Looking for Work

I have been looking for work for almost 4 weeks now. It is getting hard to find work to apply for with my experience and pay wage. The problem is that I have a lot of experience and at my last job I was getting good wage. Also there is not that many jobs posted with wages near what I was making. Of course when I apply for jobs that do not post a wage, I find out later that I am over qualified for the position and that it is not in my pay range. Well, I now I have to think outside the box to find a way to make some money.

Well, I have been getting emails about work for self employment positions, like Financial Adviser or Insurance Agent, you have to pay a lot up front for training and licenses. Also you have to network with friends and family or cold call or buy more leads to get your business going. I have talked about this with my husband and if I do this it will be a last resort kind of thing. Also I do not know if I can still claim unemployment benefits or training can be call for career change and it's okay to claim.

Then there is going back to school, guess what they will not pay unemployment benefits if I go back. They will not let me because my job is still here in the United States and did not get ship overseas. Also my skills can be used for any industry. If there is office work then I must apply but the problem is most Office work is entry level position and is paying to low for me.

I have a few other ideas about making some money but I need to get a plan in place for business ideas. I need to some research and brainstorming. I might need some investors as well. I am trying to think of things to do between interview and job searching, which is not very often. Cleaning house gets boring after a while.

Laid Off

Well, I was laid off about 2 weeks ago from my job of 6 years. I did go through the grief stages. Now I am at a point that I am starting to get better. I am starting to get things done, not letting the sadness of not finding a job soon and that there is practically nothing in my pay range and skills for me. I will continue to look for a job but also I am trying to find other things to do with my time. I heard on the news the other day, that the average person that was in unemployment was 9 months. I hope we still have our house by then or I have found a job or way to earn money to help pay for bills and debt we have.

Today, it took me 1 hour and half to clean and get laundry started. I was not trying to get it done fast but I wonder around my upstairs and getting things done. Before today, I was filling over whelmed with all the chores and things around the house that I could get done. But what I did to get done in that hour and half, I was surprise myself again. Well, it sounds like some one is ready for his nap and I can get the dishes done.

Boy I am bad about blogging.

Well, I was hope that this blog thing would get me to write more about me or thing I like to write about. I have been thinking about writing for a living. I have a good ideas but I know I am the worse when it comes to grammar. Oh well, I hope that practice make perfect or a least better than I am now. I was trying think of what I can do to kill time before I have to go to bed. I did not want to read new or "window shop" online. I came across that oh ya I still have a blog; and I wanted to try to write more. Okay, I know it is still to just to write that I want to write more.

Well, I feel better about my self. I thought that I was not going any where in life. Still have the same job, same house, felt like I could never get anything done. Well, on Facebook while reading a few my friends say about New Year's Revolutions, and a few where discussing about learning from the year past and hope for a better new year. Also to do not worry about the past; it is done and over. Well, I try to think what has happen in this last year, what change, or did I learn and grow from it. Well, I learn that stress can make me fat, and when I worry about every little thing I did not do, it makes me stress and grumpy. So I am trying more every time I remember to let go of the things I can not control, and let some things go. So I am reaching some of my goals; and that it will take time to do those goals.

So, I hope this is a start of a new habit and that some day and may be it for me to be an Author. I guess I need to take baby steps. :)