So my life has been full of sitting about for the past year and moping about employment. I spent an atrocious amount of time looking for work and submitting resumes and applications everywhere that I could find one.
No bites.
My final tally puts me at over 100 attempts to work and no one was interested. I have applied to be a janitor, a barrista, a tree cutter (which given my lankiness and vertical dexterity, I have to assume I would have excelled at) a temp, various secretarial jobs, an English Tutor, and an English Teacher. The company I interviewed with to teach English in Japan was shady.
Caribou Coffee interviewed me twice and then wasn't interested.
Brutal.
One day my dad saw that I was looking particularly dejected in the car. 'Lincoln, you know this has nothing to do with you. You are talented and there is work out there for you. No one can get a job now, especially in Michigan.' I will spare you the rest of the conversation.
The truth was that I had been buying into valuing myself based on my employment status, which meant that I was taking a year long dump on myself. I didn't even know it was happening until that moment.
At the beginning of May I landed a part time job at The Home Depot which helped out some and then mid-June I started working at a day care facility. I'm pulling down about 65 hours right now. So far, I'm managing it. I'm sleepier than usual, I don't last much past midnight these days but that's ok.
Whilst all this is going on, I have gone through the interview process with UMICH for a position in the Admissions Dept and I am waiting to hear back from them. The job would be really great, I would get to brag on my alma mater all day and welcome a whole new class of Wolverines to the Greatest University out there. I WILL do this if I get the job:
Guaranteed. I will tape it and repost the new video.
Remember kid from
10 things I hate about you
watch his film called Brick.
Now I'm going to read The Abolition of Man. Who doesn't need a little CS Lewis on a warm Sunday.
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