I ended up not getting the job.  It’s so frustrating to have made it to the final round and not get hired.  I wonder why they decided not to hire me for the position.  Was I overqualified?  Did I say the wrong thing?  Wear the wrong outfit?  But, the editor in chief called me personally and told me they were a big fan and they would like to hear my voice on their website—as a freelance blogger.  I have yet to hear the details, so I don’t know if they want me to do it full-time or not.  If it yields a steady paycheck, I’ll be relieved.  As the Rolling Stones song goes: “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need…”

Whew.  I can breathe a sigh of relief for two more months because my unemployment was about to run out.  I had no idea what I was going to do.  I just tried not to think about it.

So I’ve been going through the interview process for a job I really want, and I’ve made it to the final round after taking an edit test, interviewing with the hiring editors—and then the final with the editor-in-chief.  I’m so close and this job would combine so much of my skill set and interests.  I met with the editor-in-chief last Thursday and he told me they would be making the decision Friday.  I waited and waited, and soon Friday came and went with no word!  Now I have to wait until Monday!  I figure it’s one of three things:

A. They hired somebody else and have left me in the dark about that.

B. The decision making process is taking longer than expected.

C. They made a decision, but HR has yet to create the offer letter if they are indeed the messenger.

The wait is driving me CRAZY!  I thought yesterday might be my last day of unemployment so I did something I don’t usually do.  I sat around and watched TV and napped all day, waiting anxiously for a call, but NOTHING.  My friend told me not to worry because I would have heard something either way.  I’m really hoping this is the end of being unemployed.  I miss working hard.  If I don’t get it, back to the interview and applying game.  Wish me luck!

“You want to be unemployed.”

-My dad

Dear Dad,

Contrary to your belief, I don’t want to be unemployed. In fact, I would love nothing more than to have a job to go to Monday through Friday, or hell, even Tuesday through Saturday. I’m really sick of living off of unemployment and being so poor that I can’t afford to eat or buy anything. I would really like to work hard and use my brain and make money, hopefully at a job that provides health insurance so I can visit a doctor and not have to worry about going bankrupt if I get hurt or sick. Believe me dad, if I could, I would work. I would work every day! Unfortunately, the economy sucks, nobody is hiring, and if they are, there are usually 200+ applicants I’m competing with.

Would somebody who wants to be unemployed apply to numerous jobs every day? Would somebody who wants to be unemployed try to network with everybody she could? Next time, you should think twice before you say something like that.

Signed,
Your daughter who wants more than anything to be employed