A Little Position Energy Help Please?
Chris Cottrell
topic, but it's been all emergencies since the start of September,
unfortunately.
So, the promising career is hitting problems straight out of school,
in spite of graduating with honors and as chapter secretary of the
honor society. I spent my last dime to move over 3,000 miles to my
first job, but after 2 months my employer realized he needed someone
with a few years' experience under the belt, so I was laid off.
Okay, no sweat, I've been here before, but the new career is supposed
to have 100% employability, so I should be able to find another job
somewhere in North America, right? But, no; the current economic
situation has had an appalling impact on the prosthetic/orthotic
industry, and there is n-o-t-h-i-n-g available anywhere. And what's
worse, there is double-digit unemployment in my new surrounds, so
there is NO jobs anywhere. I mean the area was depressed before many
other areas were depressed. When there's a part-time job announced, a
cashier job or the like, a huge mob appears, a virtual cattle-call.
So currently I am in a new federal homeless prevention program that is
the only thing between me and the streets. I'm not eligible for
unemployment benefits because I haven't worked enough in the last 5
quarters (because I was in school). My food is entirely from
foodstamps. But I have no cash coming in and no job in sight.
Then I get a response from one of the applications I sent in, a
wonderful job in Seattle at a facility connected with the very
University where I was hoping to finish my education to become a
prosthetist; several of the staff O&P practitioners there teach the
classes I would take. The pay is wonderful. I want this so bad I can
taste both success and defeat.
I am a little panicky these days, and I hide it so well even I don't
know I'm panicky until something like this surfaces and my panick
spills out. I go bi-polar from it, from ecstatic about the
possibility to deep depression that it just won't pan out for me.
I've been on notice for three days that the Director of the facility
will be calling me, but each day she gets swamped by work and has yet
to call. No matter; within two hours of her first email to me I had
already plummeted from pure joyous expectation to deep depression that
this opportunity will pass me by. A little while ago she sent another
email to let me know she is setting tomorrow 9 am PT to phone. I'm
afraid to hope, but I know I have to shake this off.
So my request for positive input: anything that will help me get this
job, that will move me from the brink of homelessness and bankruptcy,
would be very much appreciated. I fully expect to speak with teh
Director tomorrow, so do keep a Good Thought for me.
Thanks.
-Thenie
Songweaver
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> So my request for positive input: anything that will help me get this
> job, that will move me from the brink of homelessness and bankruptcy,
> would be very much appreciated. I fully expect to speak with teh
> Director tomorrow, so do keep a Good Thought for me.
You've got whatever I can muster.
Blessings,
Songweaver
kimmeratsoylentgreenfielddotcom
Steve
"Chris Cottrell" <theni...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Tradya.... 2 1/2 years to go until my home is paid for, and my company has
been down to 1 employee (me), and has been running in the red for the last 3
months. There is no employment here either, other than they occassional part
time for not much more than minimum wage. I feel your pain. fortunately, I
don't have any student loans... being retired military, Uncle Sam paid for
my education. Even before I added business owner to my resume', I was still
way over qualified and over experienced for what the corporate world wanted.
FWIW, I started my company with simple hand tools and built from there. The
beginning was hard, but I made it through. I couldn't find a job, so I
created one for myself, and if the economy ever turns around again, jobs for
a couple of others.
I am leaving on "vacation" Monday morning to spend the holidays with my
family in Northern California.. I can't afford it, an it will take the last
of my cash reserves as well as will probably put significant balances on the
plastic. I will have to shut my company down for abuout 3 weeks to make the
trip, but I keep having feelings that I *NEED* to go if I can afford it or
not. It may or may not be the last time I see my Mother. She is 84, and has
broken both hips over the last five months...
We all have disturbances in our lives... we can only do what we can do. All
I can tell you is don't limit yourself or your options, don't dwell on the
bad stuff, and rejoice in the good. Just remember that the light at the end
of the tunnel is not always the headlight on a freight train.
Thought..... have you asked prospective employers about starting as an
intern to gain the experience you need??
In any case... many positive thoughts you way... I hope that your phone
interview is successful.
Baird Stafford
<9584ff85-0059-4ef4...@y32g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
Chris Cottrell <theni...@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> So my request for positive input: anything that will help me get this
> job, that will move me from the brink of homelessness and bankruptcy,
> would be very much appreciated. I fully expect to speak with teh
> Director tomorrow, so do keep a Good Thought for me.
Good thoughts and energy on their way - it seems to me you've earned
them the *hard* way.
Blessed be,
Baird
who really means it, this time!
--
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice
there is. -Yogi Berra
Baird Stafford
"Steve" <jste...@comcast.net> wrote:
<snip>
> I will have to shut my company down for abuout 3 weeks to make the
> trip, but I keep having feelings that I *NEED* to go if I can afford it or
> not. It may or may not be the last time I see my Mother. She is 84, and has
> broken both hips over the last five months...
Go. If you don't and the worst happens, you'll never forgive yourself.
If you do and nothing happens, you'll have the memory of the visit to
take home with you. My sister could tell you all about both scenarios,
the False Alarm and the Real Thing.
<snip>
Blessed be,
Baird
Gale
<snip>
I fully expect to speak with teh
> Director tomorrow, so do keep a Good Thought for me.
Energy sent.
--
Blessed Be,
Gale
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Yowie
news:9584ff85-0059-4ef4...@y32g2000prd.googlegroups.com
Here's hoping that things work out for you. You've worked so hard and
something good should come out of all that effort.
Can/would you consider Australia or NZ? Our unemployment rate has apprantly
already peaked at a smidge under 6% and is now dropping again.... or so they
say.
Yowie
--
If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many
pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.
Chris Cottrell
> Okay, meant to start back here with a more interesting or useful
> topic, but it's been all emergencies since the start of September,
> unfortunately.
> So my request for positive input: anything that will help me get this
> would be very much appreciated. �I fully expect to speak with the
> Director tomorrow, so do keep a Good Thought for me.
I want to thank one and all for replying here; the encouragement was
very helpful to me, and the potency must have been there, because...
Well, no, I wasn't hired on the spot, but I was moved to take the
right steps, say the right things, and so I seem to be in the top two
for a position that will expand to at least two hires before the end
of March!
The more I hear about this job, the more I am excited by the
opportunity. I mean, this goes beyond just being employed again,
beyond finding something in my field of interest and training, beyond
moving back to an area of the country that I have really warmed to;
this will put me in on the ground floor of a clinic in the process of
reorganization, provide me an opportunity to contribute and help shape
its future configuration, allow me educational access to my first
choice university for advancing in my profession! And I seem to
really click with the new manager!
Basically, if I were to design a dream job for myself, this wouldn't
be it, but ONLY because I wouldn't have the audacity to dream this big
or completely.
Holy-moley, I want this position so incredibly much!!!
But thank you all for affording me enough cosmic push to get me inside
the door. I am hoping the ongoing hiring process will carry on with
the same potency. I have to meet the staff and be ready for the next
interview, probably this week. I'm doing it by Skype, so have
borrowed a webcam-enabled mini laptop for doing that. Don't know
nuthin' 'bout no Skype, so I have to learn it over this weekend.
(Would any of you regulars happen to know/do Skype, to allow me
practice?)
Anyway, I'm hoping this miracle succeeds. I SO want to work there,
live there, revel in being there...
Thanks, folks, for the Good Thought.
Oh, Gale: You got my energy for your boy.
Yowie: I would consider Oz/NZ but if this works out, this is where I
would prefer to be; but thanks. I did actually look outside the US,
but forgot to look in your end of the world; d'oh!
Songweaver: Much obliged.
Steve: You wouldn't want to trade with me; I may still be faced with a
dream job offer that I can't afford to move to. You have a home,
assets, resources, family, a working vehicle and a drivers license.
If you had to move, you have means that can be bent to serve. All I
have is me and thousands of dollars of debt I'm water-treading to keep
from destroying what remains of my credit rating. No, you have
blessings in your life that are unavailable to me. I wish you better
times, as soon as TPTB can wing them to you.
And dear Baird: So very humbled that you would reach out to help me
with the sadness in your own life at the moment. At every turn you
have offered me encouragement, and for that I am very grateful. Swift
healing to you and greater joys.
To Dicon: I am so sorry for your loss, for being uprooted, for being
thrown into starting again. The one thing I've been finding is that
we all can rise to any occasion visited upon us, and that the journey
of our lives seems all about the dynamic unfolding process. Sometimes
the process feels like a gutting, but the next moment brings the
tender or the bittersweet. You have brighter days ahead, and I expect
wonderful things for you. I am sorry I couldn't post when you were in
the thick of all this, but you were on my mind and in my heart daily
during this. I wish you good things.
I miss seeing Jani in here and April Rayne and Shez and Andrew; and I
miss Wood Avens and Francis and so many others generally...
But for those who take notice and care, even if you haven't posted
here, I keep a small Good Thought for you all.
-'Thenie
who can't seem to work out how to get the Send From line to read
"'Thenie"
Baird Stafford
<3f6dbdb8-59e6-4e97...@j4g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
Chris Cottrell <theni...@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> -'Thenie
> who can't seem to work out how to get the Send From line to read
> "'Thenie"
I am not familiar with the newsreader you're using (the modbot cuts off
many of the original lines in your original headers to substitute its
own), but is there in the preferences or one of the menus a button for
"Personalities?" That seems to be the buzzword used by many
newsreaders, browsers and the like - and if you put "'Thenie" there is
*should* (note the conditional!) do what you need.
Wood Avens
<theni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I want to thank one and all for replying here; the encouragement was
>very helpful to me, and the potency must have been there, because...
>
>Well, no, I wasn't hired on the spot, but I was moved to take the
>right steps, say the right things, and so I seem to be in the top two
>for a position that will expand to at least two hires before the end
>of March!
[snip]
Very good! I'll continue sending positive thoughts.
(Francis is still around, too.)
--
Wood Avens
Good wine improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.
spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @
Steve
<buncha stuff snipped>
>-'Thenie
> who can't seem to work out how to get the Send From line to read
> "'Thenie"
>
Positive energies coming your direction.
Corvus
> I am leaving on "vacation" Monday morning to spend the holidays with my
> family in Northern California.. I can't afford it, an it will take the last
> of my cash reserves as well as will probably put significant balances on the
> plastic. I will have to shut my company down for abuout 3 weeks to make the
> trip, but I keep having feelings that I *NEED* to go if I can afford it or
> not. It may or may not be the last time I see my Mother. She is 84, and has
> broken both hips over the last five months...
Those instincts are not to be ignored.
I have regrets over the passings of both my parents that time has done
little to erase, and the regrets were mainly about blinding myself to
the urgency and reality of what was to come.
It's all too easy to immerse yourself in business or work as
displacement, or to fall into the "just one more..." trap.
This is about doing what's right by your family, but it's also about
doing what's right by your future self. However you envisage the process
of death, and what's after, it's a one-way street. You can't reverse it
to say that last goodbye that you missed.
Go, and take peace with you.
Corvus
April Rayne
> I miss seeing Jani in here and April Rayne and Shez and Andrew; and I
> miss Wood Avens and Francis and so many others generally...
>
> But for those who take notice and care, even if you haven't posted
> here, I keep a small Good Thought for you all.
>
>
> -'Thenie
Bless your cotton socks Thenie but I've been sorely missing everyone here
too. Never thought I'd see the day when WE actually missed each other!!
Guess we became family over the years, the ones to whom each other turns in
time of stress and need, if only for the comfort of familiarity.
A very helpful chap spent three hours here last night sorting out all my
puter problems, and there were many, not least my inability to receive
newsgroups when my server changed to using giganews some months back. Very
first thing I then did was re subscribe to arwm and download 48067 messages.
Haven't a clue how I remove all the old stuff, right now I'm just delighting
in catching up with everyone's news. Maybe delighting is not the right word
as so many of you seem to going through such a tough time. My heart goes out
to you one and all.
Hugs abounding
April R
Chris Cottrell
>
> Bless your cotton socks Thenie but I've been sorely missing everyone here
> too. Never thought I'd see the day when WE actually missed each other!!
> Guess we became family over the years, the ones to whom each other turns in
> time of stress and need, if only for the comfort of familiarity.
>
> A very helpful chap spent three hours here last night sorting out all my
> puter problems, and there were many, not least my inability to receive
> newsgroups when my server changed to using giganews some months back. Very
> first thing I then did was re subscribe to arwm and download 48067 messages.
> Haven't a clue how I remove all the old stuff, right now I'm just delighting
> in catching up with everyone's news. Maybe delighting is not the right word
> as so many of you seem to going through such a tough time. My heart goes out
> to you one and all.
>
> Hugs abounding
So very glad to see you here!
I had checked Google the other day, and your last post was 1 Dec 2008,
so of course I began to worry for you.
Looking forward to fun times in here in the future; welcome home!
-'Thenie