Job Search Continues

Last week saw a flurry of activity as I was spurred to act by a job posting I got via a yahoo list. It is for a benefits assistant at Osram/Sylvania, the lighting company. They are looking for someone with retirement plans experience – AND customer service experience. I worked for three days on my resume, with Joanne’s help. She also contacted Janice Mann, who was a benefits director at Keane. Together they critiqued and tweaked my resume. I also asked around to see if anyone had knowledge, and I had just linked up with Arnie Fertig from TENG – he asked me to send him my resume, and that he might have a contact there (I don’t think he did). He critiqued my resume also. This went on for a couple of days and then I just had to send it in – the posting was already a week old. I’m sure nothing will come of it, but it was good exercise to rework my resume.


I told Joanne – and this is the truth – that all the discussions about all the things I could do – writing, editing, copyediting, singing, radio, etc.. just seems to have paralyzed me. I told her I’m lazy and of course she says that’s not true, but the truth is, I’d much rather go into an office, do my job, and go home, than be self-employed and trying to drum up business for myself constantly. Every time I see a job that I could commute to easily, I get excited. I don’t think it’s the corporate world exactly, that I hate, although that is part of it. But having been unemployed a lot lately, I’m not afraid of it. I’ve never actually quit a job, although I’ve come close many times, but I know that if I take a job and am not a good fit for it or I hate it, it won’t be the end of the world.

Also got COBRA paperwork in the mail after calling Group Dynamics to find out about it. I will only have to pay $184. That is so great. I also got a bump in unemployment benefits by $25 a week, and it was retroactive for February. It seems really silly – there are people in much worse financial situations than I am, but I am happy to get what I can. I am still trying to figure out what I want to do, but in the words of recruiter Jill Yanofsky, “there are no jobs out there!!!” There are, actually, but nothing I qualify for, or else I'm quite I’m overqualified.