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I'm a career women, and a writer. Let's continue the conversation started 20 years ago with the Wonderblog
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My coping skills

in 2014 (so long ago!) I was laid off from the longest job I'd ever had. thank god! I cried every day working for those people.

But scraping together the self-respect to market myself to a new employer was tough after that stretch.

Filling out job applications and sending them into the void was an exercise in self-abnegation

Did I exist?
Should I exist?

I decided to sound my barbaric yawp into the world by posting my shame, my small progress on the social medias

I told myself that if I applied for 100 jobs, I would get an offer before I hit 100 hundred

that was my goal, and it was within my control. I couldn't control if they offered me an interview. I couldn't control if I even got a response.

But dammit, i was going to send those apps and feel like I was making progress!!

I did get a job in 2014, and i lost it in jan of 2015. Got another job (same twitter counting and hashtags #jobsearchrockstar #diligencediva) in April, , lost it in June, got another in August. Kept it for a year, then quit for a better gig which lasted 6 weeks. -__-

the next job I got lasted 16 months, and they fired me. Got another job in three months, and it lasted 6 weeks. But that one had a turnaround! I picked up a new job the DAY i was fired (I'd been workign on getting it two jobs earlier)

That one was almost two years, taking me into COVID. then they dumped me for the plague and it's continued...

I guess this is what I do now. I'm good at finding jobs, but not so good at keeping them.

Here's my post today
It's been great, but my contract ends in three weeks

1 job app submitted, 99 to go

#jobsearchrockstar #diligencediva

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This is Tuesday March 4th. How are you?

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In this month of Action--which I love!--I gave myself a break by pushing my jury duty into a time after I have recovered from surgery. Action can be slowed so I can carry it successfully

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