First Day of Unemployment

Interesting.....

I woke up this morning and for the first time in eighteen years, I didn't have a job to go to.  My first "career" type job started on June 15, 1992. I was fresh out of college and ready to take on the world.  As I recall, it was a pretty tough job marked back then too.  According to the miseryindex, in June of 1992, the unemployment rate was 7.8%.  Hmm... Today, its 9.7%.  Maybe the job market is a bit tighter now.
There were no entries the past few days because I actually had some work to finish up for my (now former) employer, but at 5:00pm on Friday, May 14, 2010, I walked out the office door not knowing where my next paycheck would come from.

Enough of the self pity

That's just not me. Like I said earlier, I knew the risks when I started this job. I learned some stuff, contributed some stuff, got paid (very well), and have now been sent on my way.

This past weekend

My wife and I got together my honey-do list over the weekend. I'm sitting down now to coordinate my job-searching activities with the home improvement/maintenance tasks I've agreed to. I've already started painting my middle-child's room, fulfilling a promise to her from a couple of months ago. Its a color called pink-salmon. Three daughters, three shades of pink in their bedrooms.

The Plan

So here's the plan. This week, I send out my resume to everyone that contacted me last week via LinkedIn.com. I also contact every recruiter I know, know of, or can find, and send him/her a resume.
To work this in with my honey-do list, I'm going to spend the mornings on job-seeking tasks, and the afternoons on home maintenance. That list entails the following:

• Finish painting (today)
• Open the pool (tomorrow)
• Remove old, worn caulk from front-of-the-house windows (Wednesday)
• Re-caulk front-of-the-house-windows (Thursday)
• Paint around the windows and shutters (Friday)

By the end of this week, I should have some in-person interviews scheduled for next week.  I wonder if I should get a new suit.