State of the T Address...

[beanside]

Jesus, do I ever post any more? I may be the most boring person on the planet.

So, last week was a busy week! I was forced, in the name of my Unemployment benefits, to attend a two day workshop. We discovered that Mom had a third heart attack at some point, which necessitated another Cardiac Catheterization, and I had another in my running series of nervous breakdowns, but this one might have ultimately led me where I really want to go.



I'm not going to talk much about mom. She's doing okay, I'm still flipped out about it, and I would like to personally set the asshole who did her stress test on fire. I understand the need to get a good test. I do not understand the need to play children's music and be an emotionless ass. I think that's in the DSM as a Masochistic personality disorder or something. (The Wheels on the Bus? Seriously? Seriously?)

So, the workshop. It was a two-day, 9-4 workshop on how awesome the MD Workforce Exchange is, and how they'll help us get employed. Mostly what I got out of it was that I'm smarter than a lot of people, cause WOW. Reading comprehension much?

The gentleman who ran the workshop however, was awesome. He was this short little dynamo of an old time preacher. That's the only way I can describe him. He'd as questions and finish with "oh, help me, please!" If not for him, I'd have probably lost my mind.

I had a follow up with him on this past Monday, and we worked on my resume. But in a real way, we worked on my self esteem, too. He made it clear that he thought I was intelligent and kind and caring. He insisted that I include the dog transport volunteer work on my resume because it showed my soul, and that I feel all creatures are precious.

I don't know that the new resume will get used. I've decided that I want my own business. I want to do my pet and people Reiki. I'm looking into renting a small office that I can meet people/pets in, do the first treatment maybe. But mostly it's for my own safety. A lot of the job will be outcalls, but I don't want to wander blithely into dangerous situations. If I have a place to work, it'll be easier. If I thought I could do it, I'd have a little shed built in the backyard. Maybe eventually, I will.

For now, I'll keep looking for my perfect place of business.

I have to admit, I also want it to be somewhere I can write in between clients. I miss having quiet time at work where no one was bothering me. I find it hard to write at home. Even our little bar-space isn't free from distractions.

We shall see. I don't need much. Just a room with access to a bathroom.

Comments

[ixchel55.livejournal.com]

I wish the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (heh!) would be a little more pro-active. Right now I can get help with a resume (which I really don't need because I've already had professional help) and you can use their computers and their fax and there are people to help you with that, but that's not needed either. I know part of it is is that I just need to be a little more dedicated and not so picky. Good luck.

Good luck, too on starting your own business. Having your own place is not only sound from a safety POV but just think how much less stressful it would be not to have to rush around trying to find other places.

About building a shed to work from, remember weather conditions in the winter, but if the property is yours you'd be able to take a business deduction on your taxes. And being able to relax and write in your down time instead of spending it traveling would be wonderful.

[jedi-diplomat.livejournal.com]

LOL, the State of Wisconsin didn't have any such workshops. I would have liked one on IT when I was first unemployed but not eligible for benefits (as I was just out of college and therefor had no real job to speak of and oh YEAH I spent the last four years in Minnesota) though it did give me savage glee that my dad dissed my resume (he was unemployeed at the same time and looking in the same industry but without my degree or any degree or programming background really) and I got a full time job before he did. Of course, that was only 9 months before they fired me, but still.

I'm rambling but what I was going to say was the one time I was actually ON unemployment (simply to fuck with my former employers who had the last laugh and LIED to federal law enforcement officers on my background investigation and that still pisses me off two years later) I already had my fed job and the State of WI didn't quite understand what a conditional, verbal offer was. So I still had to go through the motions until I got the actual letter that I had passed medical and background. That time they made me go to clinics and stuff for resumes and I was like 'um...have job, just waiting for call to start."

Anyway, good luck!!!

[robanybody.livejournal.com]

*hug* I'm terribly sorry to hear about your mother. I hope she will recover and be all right again. And I hope that you're going to be all right too. ♥

[kimannebb.livejournal.com]

Wow it sounds like the workshop was good, maybe not necessarily the outcome that was "supposed" to happen but it seems that you have reinforced your goal and that is awesome. I will cross my fingers that you find a little place and get the business up and running, that would be great. *hugs*

[kimannebb.livejournal.com]

Ahhh! I hit send before I was ready - I was distracted by Dora. I'm sorry to hear about your Mom, I hope that things improve and that she starts to feel better *more hugs*

[one-more-cherry.livejournal.com]

*major hugs* I hope everything works out for your mom.

[livrelibre.livejournal.com]

Good luck to your mom and to you! On the business thing, a lot of local chambers of commerce and public libraries can hook you up with small business information and assistance.

[katzb101.livejournal.com]

Good luck and good thoughts.

For you and your family.

[eponin10.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Good thoughts to your mom.

Good thoughts to you, too, on the business! It's hard work and all, but I'm finally set up with my jewelry as a side business (I even got a tax ID and everything). It's crazy, but hopefully at some point it'll take off. :) Let me know if you need to talk about any of this.

[darktouch.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Sometimes life just throws you into the deep end of the pool.

[caarirose.livejournal.com]

*cuddles* Firstly, give Mom my love.

And you sound like my T! You're gonna get there, sweetie.