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My Life This Year: My Job + Next Year's Plans
11 months ago
Well...
To start with, I was laid off and been unemployed since April but I'm getting a new job starting near the end of the month. Thing is, it's for the same project, but under an IT firm, so all that uncertainty just to loop back to where I was. I was hoping to move on from the industry and maybe even get a public service job, but I was getting next to no responses from my applications elsewhere, and my French studies is still a work in progress that it's unlikely I'll get a gov job before my employment insurance ends, and that's if there would even be a position opening fit for me by then.
Still nervous about the job because of the new people involved and it'll be full-time in office. It's close, but my city's transit will probably find a way to screw me over somehow. It's been quite a while since I worked in general, too.
I was in a disadvantage when it comes to the job search because I graduated for web dev, but I ended up on software testing, leaving me stuck between rusted skills with no real experience in the former (not to mention coding anxiety that I've never shaken off since college) and most other tester positions wanting something like a bachelor's in CS for the latter.
At least I'll have reliable income again, so I can have more commissions and con trips. I was getting sick of unemployment before I got approached by said recruiting firm. On that note, I got myself a room and registration for FWA, and AC is a possibility depending on how the hotel booking would go. I registered for the latter already because of the con's new registration cap. Furrydelphia is likely again mainly because my friend there wants to take me to a Phillies game and they'll be playing at home that weekend.
To start with, I was laid off and been unemployed since April but I'm getting a new job starting near the end of the month. Thing is, it's for the same project, but under an IT firm, so all that uncertainty just to loop back to where I was. I was hoping to move on from the industry and maybe even get a public service job, but I was getting next to no responses from my applications elsewhere, and my French studies is still a work in progress that it's unlikely I'll get a gov job before my employment insurance ends, and that's if there would even be a position opening fit for me by then.
Still nervous about the job because of the new people involved and it'll be full-time in office. It's close, but my city's transit will probably find a way to screw me over somehow. It's been quite a while since I worked in general, too.
I was in a disadvantage when it comes to the job search because I graduated for web dev, but I ended up on software testing, leaving me stuck between rusted skills with no real experience in the former (not to mention coding anxiety that I've never shaken off since college) and most other tester positions wanting something like a bachelor's in CS for the latter.
At least I'll have reliable income again, so I can have more commissions and con trips. I was getting sick of unemployment before I got approached by said recruiting firm. On that note, I got myself a room and registration for FWA, and AC is a possibility depending on how the hotel booking would go. I registered for the latter already because of the con's new registration cap. Furrydelphia is likely again mainly because my friend there wants to take me to a Phillies game and they'll be playing at home that weekend.
