Digging up bones.

Just for fun I decided to see how long it took to get a response the first time I interviewed with the county [a little over two weeks] so that's what I'm looking at.

Also ended up reading a lot of old posts from last year. Kind of depressing---the general pattern is "Oh, wow, a job interview, maybe this is finally the end of my joblessness!" "Just waiting to hear..." "Nope, they turned me down." And then a spot of despair that lasts until the next interview. About the only fun thing is when I wrote about books.

Only real change in my posts is that I'm on the final tier of unemployment benefits, so unless there's a miracle that would fly in the face of everything that has happened up until now [that is, the creation of a new level of extended unemployment benefits], I'm done with benefits in a few months. That's good and bad. It's tiring to have to fill out the paperwork, having to reject part time opportunities and temping opportunities because the requirement is to seek full-time work. The wages here are lower so I have had to bypass jobs that might have been okay but just didn't pay as much as unemployment. If I'm still jobless by then, I'll hit the temp agencies and hope to get enough to at least pay for most of my expenses. I still have faith that something will work out in time. I think if I hadn't been getting interviews this entire time, I'd feel less optimistic.