Monday, February 25, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Monthly Report
Yes, it really does feel like a monthly report at this point. I wish that I could make more time in my day to do blog posts, but I am struggling with making it a priority. So many good things happening, but not only do I want to share the good, I want to be able to post on this blog inspirations and notes and comments about how I am doing with my weight loss. Things that will give me the motivation to keep going. It did in the past and I am looking at getting back to blogging on a regular basis - so hoping to be back here soon on a more regular schedule.
In the meantime, there has been exciting news in my household. I am working again. I won't say that I have the job of my dreams, but that is always a work in progress.
I had about two months of nothing - no interviews, no phone calls, no temp jobs, nothing. And then in the middle of January things started to fly. I applied for a part time seasonal job (at a CPA firm) and wouldn't you know it - I got an interview. Just after that, there was an interview for a company that I had applied for in December - had applied to them once before, so it was nice to be recognized this time. In this process I am now signed up for a third temp agency. The phone starts ringing like crazy. There is a phone call here, phone call there, opportunity to have my resume looked at by another job. I said yes to all interviews at this point.
This is how my last week of January went -
Wednesday - job interview -
Thursday - possible job interview - would I like my resume looked at my this one company - sure
Friday - interview set up for Monday - two in fact.
Saturday - Part Time Seasonal job offered me a job - said yes, because you just never know how those interviews were going to go.
Monday - morning interview with the possibility of having this "temp" job start as soon as Wednesday
Monday - get a phone call for a 2nd interview from the one interview from last Wednesday
Monday - afternoon interview - company was not sure which direction they were going, but I did well in the interview - this is also a temp job, with the hopes of being hired fulltime.
Tuesday - job offer on the temp job. They are not really sure if it was going to be a fulltime job, but for the moment it is. Hoping for the best.
Wednesday - 2nd interview - I feel that it went well.
Thursday - started a job. (yes, at this point I have declined the part-time job, because it was not going to pay the bills and I had to do what I needed to do to make things work for this single mom of one).
The following Tuesday - I get a phone call for another job interview for the School Superintendent's Secretary job - I really really really wanted that. Just about 14 days later I was allowed 1 question to answer in 5 minutes as to "why do you feel you are well suited for this job" - I was up against 10 candidates and well, as much as I felt that I KILLED the answer, I was not picked. Didn't get called back for the 2nd interview later in the day.
So - here I am working again - It is a "temp" job and it really does feel like a temporary job. I am not complaining, but......I am a file clerk. I know that filing is so important to any job, and this job deals with the State Alcohol regulations - and well, they need to have tons of paperwork available for any moment inspection. I have been filing papers in number order, then once they are filed I needed to box them up, but before they got into the box I had to make sure that each file had 100 in each pack. In the end, I boxed up over 37 boxes that had 800 pieces of paper in each box - you can do the math - right??? That is a a ton of paper that I had to touch, count and make sure there was every piece in that box. I could go on and on, but for the most part I have been filing. There are positives to working - I am getting high praise for my speed - even getting the nickname "Speedy Gonzales" - because I go so fast, and I am doing it all correctly. I am off of unemployment and I am so grateful for that.. I am getting paid much better then many people, and for that I am also grateful. But, really - filing - I know this is not my dream job.
The good part - the one interview with the company that asked me for a second interview - well, they called me last week. They are having to do some internal hiring interviews, but I am being considered one of the top two candidates. This job might happen, and it is much closer to home (10 minute commute compared to a 30 minute one - yes, being further from home is hard on me too - call it luxury, but I like being close to home - doesn't everyone???)
So - very happy to be back to work. In the last two months I realized (again) that I really want to be back in the teaching field. I don't want to teach, but I would like to be in education. Providing the secretary and administrative support to schools would be a dream job for me. I am going to continue looking for that dream and when the time comes life will hand me over that change.
More posts to come - hoping that you are all doing well!!!!!
MO
In the meantime, there has been exciting news in my household. I am working again. I won't say that I have the job of my dreams, but that is always a work in progress.
I had about two months of nothing - no interviews, no phone calls, no temp jobs, nothing. And then in the middle of January things started to fly. I applied for a part time seasonal job (at a CPA firm) and wouldn't you know it - I got an interview. Just after that, there was an interview for a company that I had applied for in December - had applied to them once before, so it was nice to be recognized this time. In this process I am now signed up for a third temp agency. The phone starts ringing like crazy. There is a phone call here, phone call there, opportunity to have my resume looked at by another job. I said yes to all interviews at this point.
This is how my last week of January went -
Wednesday - job interview -
Thursday - possible job interview - would I like my resume looked at my this one company - sure
Friday - interview set up for Monday - two in fact.
Saturday - Part Time Seasonal job offered me a job - said yes, because you just never know how those interviews were going to go.
Monday - morning interview with the possibility of having this "temp" job start as soon as Wednesday
Monday - get a phone call for a 2nd interview from the one interview from last Wednesday
Monday - afternoon interview - company was not sure which direction they were going, but I did well in the interview - this is also a temp job, with the hopes of being hired fulltime.
Tuesday - job offer on the temp job. They are not really sure if it was going to be a fulltime job, but for the moment it is. Hoping for the best.
Wednesday - 2nd interview - I feel that it went well.
Thursday - started a job. (yes, at this point I have declined the part-time job, because it was not going to pay the bills and I had to do what I needed to do to make things work for this single mom of one).
The following Tuesday - I get a phone call for another job interview for the School Superintendent's Secretary job - I really really really wanted that. Just about 14 days later I was allowed 1 question to answer in 5 minutes as to "why do you feel you are well suited for this job" - I was up against 10 candidates and well, as much as I felt that I KILLED the answer, I was not picked. Didn't get called back for the 2nd interview later in the day.
So - here I am working again - It is a "temp" job and it really does feel like a temporary job. I am not complaining, but......I am a file clerk. I know that filing is so important to any job, and this job deals with the State Alcohol regulations - and well, they need to have tons of paperwork available for any moment inspection. I have been filing papers in number order, then once they are filed I needed to box them up, but before they got into the box I had to make sure that each file had 100 in each pack. In the end, I boxed up over 37 boxes that had 800 pieces of paper in each box - you can do the math - right??? That is a a ton of paper that I had to touch, count and make sure there was every piece in that box. I could go on and on, but for the most part I have been filing. There are positives to working - I am getting high praise for my speed - even getting the nickname "Speedy Gonzales" - because I go so fast, and I am doing it all correctly. I am off of unemployment and I am so grateful for that.. I am getting paid much better then many people, and for that I am also grateful. But, really - filing - I know this is not my dream job.
The good part - the one interview with the company that asked me for a second interview - well, they called me last week. They are having to do some internal hiring interviews, but I am being considered one of the top two candidates. This job might happen, and it is much closer to home (10 minute commute compared to a 30 minute one - yes, being further from home is hard on me too - call it luxury, but I like being close to home - doesn't everyone???)
So - very happy to be back to work. In the last two months I realized (again) that I really want to be back in the teaching field. I don't want to teach, but I would like to be in education. Providing the secretary and administrative support to schools would be a dream job for me. I am going to continue looking for that dream and when the time comes life will hand me over that change.
More posts to come - hoping that you are all doing well!!!!!
MO
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Make your Dream Come True
It is just about the end of January - have you looked over your dream for this year? What are your goals? What about your resolutions? I never really make resolutions, I just go for goals. I can't beat myself up if I don't hit them, but making an Inspiration Board to get me to certain goals is always something that I enjoy doing at the beginning of the year. I find pictures, words of wisdom, things that inspire me to set my goal of losing weight into motion - or keep it going - or take it to the next step. I have done one for the last two years and yes, they have given me motivation, but there are times I feel that I should make the board bigger so that it is YELLING at me each day saying - GO FOR THAT DREAM!!!
That is my theme for this year - going to go for the DREAM in 2013!!! I am going to make my dream a reality and hit the goals I need to hit. First up - 10 pounds - and for every 10 pounds I do I am going to treat myself to a CD that I can add to my workout play list or just enjoy on a nice drive on the weekend.
Tonight I will be creating my 2013 Inspiration Board and I have decided that I am going to make it much bigger then next year. Can't wait to share it with you all.
Have a great a super day!!!! Find something that gets you to smile today - you a happy face!!!1
MO
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Pinch me - FINALLY!!!
Some exciting news from the Mo "out of work" camp!!
As I mentioned in my last post the phone was ringing again (I typed "reading", meant to say ring, ring, ringing). All good news - especially after I found out that my unemployment was going to continue (but I am tired of asking for assistance from the government - I know that sounds silly, but I am ready to go back to work) Here is how the flood gates opened up.
Two Saturdays back I had an interview for a part time seasonal tax office job. As luck would have it, I got the job just one week later. I was not fully excited about this, because it was part time seasonal, but I was a bit excited to be back to work.
Days before this interview I renewed my teaching credential and was contemplating going back into the subbing pool and/or full-time teaching again, but again, this was not an option I was excited about.
Then just last week I signed up with another Temp to Hire Employment agency (not knowing what the part time job was going to produce). They came through in a pinch. They were calling me left and right about interviewing with one company, then another.
On top of that, another temp agency was calling me and had another job interview in the works for me.
Ring - Ring - there goes the phone again - another interview option of a job I applied for back in early December. It is for a job I really want. Close to home, good company and just right up my alley. Things got even better when I had a good interview. Only time would tell. In the meantime I got the part time seasonal job offer - then two more interviews on Monday morning.
Interview #1 at 9 am Monday - it went well. And if they liked me then I would start the job as early as Wednesday (yes, tomorrow).
Interview #2 - 2 pm Monday - again, it went well. I was relaxed, ready for anything and didn't feel nervous when all of the sudden I was meeting with four people and not two. The only thing I was concerned about was that the job was not going to be full-time. I thought it would, but come to find out that they are still contemplating how or what they want to do with the position. I am not so sure.
Ring - Ring - an offer for a 2nd interview with the company I REALLY want the job with!! I am so excited that I picked up M & M's to give to the two Mike's that are interviewing me for a 2nd time - if I can't win them with kindness, then hit the sweet tooth. That happens tomorrow.
Ring - Ring - a job offer today!!! Temp to Hire - starts officially on Thursday!!!!
I felt a bit bad, but had to call the part time job and tell them Thanks, but No Thanks - and I wished them luck in the latest Tax Season.
I feel like I am in a dream. It has been 11 months, two weeks and a few days since having full-time employment, much less any employment that is bringing in money into the house. I feel like I am in a dream. Pinch me - finally!
All of this has been happening so fast. In a good way, but boy, what the heck. There was nothing for so long and now there is so much!!! What is that expression - Feast or Famine???
Now the drill is to make sure I can get my 11 year old ready for school without me being home. I have a little bit of a commute and will have to leave before 7:30 each morning. My neighbor is going to help out and pick him up a few mornings a week - thank goodness school does not go for too much longer. Next year he will be in walking distance to school. It is just going to be a change of pace for this family. We can do it and it is really exciting, but scary all at the same time.
I think my total motivation came because, well, you know what the heck - it is time. Friday night - 10 pm - time to realize that the Unemployment Vacation was over. I made of list of things to accomplish on the weekend. In just a few shorts hours on Saturday I had stripped the beds, remade them, done two more loads of laundry, cleaned both bathrooms, did the dusting, cleaned the floors in my bedroom - got home from an interview - cleaned the kitchen, mopped the floors...and so much more. Sunday we worked on the back fence that was coming down, I finally trimmed the rose bushes in the back and cleaned up the yard.
I am so glad that I will be going back to work. That I am going to be making money on my own again. That I will be out of the house and meeting new people, and helping myself as well as others. So many emotions right now.
This lady is on FIRE!!!!!
MO
As I mentioned in my last post the phone was ringing again (I typed "reading", meant to say ring, ring, ringing). All good news - especially after I found out that my unemployment was going to continue (but I am tired of asking for assistance from the government - I know that sounds silly, but I am ready to go back to work) Here is how the flood gates opened up.
Two Saturdays back I had an interview for a part time seasonal tax office job. As luck would have it, I got the job just one week later. I was not fully excited about this, because it was part time seasonal, but I was a bit excited to be back to work.
Days before this interview I renewed my teaching credential and was contemplating going back into the subbing pool and/or full-time teaching again, but again, this was not an option I was excited about.
Then just last week I signed up with another Temp to Hire Employment agency (not knowing what the part time job was going to produce). They came through in a pinch. They were calling me left and right about interviewing with one company, then another.
On top of that, another temp agency was calling me and had another job interview in the works for me.
Ring - Ring - there goes the phone again - another interview option of a job I applied for back in early December. It is for a job I really want. Close to home, good company and just right up my alley. Things got even better when I had a good interview. Only time would tell. In the meantime I got the part time seasonal job offer - then two more interviews on Monday morning.
Interview #1 at 9 am Monday - it went well. And if they liked me then I would start the job as early as Wednesday (yes, tomorrow).
Interview #2 - 2 pm Monday - again, it went well. I was relaxed, ready for anything and didn't feel nervous when all of the sudden I was meeting with four people and not two. The only thing I was concerned about was that the job was not going to be full-time. I thought it would, but come to find out that they are still contemplating how or what they want to do with the position. I am not so sure.
Ring - Ring - an offer for a 2nd interview with the company I REALLY want the job with!! I am so excited that I picked up M & M's to give to the two Mike's that are interviewing me for a 2nd time - if I can't win them with kindness, then hit the sweet tooth. That happens tomorrow.
Ring - Ring - a job offer today!!! Temp to Hire - starts officially on Thursday!!!!
I felt a bit bad, but had to call the part time job and tell them Thanks, but No Thanks - and I wished them luck in the latest Tax Season.
I feel like I am in a dream. It has been 11 months, two weeks and a few days since having full-time employment, much less any employment that is bringing in money into the house. I feel like I am in a dream. Pinch me - finally!
All of this has been happening so fast. In a good way, but boy, what the heck. There was nothing for so long and now there is so much!!! What is that expression - Feast or Famine???
Now the drill is to make sure I can get my 11 year old ready for school without me being home. I have a little bit of a commute and will have to leave before 7:30 each morning. My neighbor is going to help out and pick him up a few mornings a week - thank goodness school does not go for too much longer. Next year he will be in walking distance to school. It is just going to be a change of pace for this family. We can do it and it is really exciting, but scary all at the same time.
I think my total motivation came because, well, you know what the heck - it is time. Friday night - 10 pm - time to realize that the Unemployment Vacation was over. I made of list of things to accomplish on the weekend. In just a few shorts hours on Saturday I had stripped the beds, remade them, done two more loads of laundry, cleaned both bathrooms, did the dusting, cleaned the floors in my bedroom - got home from an interview - cleaned the kitchen, mopped the floors...and so much more. Sunday we worked on the back fence that was coming down, I finally trimmed the rose bushes in the back and cleaned up the yard.
I am so glad that I will be going back to work. That I am going to be making money on my own again. That I will be out of the house and meeting new people, and helping myself as well as others. So many emotions right now.
This lady is on FIRE!!!!!
MO
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