So far zero week wasn't going as I might have hoped it would. Days one, two and three had not given me too much to whoop about: I'd packed my friends off to a new life a couple of hours away, I'd got upset, and I'd charged up the roflcopter after an unintentionally funny BBC article.
Not that I'm ever one to give up, but we're more than halfway through the week and I've not heard so much as a squeak from any of the big three applications I'm waiting on. I'm starting to think that this week might not be the 'zero hour' I wished it would be.
By the end of yesterday I was getting sick of waiting - it is all I ever seem to do these days and so I tried to look into making my own opportunities. I followed up on something I'd been working on and managed to arrange a meeting with someone for next week. If it comes off it will be brilliant, amazing and by far and away the break I've been hoping for.
I'm not giving up on these other jobs - if I got even as much as a phone interview I'd be made up, but currently my time is much better served working on other things. If nothing else, it kills time waiting. Now like my hairy friend from yesterday's post, I could play my games and watch my DVDs because let's face it, that is going to get me a job a lot faster. Oh no wait, it won't. I'm going to have to start being a little more proactive about it. If I'm not getting the jobs I'm currently applying for, it's time to change tack.
These days a career isn't for life so it doesn't matter if I do thirty different jobs because versatility is becoming the order of the day far more than brand loyalty ever was. Employers want to see transferable skills - to be honest I thought I'd covered that with the page-turning stories that I could come up with from some of the jobs and opportunities I've done over the years, but maybe some people don't enjoy hearing about the lady who decided she would get completely changed on an Italian bus and would prefer to hear about my extensive copy-writing experience.
Oh well. After the torment and confidence deflation of Tuesday afternoon, I've been looking for alternative careers, sorry jobs. The trouble I have is that I'm a fidget-y person: I can't sit still and I hate offices. I like meeting new people and stretching my legs, not sitting in a poor-erganomic chair in an office that's either too hot or too cold.
I think I've found a solution. Then again this is always my problem. I think I have the answer and then I start to plan steps two, three and thirty-five, before I have successfully passed step one. This is an area I have absolutely no experience in, but I love a challenge - who doesn't!?
This is proving to be rather a good distraction from zero hour...
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