Still Job Searching... HAHAH

Hmm... Three months later and I am still at it. Every company I talk to keeps giving me the same line: "Come March we will start hiring again." I do not know if I believe them based on what I am seeing in the news anymore. If they will not start the hiring process till March, that means I will not have a job until at least May. I say that because by the time the company posts a job, waits one month for people to get their applications in, and then starts the weeding out and interview process, it is AT LEAST two months. I was hoping to get a job before the new batch of college kids graduate. I figured my chances would be better HAHAHA

I have given up the substituting gig. I dislike the not knowing aspect of it all. When/Where am I going? What am I teaching? Substitutes get the shaft to say the least! I truly did not enjoy the last minute wake up to rush somewhere and teach a subject that I know nothing about. Also, this experience has taught me that I could only teach AP classes or at the collegiate level-- classes need more than one-sided conversation. I just do not want to spend the rest of my life waiting for the next period to start. As a result, after I got the position at Borders, I quit substitute teaching. It was way too much hassle.

So now I am working part-time at Borders, but they have now cut back all the hours. With the economy acting like it is, they had to scale back and now full time is 25 hrs and part-time is like 12 hours a week! Therefore, I am not really bringing home the bacon and can not save like I had planned. Basically, I am making enough to pay my student loans and that is it! (I am grateful beyond words that I at least have a roof over my head)

Back to the grind of job searching and networking in an attempt to find a suitable career in this crap market hmmmmmm

keep on keepin' on