An update on the job situation

A month has passed since my last official day at work. And I have to say I love being unencumbered by the nonsense that is work. My days of leisure are wonderful.

Being slightly older, I have friends in my age group who are retired, doing their own thing, or just living their best life. And their general advice is to follow my own dreams and not go back to work for "the man" … which is good advice but I'm not sure if that's feasible. We'll see, I guess?

In any event, before I left my old company, I had applied to around 30 jobs. A few were somewhat immediate rejections based on geography, desired skills, etc.

Most were still open but looked like interviews might happen after I left.

And 6 were in active status. For those, I had been through 11 interviews, including two on my last day in what was a very awkward sort of series of events that I won't detail here. But it was memorable.

And then…A little under a week after I left, I heard from one manager that I was THE candidate they wanted, and they wanted to make me an offer.

But.

There's always a but!

They couldn't because they needed a senior level person to sign off on hiring.

Because.

Oh good another caveat.

That same day, the company announced that due to the debt ceiling issues, there was likely to be an economic downturn and all positions are closed. No hiring will be done until further notice.

Thanks 11 congressional mother fuckers for impacting my life. Dumbasses. I need to send them a thank you letter for looking out for everyday Americans. (Quick aside: if it turns out I want to do something else then this was a blessing in disguise. But I'm in a unique situation. Most people will get royally screwed by this)

So that one job…it has to be approved by someone high up in the company. I'm not holding my breath.

And all the other jobs went into limbo. I got some rejections. A few nice well wishes from people I'd interviewed with. And a lot of nothingness in the void.

I did look at internal jobs just to see what was up. And there were just a few jobs - in the entire US - all in sales.

So here I stand. Trying to make my next move.

As I've noted before, my life is a bit different than it was in "the before time" and I need to figure out who I am And what I want to do.