Time for a New Adventure

I am joining the ranks of Quality Weenie and Tammi.

The ranks of unemployed.

That's right folks, I no longer have a job.

Tuesday afternoon I was called into the office of my company president along with the other 2 bosses in the office. Long story short, they were of the belief that what they have to offer in the long term would not be a good utilization of my talents and therefore, continuing to employ me would be a disservice.

Basically, I was doing two things. Estimating, which involved doing quantity take-offs (counting how much material needs to be used in a building) on a program run by an old computer with Windows 95 for an O.S. and the actual take-off program still ran in DOS. Freaking DOS!!!!!!!!!

The other thing I worked on was revising the safety program. The final incarnation was not completed prior to my exit.

However, there are some good points to this in the end. They promised they would not challenge me filing for unemployment and would provide a good reference.

Also, since it is still summer, there may be a better possibility of finding a job now than closer to the fall.



So today I filed for unemployment (I was unemployed for three months a little over a year ago and never filed and still haven't gotten out from under the debt of that mistake). And tomorrow I will be updating my resume and posting to career builder and monster. Also, going to start making phone calls and doing lots of internet searches, as well as visiting offices in the surrounding area.

If anybody knows of good job opportunities in either construction (management position) or firearms manufacturing between Peoria and the Quad Cities and Princeton and Monmouth, please let me know.


As for tomorrow. I need out of the house to just relax and refocus. I think I will either go golfing or hit some tennis balls around.