Now what am I going to do?

Two months since my last post. The reason for this lag in content is twofold.

First, on Nov. 30th I was involved in a car accident. My Honda Civic (boy do I miss that car) was struck by a gentleman running a red light. Just prior to the collison, the though "I wonder how many times people run this light" crossed my mind. The answer, frequently.

The car was totalled but I managed to escape serious injury (some brusing and a big bump on the head).

A couple of weeks following this incident I was told that I was going to be laid off from work in January. So as it stands right now I am in full job hunt mode. Little income and few prospects have made for a dark start to the year.

It is the worst time of year to start looking for work. Now that businesses are past their year end buget crisies they are beginniing to hire again. But, the mid-year college graduates are also looking for work. A guy with a MA in Religion and BS in History is not going to be at the top of the list. One would think that experience would play a key factor but thus far it has not. Managment, people skills, willingness to learn, and a varitey of ablities from teaching to being comfortable with a wide range of computer programs and web/database languages only goes so far. Companies are looking for, well, I do not know what. Apparently not me at the moment.

Life goes on and the bills keep coming. I hope that the job front will open up in the future but at the moment things are tight. A friend of mine who was in a similar situation years ago said, "Sometimes it seems like you can't even get a job picking up pieces of paper off of the street." Right now this rings very true in my life. Maybe next week will be different.