amber_lux's Journal: Ag Pleez

Cloud Cover: 95 percent

Still unemployed. Only thing that even resembled an interview this week was from an idiot who thinks I have a series 7 licence.He is an idiot. My resume says nothing about being a being a stockbroker, or working in the insurance field. Much less claim that I have any of the licences requried for that field.

Submitted between 20 and 30 resumes. One call back. I returned the phone, to get voicemail. I'll try them again tomorrow.

I'm not sure why I even bother submitting resumes anymore. The temp agencies I used to work through are not even looking at people that used to work for them. Addeco was impressed with my typing speed --- 67 wpm, and my scores on Word. B Everything they have requires somebody who has done one thing for the last umpteen years. My experience is too varied for them to place me.

Do I go pitch a product I do not believe in, using a method I find unethical, simply to get money to pay rent? Buddhism, oddly enough, with its concept of "Right Livelihood", does admit that it is better to earn a wage, even if doing the wrong thing, that to not be working. The idea is that by working, one can look after one's dependents. The other half of that is that is acceptable, only until one can change to a livelihood that does not harm others.

So can I justify doing the wrong thing, in the name of taking care of self and dependents? I am having a very hard time twisting that one thru. Not sure that I can.

This hasn't made me feel any better, but there is a place up the road that is apparantly hiring, that I have not applied to. Not Right Livelihood, but still. The guy who manages practices his beliefs. Which is one good thing.

Wind under Thy Wings