The way things change

So it's been about 10 months.

I have moved from my small town in New York to across the country. Where I am currently working in retail.

I haven't gotten exactly to where I want to be, I honestly don't even know if I'm closer to it now than before I moved out here.

Realizing what field I want to go into has been half the battle, but it is extremely hard to get any notice with all the competition going around. I want to be a career coordinator or headhunter or whatever I can do in the area of career services.

There have been several interviews since I've been out on the west side, but no bites after the interview. It's pretty disheartening. But! I've been able to satiate my desire to help people with their lives and job hunts by helping co-workers and their families with resumes.

But anyway, this is about surviving after college after all...

After a Very Very Long Hiatus

I kind of gave up on the blogging sphere and took a very long break...obviously.

Life got hectic, the novelty wore off and readership was down (not that it was very up to begin with).

But I thought maybe I'd start trying to update again and include useful things.

Ignoring the useful things for now:

Here has what has happened up til about now.

1. I was offered my temp job and became a full time, benefit eligible employee. This happened towards the end of July.
2. In the process, before I was offered the job, I almost moved to Massachusetts without a job and was going to strike it out there while living with my sister and brother-in-law. A very tough decision after I was offered the job. I struggled for about a week before deciding to stay. Who was I to spit in the face of a paying job with benefits?
3. After accepting the job, I was told, because of budget cuts, that my time was going to be split between two positions...
4. So now I am an Administrative Assistant and a Career Coordinator. Two full time jobs being done in half the time, about 19 hours a week for each, give or take a couple hours here and there.

So needless to say I was out of my head from August-September, while I was getting used to the idea, being trained in a new position, and taking up more responsibility that was left out on the temp job.

But! Experience is experience...and even though at times I feel like I'm going to strangle someone if they ask me to make 4 copies for them when the copier is larger than life right next to me, I have coped. I am learning.

I do have to say that I really have learned how to beef up my resume and cover letter.