Waking up every day, I jump right onto all of the usual job sites.  Monster.com, craigslist.com, careerbuilder.com, hotjobs, etc.   Being without a job, especially after having a great one for the last few years, is a pride-swallowing siege which can only be experienced, not explained.

In the past six weeks, I have interviewed at several places, for several types of positions.   I have interviewed at an echocardiography place, as an assistant to the marketing director.  I have interviewed at software companies and furniture companies.   So far, no luck.

My dad always said to ‘make your vacation your vocation.’   Well, for him it was easy.   He enjoyed playing with electronics, so he became an electrician for the phone company.   Then he started his own business fixing electronics.  Simple, right?  But what about the millions of us whose vacation involves listening to a baseball game while lying on the beach drinking ice tea (with lemon…MMMM!)?

For the people like us, and me especially, our career aspirations should be to find a job that we can excel at while still being happy.  No one really wants to spend all day in a cubicle, but we have to, so we might as well do something we like while we are in there.  Thus, that is my true career aspiration.  To find a job I like to do, no matter what it is, and become the best at it.

So, while my health insurance has now run out, and my unemployment benefits run out in 4 months, I continue to search for that position.   It’s just a matter of getting in the door for an interview at the right time and seizing the opportunity.