Tarekith wrote:Considering how much time you'll be spending looking for a new job, I'm not sure about the "too much free time" comment. I went through the same thing when we moved to Seattle and I had to look for a new job. Best advice I can give is to just treat the job like it's a job itself. You'll have good days, you'll have bad days, but 'go to the office' on time and keep at it every day. I found that being home was distracting at times, so I'd often go to the library and get online to make sure I was working and not wasting time with stuff around the house.
+1 to the painting idea though, that's actually brilliant.
Hope I don't come off as oblivious to the seriousness of the situation here, but after working at the same job for 5 years I think I deserve
some time off. Plus when we get older the retirement age is going to be like 85 and that's if we saved money or don't die by then. So these cyclical layoff periods is probably as close as we're going to get to retirement, and repeat.
But please do explain what 40 hours a week of looking for a job looks like. I can't imagine.
3 of my best long term jobs actually started as a temp so I think temp agencies will be my first stop. Usually companies in tough times turn to temp agencies and I'm more of a "foot in the door" type than hard selling myself for the top slot right out the gate. They're might be a good dose of ignorance in all that too, but it's worked for me in the past.
BTW I found Seattle pretty cool last week. Kind of reminded me of a clean San Francisco. I just wasn't a fan of the ever present clouds and/or rain. I went on a couple tours because we needed to kill some time and for all the talk of Apple fanboys, it can't touch Microsoft's impact on Seattle. Every other building of interest was tied to Microsoft, Bill Gates, or the other Microsoft co-founder...can't remember his name, but that dude tossed money at everything.
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