Bitchpanic about hitting the one year mark...

OK, it's not *that* close yet, but we all know how time flies...even though I continued to do some work w/my employer in Chicago after I moved back to Austin, I count the beginning of July as the "official" start of my job search/period of unemployment. Even though I started looking for jobs before that, that date is good because that's when I actually arrived back in Austin.

9.5 months later, I have applied for over 100 jobs, had lots of interviews, and zero offers. Which I am pretty okay with, because I have had lots of interviews for positions that I thought would be "okay" jobs, but not really something I was totally jazzed about.

I guess I'm just feeling blue this week because I had an interview Thursday last week, and one on Friday and, you know, I want to know NOW if there are second interviews in my future. Both of these interviews were with companies I'm really interested in. Patience is a virtue, and it's not something I was blessed with (I blame the Davison genes).

I've also been thinking a lot about what happens if I reach the one year point? What do I do then? Get sympathy cards in the mail from everybody who didn't hire me? ;) No...but I might have to seriously reevaluate some things. Beg my husband to move somewhere that holds more job opportunities in what I'm looking for? Give up being a meeting planner? I don't know, and I hope that is a milestone that I do NOT reach.

Things I miss about working.

I mean, besides the obvious (the paycheck).

1) Going to Starbucks for a little break. Woe is me if I don't work walking distance from Starbucks.

2) After work happy hour (which I never did as well as in Chicago, ha!).

Of course, these aren't the ONLY things...but I DO look forward to them, I won't lie!

(Edited to add) 3) Awesome people like Fiore and Trisha. Duh, how did I not remember to include this originally?