Re: I guess it's my turn
Johne Cook <[email protected]>
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Nod. I remember the 'out of work' nightmares. They were the worst. Johne Cook | http://raygunrevival.com | http://authorculture.blogspot.com |* * On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Lance McLain <lance-X3DuywwxauBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote: > Seemed like forever. From the first day I decided to make it my job to > find a job. I literally worked every weekday all day looking for work. I > got up early, got dressed up for work and went in my office and closed the > door until 5-6pm. Every day. Sent out dozens of customized resumes, called > everyone I could, kept job journals, searched the web, did everything I > could. I haven't been that focused in a long long time. I was driven by > terror. It was weird. The weekends were really rough...all I could think > of was "not another weekend" without work. The uncertainty was unbearable > and I couldn't do anything about it. It was a real out of control psychotic > episode. Ha! I'm not sure what it was this time, maybe it was my age. > Maybe it was I couldn't hide my "out of control"-edness from my kids > anymore, they being teenagers now. I've been in between jobs before but I > experienced nothing like this. I couldn't sleep and when I did I had > nightmares. Funny thing is, I've never been more financially secure in my > life than I was when this happened, yet I've never been more terrified. > Maybe it was all those lessons and movies of the depression and dust bowl > we had shown our kids. Maybe it was filling my brain with too many worst > case scenarios...I don't know. But I've been driven. And now I feel really > exhausted. Think I'm going to take the day off tomorrow! > > regards, > -Lance > > > On Mar 22, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Peter T. Chattaway wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Johne Cook wrote: >> >>> Sounds great, Lance. That was really very fast, all things considered. >>> You're a stud! ; ) >>> >> >> Yeah, fast indeed! Congrats! >> >> -- >> dadl-ot mailing list >> http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot >> > > > -- > dadl-ot mailing list > http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot > -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot