Unemployment recap
Official number of days of my unemployment: 222 (1 September 2005 - 9 April 2006)
The Prologue (Summer '05):
-Late May 2005-Mid-July 2005: Post-graduation malaise/mortification; pre-Europe planning/packing.
-July 11-August 5, 2005: Self-reliance and self-discovery (ha) in Paris, Bruges, Amsterdam, Munich, Vienna, Turin, Genoa and London. (Most significant accomplishment: riding on the London Underground.)
-August 6-August 31, 2005: Post-Europe decompression; time spent on various lakes (Candlewood, George, Wobegone); First job interview at Norwalk architecture firm (offered and declined because, hey, if it was that easy, why not wait a little while for something better to come along?)
The 222-Day Crucible:
-September 2005: Slow but steady progress on application submission. Interviewed at The Mount in Lenox, MA; offered "literary arts program coordinator" job; declined because, hey, if it was that easy, why not wait a little while for something even BETTER to come along? (And committing to two years working in the rural Berkshires felt like social suicide.) Also, the blackjack winning streak begins.
-October 2005: Feverish submission of job applications; editorial assistant gig at small local publisher is sole glimmer of hope, but is snuffed out because it's part-time and they're not convinced that I won't quit as soon as I find a full-time job. Also: the dawn of the (Temporarily) Unemployed Ivy League Graduate. (There was much rejoicing.) Also, more blackjack.
-Early November 2005: The Food & Wine debacle. (Let 'em find this on Google. It'll serve 'em right.)
-Mid-November 2005-Early-January 2006: Winter Break. (The Game, b-day festivities, blackjack, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, blackjack, Christmas, New Years, blackjack, Starbucks) Lots of distraction; little progress on the job front.
-Mid-January 2006: Submitted to a dizzying array of jobs (Newsweek, rural upstate New York newspaper, personal assistant to unnamed author in Manhattan). Dead ends, all.
-February 2006: The Kaplan debacle. The Yaccarino garage debacle.
-March 2006: The apex (or would it be the nadir?) of my self-loathing. Lowlights include: a day at my uncle's perfume pump company; aborted attempts at fiction writing; more dead-end job applications. Highlights include: slam poetry and the Oscars.
-Early-April 2006: One finally sticks. And then another does, too. But why does it still feel like I'm unemployed? (Oh, right: as the anonymous comment writer said, unemployment--as it has come to be defined by this chronicle, anyway--is more than just the absence of a steady income.)
-April 10, 2006: The blog gets boring.
So, you see? It was an eventful 222 days. Right? I mean, yeah, you were probably out there contributing to society, learning new things, making mad scrill (sp?), blazing trails, rescuing cats from trees, discovering cures for cancer and hangovers. But I was doing my best too, man. It took a while. (Strike that: it's taking a while.) But I'm getting there. I think. I hope.
The Prologue (Summer '05):
-Late May 2005-Mid-July 2005: Post-graduation malaise/mortification; pre-Europe planning/packing.
-July 11-August 5, 2005: Self-reliance and self-discovery (ha) in Paris, Bruges, Amsterdam, Munich, Vienna, Turin, Genoa and London. (Most significant accomplishment: riding on the London Underground.)
-August 6-August 31, 2005: Post-Europe decompression; time spent on various lakes (Candlewood, George, Wobegone); First job interview at Norwalk architecture firm (offered and declined because, hey, if it was that easy, why not wait a little while for something better to come along?)
The 222-Day Crucible:
-September 2005: Slow but steady progress on application submission. Interviewed at The Mount in Lenox, MA; offered "literary arts program coordinator" job; declined because, hey, if it was that easy, why not wait a little while for something even BETTER to come along? (And committing to two years working in the rural Berkshires felt like social suicide.) Also, the blackjack winning streak begins.
-October 2005: Feverish submission of job applications; editorial assistant gig at small local publisher is sole glimmer of hope, but is snuffed out because it's part-time and they're not convinced that I won't quit as soon as I find a full-time job. Also: the dawn of the (Temporarily) Unemployed Ivy League Graduate. (There was much rejoicing.) Also, more blackjack.
-Early November 2005: The Food & Wine debacle. (Let 'em find this on Google. It'll serve 'em right.)
-Mid-November 2005-Early-January 2006: Winter Break. (The Game, b-day festivities, blackjack, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, blackjack, Christmas, New Years, blackjack, Starbucks) Lots of distraction; little progress on the job front.
-Mid-January 2006: Submitted to a dizzying array of jobs (Newsweek, rural upstate New York newspaper, personal assistant to unnamed author in Manhattan). Dead ends, all.
-February 2006: The Kaplan debacle. The Yaccarino garage debacle.
-March 2006: The apex (or would it be the nadir?) of my self-loathing. Lowlights include: a day at my uncle's perfume pump company; aborted attempts at fiction writing; more dead-end job applications. Highlights include: slam poetry and the Oscars.
-Early-April 2006: One finally sticks. And then another does, too. But why does it still feel like I'm unemployed? (Oh, right: as the anonymous comment writer said, unemployment--as it has come to be defined by this chronicle, anyway--is more than just the absence of a steady income.)
-April 10, 2006: The blog gets boring.
So, you see? It was an eventful 222 days. Right? I mean, yeah, you were probably out there contributing to society, learning new things, making mad scrill (sp?), blazing trails, rescuing cats from trees, discovering cures for cancer and hangovers. But I was doing my best too, man. It took a while. (Strike that: it's taking a while.) But I'm getting there. I think. I hope.
posted by temporarily unemployed at 08:34
8 Comments:
Do you know what 222 multiplied by the one's digit of your age is? Well, I'll let you ponder it. Sounds pretty suspicious to me.
How is the polling going?
PLUS, you know what 4+8+15+16+23+42*2 equals????
THAT'S RIGHT, 216, a mere 7 days short of your official unemployment tally...and besides, I think that at least a week of this time was spent employeed by Mohegan Sun, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that JJ Abrams is trying to tell you something. Good thing you started working when you did.
~C
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