Job Hunting Vs. People

If you are a continued reader of my blog you know that I am unemployed. Please don’t count back to when I first mentioned that because it is way too embarrassing that I am still not working. As much as not working is awesome the no money part of it is pretty terrible so this not working thing is not by choice.

I live in a decent size town. It is not considered a small town but it’s not huge. We have three grocery stores but no movie theater if that helps. I also do not drive so I am limited to looking for jobs in town. This leaves me with mostly customer service options which I have no issues with. We have all had to work retail. I have and will do it again that is fine it doesn’t bother me. What bothers me are the people in this town. I think I might be to harsh on the people in this town its just people I have issues with. Most people are awesome but your always going to run into the jerk who is gonna give everyone else a bad name.

Thankfully the place is big enough there are so many people I don’t know. Unfortunately it is still small enough that I am bound to run into those people I usually avoid. You know the people I am talking about. The people you had some interaction with in the past that you now avoid or pretend you didn’t see when you walked into the grocery store to find them in the fruit aisle. They are the people you turn and walk away from so you don’t get stuck in a twenty minute awkward conversation. Now I am finding that most of the stores I am trying to apply to in town have more then a few of those people I would like to avoid working there or are regular customers.

So my question is when do you let those people who make you feel weird and awkward stop you from applying to a job?

I know there is no answer to this question. If I am being truly honest with myself I would have to admit most people make me feel anxious, awkward or weird so maybe life would be easier if I could just avoid them all. I would do very well in life I could find a job that has no or very little face to face interaction with real people.

Day #10 of Unemployment.

Today is the tenth day I have been officially unemployed. For the first few days off I took full advantage. I began cleaning my house from top to bottom. I made my husband lunches and had dinner waiting for him when he got home from work (which is only fair he is the only employed one in our house now). I was happy at first, now things have changed I feel more like this..

Instead of my plans to basically organize my whole life well trying to find a new job and figure out school I have done the opposite. I have watched more Friday Night Lights then I would care to admit. Instead of using my new Fit Bit which I bought planning to encourage myself to become more fit has been used to count my steps to the grocery store behind my house to buy chocolate croissants.

Now I am off. It is a Friday night and I am twenty five so obviously I am planning to have a hard core Fraiser marathon on netflix. Living the life ya’ll