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…
Yes, that’s right. The company that sent my job (along with over 100 others) jobs to India is interviewing me today. Not for the same position specifically, more for a supervisor position. My job would be to go over all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wow, who would have thunk (I know not me) that the first, the VERY FIRST job interview that I’d get after losing my job in February would be with the same company who had let me go. But as I’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the past I’ve been an Art Director and a Senior Designer, both were positions that required some supervision of others but they were still very creative positions. If this job is (offered to me) more of a strictly supervision[…]↓ 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…
Whenever I talk with people who’ve never been to Pittsburgh or the Southwestern Pennsylvania area and they ask me what they should see or go to while here, I always point out this area. If not just to see Falling[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everyone has things they’re knowledgeable about and that being said, they have things they know little to nothing about as well. For me, it’s plants and flowers. I can’t tell the difference between flowers and weeds. All I know about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry, it’s another depressing comic, I know, I know. Yes, it’s great that my fellow co-workers got jobs and weren’t out of work too long, but why can’t I get a job too? Hell, I’ve applied to 61 jobs and[…]↓ 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…
I had hoped to have a chance to talk to the office manager. Not in connection with my past job or the layoff, no, nothing to do with that. I was hoping to ask him if he had any connections[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…