Gonna Make Me Some Money!

Huzzah! There is finally progress on the job hunt!!
In the past 2 days, I've probably sent out between 30-35 resumes and harrassed all my friends who have jobs to find me something, and last night I had a mini break down. I know, I know, it was just 2 days since I started seriously searching, but I have been off work for a week now and I HATE the idea that I'm not making money. Because of my tax return I have enough in my account to pay for my student loan payment for this month and next month's rent, but after that I'm going to have to start going into my savings. And with a Northern Ontario roadtrip planned for the end of the summer and tickets to the Olympics next year, I have quite a bit I need to save up for. And that's not to mention general saving up for things like a downpayment for a house.
But I have an interview tomorrow! Granted, it's with a staffing agency, but it's for a reception position downtown and judging by the job description, it seems exactly the same thing as I was doing at my last reception job. So they can't not hire me on the basis that I am not experienced! Take THAT, bitches!

I mean, wont you please hire me on permanent so that I can stop this job search crap every month?

10 bucks says I start on Monday.

Paying Attention Is Overrated - I'd Rather Eat

Ugh... I HATE applying for jobs. I always screw up SOMETHING on each application, which narrows the amount of people who will probably contact me back. Things like forgetting to attach my resume, or forgetting to change the contact name on the cover letter, or the position name or take out certain parts of the cover letter that pertained to the previous job but has absolutely nothing to do with the one I was working on. Like right now, someone at a property management company is going to be reading my cover letter meant to be for an admin assistant, but instead is focused towards an office admin position. And says office admin position in it. And mentions how I'm taking HR courses which will be useful for assisting the HR manager which is not part of the job description. Gah... I guess I'll just try to be more careful. That way I'll be telling the truth when I say I am detail-oriented.

In other news, I marked yesterday as The Beginning Of The Time When Lil S Stops Eating Crap And Starts Exercising Again. Last spring I ran every day and then in the summer I worked out every day and was really active while I was working at camp. Since then, I have been working office jobs and eating whatever I wanted, far too frequently. Needless to say that especially over the past week, my weight has... inflated. What can I say, I come from a family that eats when we're sad, stressed, celebrating something... so basically all the time. And it's not even that I think I'm fat or anything, I just don't feel as healthy as I did last summer. So I went for a run yesterday (stamina? I had that once? Really?? Could swear that I have NO idea what that is now...) and made shit loads of tea rather than eating cheese and crackers as per the norm so that I would feel full. Helped a little, I guess. But the major issue now is that I'm unemployed so I'm home all day, and that means I have access to my wonderful fridge of yummy surprises all day long. Here's hoping I can resist the urge to shove my face full of food!

Excuse me whilst I make a pot of tea.

Have I Mentioned That I Love This Recession?

Well probably not to you, considering this is my first post. But I am sure I have mentioned it to many people that I actually know. This recession is quite unkind to the recent grads of '08... I've been out of University for almost a year now, and have had 4 semi-long term temp jobs to show for it. The latest of which will be ending after tomorrow.
I just texted my mom to let her know, and her response: "Oh i guess u must of expected it." Umm, thanks for the sympathy?? In all fairness though, I was wondering when they were going to let me go... in the past 5-6 weeks that I've been working here, I've probably done about 1 1/2 weeks worth of work. The rest of the time they tell me they have nothing for me, so I check my email a million times and check my bank account a million times, then read msnbc.com and fmylife.com (GREAT site by the way!) til I've read all the stories and then drink lots of water so that I have to pee 10 times so that I have an excuse to get up and DO something. So I guess I'm lucky I wasn't let go earlier.
At least the weather is nice-ish now. Maybe I'll take up running again in my spare time. That should kill what, 30 minutes each day?? *stabs eyes out with dried up bamboo stick left from the lady she's replacing who is available to come back in to work when they periodically need her which is causing lil S to be unemployed*

Think happy employment thoughts for me, okay?? And for the record, this first post is not a fair representation of me. I swear, I'm a happy child!! But having no job makes me bitchy, apparently.