Tag Archives: Life
Of Sound Mind
I haven’t written in ages. I haven’t been able to. Why? This year has been extremely challenging. Lots thrown at me. Tested my abilities on just about everything. And in the end, I, well, lost it. It all started when I lost my job on January 31, 2025. Liked, but not loved what I was […]
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 […]
My Summer Sanctuary
Even though the calendar says summer won’t arrive for a few weeks (unofficially), or until June (officially), the season’s begun for me. And not a moment too soon! At my social club, I have a small room where I can go to get away from it all. The club is located in a beautiful, bucolic […]
The Return, or, Indifference
I’d been anticipating this situation for months. As we all know, expectations often don’t match with reality. Sometimes, things work out quite differently. Over the weekend, my social club thew a party, celebrating the imminent return of warmer weather. Spring arrived, with Memorial Day only a handful of weekends away. Lounge chairs sat in neat […]
This Job’s a Scam
I’ve been looking since November for a job, and even more so after my last day at the end of January. I’ve never lost hope that perhaps the right opportunity would come along. After attending webinars about how to update my resume and cover letter so that AI can read it, creating a list of […]
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. […]
Confessions of A Middle-Age Woman 