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[scarfman]

I'm no good at hunting for a job while I actually have one. As it happens, that obstacle will be gone after next Tuesday.

I've mentioned in passing in this space that on Veterans Day the place where I work announced to its employees it was closing at the beginning of March, which a week ago was bumped about ten days early. It's a mixed curse. There's a lot I'm not happy with about the position. It's telephone customer service, and the shift I'm on is 05:30-14:00. I took the shift so I could go to classes in the afternoons, but I am not a morning person. There's a quota to meet for not creating service visit orders, and I have difficulty meeting it. And I think I'd be better off in a position where I don't spend all the time in a cubicle without any contact with others but phone calls from people I'll never talk to again; I need to get back into office work until I zonker into computer science. But given how much I hate jobhunting, if not for the closing I'd've stayed in this position until I'd got fired for the service job quota issue (might not have lasted this long). I ought've left my last job before I did, too.

qtrhorserider has been more agitated about this than I, at least until recently when she researched out that there are affordable options for health insurance if I shouldn't find a new position right away. For "right away" read "after the separation package money runs out"; they did offer a nice incentive for those of us who have stuck it out to the end, including insurance coverage for the time that the separation pay lasts if we send the payments to the insurance company ourselves.

Well, I say I'm not agitated about it, but the last week or so I've had this twitch in my lower right eyelid. That happens to me occasionally, and I suspect it's stress- and sleep-deprivation- related. Actually the only reason I'm writing about it here is because I'm curious whether it's always the same eyelid and want to look back here the next time it happens.

Comments

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

Really sorry to hear that you're going through this particular challenge; my other half is still looking for work after a similar situation. Wishing you the best!

[billfl.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that, man. Good luck with the Search.

[kaffy_r]

All the best in your search, and I'm so sorry you're having to deal with this. Our company has just fired 10 editors and negotiated yet another round of buyouts for unionized reporters/photogs/copy-desk people, and I think we are all suffering exactly the kind of low level stress you're talking about.