Even if you haven’t been directly affected by the economic slowdown I bet you know someone who has. Hard times have befallen people for lots of reasons from losing jobs to having their mortgage foreclosed. I know I personally lost my job at an online football shop a couple of weeks ago. It’s been pretty tough, but I know a lot of people have had it worse so I really can’t complain. Since I had my revelation I spent a lot of time seeking a new job that would work for me. The other day I figured I’d consult the Internet and searched “post free jobs offer” into google. To tell you the truth I didn’t figure a lot of results would come up, but I suppose with so many people looking there should be people trying to meet their demands.

The first job I was considering doing was one helping to install cork floating flooring, mostly because it paid $20/hour. I looked at the job requirements and sadly it was a bit more then I could do. They wanted someone with past experience installing floors and I definitely don’t have that. To be truthful I get tired mowing my lawn. Anyway I moved on from that search and continued to look over the sites that were popping up in the search results.

Next I decided I should look for jobs I’m more qualified for. I began my search by narrowing it down to only jobs in middle level management or I figured I might even take an administrative assistant job. To my delight there were a lot of that type of job being posted on the net. When I first started that search I thought that jobs would be in high demand and thus there would be few of them available. I did some investigation into the jobs and they were paying a little less than I had hoped (around $13/hours for most) but hey, work is work.

When I sent out my applications (to 21 places total) I sat back and hoped I would hear back. I took almost a month, and I was really worried by that point, but finally I heard back from 3 places. I was pumped. I scheduled interviews and prepared myself to go in and come off as a good employee. Sadly my first job interview didn’t the way I had hoped it would. I shrugged it off and chalked it up to the fact that I haven’t had to interview for a long while. The new interviews went a lot better and I really thought something could come from it. It wasn’t long before I heard back with offers from two places! I was so happy to hear back from them. Now I’m all set to start next week and couldn’t be happier.