A job-searcher's affirmation

[mangosteen]

Every morning....

...I will get out of bed.
...I will eat breakfast.
...I will go through all messages and contacts, and make a to-do list.
...I will prioritize the to-do list.
...I will shower and get dressed.
...I will work through the to-do list, logging every call and contact.
...I will get out of the house.

I will do this every workday.
Employed or not.
It is important.

Comments

you're ambitious

[cthulhia]

out of bed, showered and dressed.
no breakfast.
to do list?
and I am about to go out for coffee.
perhaps I shall write up a to-do list.

(ok, ok, so I did send out about 6 resumes yesterday.)

I need to go to the gym. I wonder if I have time between coffee and a movie date at 3:30. (After the movie is the onset of Artbeat.)
Must. Work out. Tomorrow. Morning.

[ceo]

Thank you. I think I'm going to steal that.

I only wish I'd started doing that nine months ago.

[passionandsoul.livejournal.com]

Or... in my case-

spend 28 hours straight researching jobs, pass out. Over the next 2 weeks slowly work through the to research list. Ponder greatly how much my body and time are worth. Eat the occassional meal, enough that I at least try to take my drugs. Randomly flip between happy dances and morose moments wondering if it's all worth it. Have Eudora Mail tell me I should wash my keyboard out with soap and water for sending in various job applicatons. Try to sleep mo more than 10 hours a day, and try not to get sunburnt. Cultivate fans in unusual places.

Miss you, and good luck on your version of a to-do list. When I'll be in NY is still up in the air, but I'll keep you updated. Hell, if I can find a pay gig in Boston, even better.

Hugs

I speak from experience: put the shower first.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

I have this problem, employed or not, where I get significantly less done when I don't make a shower the first task of the day. As long as I shower before my brain is in gear, I can leap walls. Okay, I can toss other people over very small walls, but the spirit is there. If I have enough time to think about anything deeper than "that cranny of skin itches" before I shower, I start negotiating the moment of the shower and the day begins to dissolve.

Shower first. Then you can confront the other humans without feeling like you're in your pyjamas.

I even blew it a little today. I got up at 8:15 (on a Saturday, no less), had breakfast (spaghetti and meatball leftover from last week), brewed coffee and watched a bowlderized version of "Road to Wellville". (I'm a sucker for Jon Cusack.) I didn't even shower until 11 am, by which time excuses like "but Car Talk is on" get to dominate my whining.

Prepare for a day. This will let you have a full day. It's kinda British, but it's vital to maintaining your investment in civilization: going through the motions makes the ramp-up to rehire less steep. Also, it means other humans will want to hire your squeaky-clean body.

You'll have to pardon me -- I have a couple hard drives to backup, reformat, and give to the demon of dual booting.

-pump it up, Dante

[rmd.livejournal.com]

sing it!

one good suggestion i heard is make sure you do stuff that makes you keep track of what day of the week it is, so there's a separation betwen weekends and "workday" days.

[mangosteen]

Indeed. That's why going to the gym has become so important.
Being unemployed makes the actual day of the week much less relevant, but that does not decrease its importance, for the rest of the world turns on it, even if you don't.

In addition, having weekly social events help, too.