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Oh, the ups and downs!

This has been a week, and as of right now it is officially over. Yay!!! It seems like from day to day, or sometimes even hour to hour or minute to minute, I go from great day to shitty day, good day to sucky day. It's been a very long week.

This morning in the mail, I got the strangest rejection letter ever. The gist of the letter was, "We wanted to let you know that we can't find anyone to hire for this position. Your application packet was very nice, but we're not interviewing you. Ever. We'll let you know if anything comes up that we would hire you for." Yeah, like I want to work for you now, assholes. Anyhow, I'm not sure what they were looking for. I exceeded every requirement in the job posting. Several people looked at my application packet and thought I knocked it out of the park. So to have them say "We're not going to even interview you but we're very distressed that we can't fill this job." was a big WTF? However, I talked to a few friends about the situation, and they recommended that I call the hiring manager (who I was pretty buddy-buddy with on the phone) and ask her for feedback on why I wasn't selected for an interview. She seemed pretty nice, so I'm hoping she'll offer me constructive criticism. Or she'll dance because there's really no rhyme or reason to why I didn't even get an interview. I'm just wondering what they're really looking for. If any hiring managers read this blog, I have one suggestion for you: Figure that out BEFORE you post the job and or start to interview. If you don't know what you're looking for, you're not going to know if you find it.

But anyhow, I found the silver lining on that cloud. And besides, it was only one job. There are lots more where that came from. It's their loss.

So, I can move that situation from the minus column to the plus column. If only my day could've stayed on that positive note. But seriously, let's think about how my life's been going lately...

I get home and there's an email from the Department of Job and Family Services saying there's a problem with my unemployment claim. I am going to have to call Monday morning before I know anything for sure. At this point I'm going to give folks the benefit of the doubt as to why there is a problem. We'll just say that perhaps some paperwork was filled out improperly that would lead the DJFS to think that I might've been fired from my job for non-work-related issues. That's a little different than getting laid off, so I'm supposed to send a questionnaire back to DJFS telling them if I understood my employers policies if I'd ever been written up for disciplinary issues, etc. I am sure it's a clerical error, because ALL of the paperwork that I signed at my exit interview said that I was being laid off. And I never had any type of disciplinary issues whatsoever. But if it's not, I think it's safe to say that it's not going to be a pretty situation. My mom suggested that if I call the DJFS on Monday and they tell me that I'm not laid off, that I should just get dressed and show up at work and say, "Hey guys, the unemployment office said you told them I wasn't laid off." I'm thinking that I'd probably prove my point that way...

Other than that, life is going well. I am trying to keep up my positive outlook, but I am still battling my seasonal affective disorder. I've toyed with the idea of taking St. John's Wort, which is supposed to help, but I've heard it wreaks havoc with other meds I'm on. I guess I'll have to look into that. I could alleviate the problem with light therapy, but I can't afford a dawn simulator right now, although it is on sale.

posted by Laura at 11:02 PM