This discouraging feeling isn’t just from my current unemployed situation. As you can see, back in 2016 when I was in the middle of my unemployed time, from 1/2015 thru November of 2017 (when I was only in my 50’s)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maybe it’s because I can be somewhat anal, I’ve kept a written record of every single job I’ve applied to since my first application, right after my job was sent to India. I realize that because of the pandemic unemployment[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That’s right. The company that took my job away, five months ago, is looking to fill a position and yes, I’m going to apply for it. Why? Well, I enjoyed my job and I really enjoyed working with my co-workers.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are some days, like today, where my depression just sort of eats me up. Maybe a lot of this hit me today because last night I had a good time hanging out with friends, friends who were making a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There have been a few days over these last five months where I’ve enjoyed my current situation. That I can sleep whenever and however long I like, sit and draw all day, go out to the park and now the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I suppose I should be encouraged by this phone call. Since I’ve been searching for a job this year, I’ve never had a recruiter call me back and have me speak (interview) with a manager or superior. That’s a good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not going to add anything more to this comic but will instead bring up something that in the big picture doesn’t matter, though I think it’s fairly unique. Since I began these daily, diary comics in February of 2010[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With each questionable step that I encountered with this “job” I realized that something wasn’t kosher. Had they asked me for any personal information along the way, like my Social Security number, I wold have shut it down fast. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To be fair I didn’t work with him that long. He’d only become my department supervisor (my third in two years) only several months before Siemens sent our jobs to India and all of ur conversations were cordial and professional.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Job searching online is both frustrating and many times just fruitless. What I learned at my last job at Siemens, and what I talked about in previous comics in 2019, that when I went from contract worker to full time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…