Category Women
Pick Me! Pick Me!
Wednesday I had an interview. I answered all the questions asked of me expertly. Asked the interviewer some pretty good questions as well. Actually had stumped her with a few of them. Came across that I was an authority on how to raise funds in this challenging economy. And during said interview, I felt as […]
The Value of Friendship
Jobs these days seem awfully hard to come by. There are times when I fell so utterly unemployable, like not a soul cares to hire me. I indulge in these pity parties sometimes, not thinking about what I do have. A reminder that there are better days would sure be welcome sometimes. I decided to […]
Crashing Burnout
Interviews are stress bombs. You hunger for the opportunity to nab one. You prepare for hours, days to do well on one. On the day of, you feel a pit in your stomach. What will they ask? What will I say? Am I desperate? Overeager? Overqualified, under qualified? And when it ends, you stress even […]
Mis-Match
One morning, before I perused the job posts and tried to find something I could apply to, I went to my dating app to see what action there might be. A man “liked” me and he seemed halfway decent. He was a writer, like me, and he played poker, also, like me. We were about […]
Among Friends
I like to entertain. Thing is, I don’t do enough of it. Seems like no one else does either, so if there’s a fun gathering of friends needing to happen, I’m usually the one throwing the party. Last month was my birthday. I wasn’t thrilled about it, mainly because I’m unemployed and wasn’t exactly in […]
To Ease The Mind
Whirling like a hamster in a wheel, my mind has been nonstop. I can’t sleep. I’m filled with anxiety. Overwhelmed. I’ve been out of work before, but this time’s been brutal. The amount of information thrown at me has been too much to bear. Get your LinkedIn page updated. Oh, not like that, like this. […]
To Remain Positive
It’s tough to remain positive these days. Personally, I’m feeling really rough. I’ve been applying for jobs since November, when I found out that my position was going to be eliminated. My boss did his best to keep me on as long as he could, bless him. But now it’s been five weeks without a […]
My Friend, AI
She looks pretty cool, doesn’t she? That’s my new friend, AI-mie, the newly-generated woman that the WordPress image generator drew up for me. She totally looks like she has it going on, in a somewhat decaying urban setting. Ready for action, AI-mie will jump into any fray, with a cool head and a thirst for […]
Tacking On Another Year
Another year has flown the coop, and I feel like a bird with clipped wings. Although I feel great and still can pass for looking pretty good, I’m not sure about the road ahead. This is the time when most people my age start planning their retirement. I’m in the unenviable position of never being […]
Not This Again…
The writing was on the wall, but I was so busy that I didn’t notice until it was too late. My boss and I had quite a conversation on our weekly meetup call. We both work remotely, so every Monday we’d have a half-hour talk about tackling the projects I’d been assigned. On this particular […]
Confessions of A Middle-Age Woman 