Almost

I've been away for a while, are you surprised?! My mom is doing much better and I decided to come back a week early. Going home for two months and living off of my very generous parents was a tough dose of reality. I'm ready to become independent of their generosity and "strong suggestions" about my life. haha!

I've hit up the job search more intensely because I've become desperate to start making money. I'm no longer searching for full time administrative positions because it seems I'm not qualified enough for certain jobs and then too qualified to be an intern or an entry level hire. I'm still looking at some administrative positions, but mostly in the non profit sector where positions are usually part time and don't pay so much. I've started applying for sales positions at the local shopping malls, yes shopping malls where people with money spend it. So far I've been to two interviews for one retail position and am waiting to hear if I "made the cut."

While in Tennessee many people asked me what I do all day since I don't have a job. Well, ya'll are in for a treat because I'm about to tell ya. Today I woke up  around 10AM, had breakfast, and surfed the web looking for a job until noon. Then I took a little trip to Office Max to buy some expandable folders to organize all my documents. This took me about an hour and I made myself a yummy salad and roasted up a delicious pesto basil flavored sausage from Trader Joe's and had these for lunch. While I cooked and ate I went back on the internet and searched for jobs. By 3:30ish I got a phone call from a friend who needed a ride to work. By this time I found a total of three, yes just three, jobs that I'm qualified to apply for and sent the links to myself to apply for tomorrow. I left the house at 4:30ish to drop my friend off at work and got back 45 minutes later. By now my eyes are sick of staring at the computer screen so I decided to visit a friend in another neighborhood. From 6ish to 9ish I hung out with my friends and had dinner. I got back to the house, showered, had a friendly chat with my housemates, got back on the internet to search for jobs and here we are, 12:55AM.

In the midst of this very boring day, an exciting event occurred. It happened while I drove my friend to his workplace. I received a phone call inviting me to a group interview at the local Pier 1 store, you know the one that sells affordable furniture. Yes, believe it people, my four year college degree in Business Administration and two years volunteer experience in Bolivia with Peace Corps has gotten me an interview at Pier 1 for a part time sales associate position. Now you could read the above sentence however you like it, but honestly, I'm very glad to have gotten the phone call.

I know it sounds weird, but at this point, all I can think about is the big picture goal of me moving out here. I want to become and official resident of the state and eventually go to school here. There is no other reason, so while working at the local Pier 1 isn't the most glamorous job in the world, it will allow me to pay taxes for the state and qualify me to pay in state tuition. I just want go to school for a decent price and try my hardest to make my dream job a reality. So many people have told me that I'm absolutely crazy for even thinking about starting school all over again at 27 years old, but I know I will regret it for the rest of my life if I don't try. I'm nuts, absolutely nuts, but I've taken hold of the reigns of my life. Oddly enough for this little bit of it, I seem to have some control of where I'm going, which is a nice feeling.