god library centered education are better than you may think....
i will keep my fingers crossed for you for sure!
Glad to hear it's not such bad news for you after all. And I know just how you feel being stuck doing a job you don't want to do, believe me. You're good at it, so you know, for whatever that's worth. Took us a long time to really figure that out, but you are.
Are you going cold turkey or are you open to contract work in that field (or design in general) to fill the gaps? Can't guarantee anything, but if I can help I will.
Oh my gosh! I applied for library and information technology at Grant Mac for next year! Apply Brenna - we'll be together!
Also, I can't seem to get a page job :( I hope you have better luck than me.
@Graham: Cold turkey for me. I've felt this way for quite a while which is why I stopped accepting contract work last year, I just couldn't stand doing it. Thanks for the offer though~
@Amanda: I really wanted to apply for next year! >_< We just can't afford it right now though. ;_; Maybe in a couple years down the road.
When you applied for page positions, did you ever even get a call back? I haven't had any luck even getting an interview yet. *Tear* Apparently the library gets a ton of applications for page positions though, so we're up against a lot of other people I guess.
Nope, no call backs either :(
I have less money than you :S But I kind of don't have a marketable skill like you do so I'm either going to do this or go into Education (both would take two years) - only chance I have at finding a real job!
I know a number of people in the library field, though none at EPL. (My sister-in-law works at the Legislature library. She's got her actual MLS.) Not sure how helpful that will be, but I can ask.
I often enjoy being unemployed, because of the not having to work part; it's just the not getting paid part that catches up with me. I spent about half of 1993 fruitlessly looking for work and living off of EI before giving up and going back to school on student loans.
I'd really like to work at a public library of some kind or a university or general school library, so legislature stuff wouldn't really interest me, but if there's anyone you could put in a good word for me I'd appreciate it, thanks~
I'm not going to lie, for the first while I'm going to enjoy the time off but eventually I'm going to run out of things to putter around doing. ^^; In the mean time though, I have a pretty long list of house stuff and errands to run around doing to fill my time.