Thirteen things I can do now that I'm unemployed (fired yesterday).Set the alarm clock and ignore it. Just let it go on beep-beep-beeping, getting all upset and flustered. You know how those little yappy alarm clocks sound.
Miss the bus. At the time I would have left for work today I stood at the window and watched the bus leave, without me on it!
Catch up on important things like the book I've been reading, my web domain that has been sadly neglected for ages (thatgrrl.ca), fix up the new domain for this blog and figure out why it doesn't always load up the first time.
Get out for more abandoned farm house photos. Find the locations I have saved in notes, on Flickr and in my email from others.
Check into the idea of making Word Grrls a blog with ads, a money making blog. I know it's not what I had planned or thought I would do. But, maybe I can run a bit of this and that and not have it feel like a spam pit or ad farm.
Call some other poor fool working as tech support for a company and just shoot the breeze awhile. Funny how often people did that. I don't think they knew we were rated on how quickly we handled calls. My rating was pretty good, not the best but it wasn't something they complained about.
Colour my hair again. It's about time for it to get done. I can see the difference in colour in the new hair. Also need to do laundry, including the bedsheets. All those things I've usually left for the weekends when I had more time.
Start that Best of the Web work or get going with it at least. They say it pays after the first thousand sites. I'm not near to that but could be, now that I'm not getting sucked dry at work and coming home wtih massive headaches.
More drawing and doodling and cartooning. Doodle Week Summer is coming up for July.
Have lunch and dinner during rather than skipping them and coming home after 10:00 to eat dinner late. I can even do some cooking. I miss making lasagna and such things. Not as much fun to just crack open a can of soup.
Eventually I will look for some other work. Not yet. I'm giving myself this weekend off. Seems my sister is even going to be dropping by on Saturday. If I were still working I would have missed seeing her at all.
Watching the soaps, catching up on them. Have them on today and don't know what they are talking about. Seems someone died but so far I haven't noticed anyone missing.
Writing. Really, actually getting something finished. I made plans to write a guest post this month but have not even started anything. I have an article as a draft about rural exploration but it's in need of work. Lots of other writing which is half done to not started beyond the idea stage.
14 comments:
Well, getting fired certainly sucks, but you seem to have a good attitude about it. Enjoy your downtime and work on polishing up your resume.
Good luck with finding new work -- it's challenging, but doable.
Margaret
Sorry to hear you lost your job, but it seems like you will be keeping yourself busy catching up on all those things we leave till another a day when we are working. Good luck finding a new job, I am sure you will find one soon :)
Getting fired's no fun, but you've got lots of fun things to do in the place of your old job. Enjoy and relax a little. Good for you for not letting it get ya down!
Every cloud has a silver lining if you look for it :) At times looking for a job can be dispiriting to say the least, but you'll get there in the end, just enjoy the time off while you can!
Yeah, getting fired sucks.
But another Doodle Week?!!?!! Oh yay!!!
Gosh, it's so easy to make me happy. LOL
Best of luck. Hope you enjoy your free time!
Oh well...their loss! And anyway 'as one door closes another opens' or is that another slams in your face or hits you in the arse on the way out'?
Nah! I think the first ones right...good luck finding a new job :)
Well it's time to move up in the world. You computer savvy woman!
Looking forward to your Rural Exploration Article. I notice alot more of the buildings and structures that I pass by because of your blog and appreciate the beauty of taking pictures of just about anything (I mean I do that alot). But you are one of my mentors. Niki in Pos is the other one. Have a fabulous weekend darling!
Sorry to hear that you lost your job. Yeah for you for looking at it as an opportunity. Make the most of your time off. :)
You aren't going to tell us why you got fired?
Enjoy your weekend and all the catch-up tasks (the pleasant ones).
I wrote about the why earlier. They kept saying they were going to fire me cause my quality of calls was not 90%. Not that I wasn't nice and polite and so on. I just didn't use all the elements from the script by the marketing department. We aren't supposed to have a script officially but they do grade each call for how many of the "scripted" qualifiers we use. There are many of them and each and every call should have a minimum of 90% of them. That's why I was fired. I didn't read all the scripted elements on every call.
Well, sounds like you were unappreciated anyway, good riddance to bad employment. There is something better around the corner. And I know you'll shake its hand and move on to more wonderful and exciting times.
Ouch. Being fired sucks for sure. I would totally get into the watching the bus leave without me thing, though. Now that's freedom! ;)
Do you blog for money with PayPerPost and SocialSpark? If not, you may want to look into that. They are looking for employees also. Maybe you can stay home and work! :-)
I do very well with them.
Good Luck!
Shelly M.
The Mom With Brownies
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