Unemployment is still the worst :(

To tide me over in my boredom, my mum has produced, in a folder 10cm thick, a compilation of the year’s worth of emails I sent home while I was in Italy in 2001. My dad printed out every email and put it in a folder! Who knew?

Lessons learned after several hours poring over it:
- I used to be a lot more interesting!
- I used to have much more sass?
- I miss travel a lot :(

Still need a job. There were no ASO2s to apply for this week. Possibly going to apply for local gov job where the job is to scan things, and write down what was scanned. Or, possibly going to try to dream bigger.

Hahahaha.

What else… someone let me know that FreeRice.com now lets you practise foreign language vocabulary (matching words with English synonyms) as well as your English vocabulary. It turns out that there’s a subjects page where not only can you pick a foreign language, but you can also choose to practice English grammar, chemistry, geography, maths and art history. I would recommend this site to anyone!

This morning I dropped Josh off at work as part of the new Claire’s Unemployed Chauffeur Service. Now I am at home eating frozen peas and writing job applications :(

Edit: And this!

45.7°C on Wednesday! Only 42°C today, phew.

My job interview was yesterday. It wasn’t a terrible interview as far as I could tell, but the receptionist told me that they’d had at least ten people through, so… not very good odds :(

Meanwhile, I have encountered the primary peril of casual employment and been laid off from my current job :( Today is my last day :( I am going out for lunch with my managers and also going to have a big cake… it’s pretty sad though, since this is the best job I’ve ever had by just about every measure.

So the job-seeking is full time starting next week.

Last night, my friend Marcie took me to see a movie about a dog where the dog dies at the end. THIS IS NOT WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR IN A FRIENDSHIP :@

Currently enjoying Cake Wrecks! E.g. bad cakes, awesome cakes, awkward cakes, and reaaaally disturbing cakes :)

Anyway. If I can pass a typing test this week, I have a job interview! Not in DECS, but elsewhere in the government. Yay!

Applying for jobs you don’t really want is way too depressing.

I am sick again :( But it is just a cold! Colds are a non-intimidating type of sick, woo. I am prepared to put much of my recent ill-health down to anxiety and its side-effects. Needing a job is stressful :( I have been feeling a bit frustrated with myself for not making smarter career decisions eight years ago. If I’d been more pragmatic back in year twelve, I could be doing something much better now than wafting around, 25 years old, in consequential debt to the government, and not really qualified for anything that I want to do?

Have a plan, kids.

I think if I could manage to get employed in something that was kind of using my degrees (at least one of them?) and felt somewhat like a real job, I would actually feel okay about most things in my life? But it’s kind of a big thing to have lacking.

Anyway I am applying tonight for a year-long contract in the DECS policy directorate. I would like to get it.

Today is the first day in what must be months that I don’t feel sick or pain in hardly any way at all. Success!!

Unfortunately I am still all stressed out and angsty :(

Provided I pass everything I have handed up, I have completed the requirements for my (latest) degree now.

Still no idea what I am doing with the rest of my life :(

Talking to Tim on MSN today, I managed to articulate what I am actually looking for in a career:
- it should be meaningful
- it should pay well
- it should not be very hard or take up all my time

I do not think this job is a real job!

IDK, the three months I did of full time data entry last year have made me hyperaware of the need to not get my soul sucked. This is mainly what I am trying to avoid. It is all a bit scary.

Also apparently I am all quiet and frowny lately. I am sorry, this is why :(

Hum. So my intention is to move out of home fairly early next year, depending on my employment status/location. It turns out I have three separate human entities expressing interest in moving out with me! Yay options, but… I am going to HURT AT LEAST TWO FEELINGS! :(

This weekend I was not at home from 8am Friday until 11:15pm Sunday. I am tired and my homework is Not Done At All.

Also I am all weird and sick. So I was way stroppy at work today. My bosses were trying to give me work all afternoon and I was like NO!! Too busy!! Leave me alone!! and… they did? Then it got to 4:30pm and I was like… oh. I am quite comfortably almost done? And I was out by 5:01! I need to be a bitch more often! Or be nicer, and not get fired.