Unemployment Chronicles, Day 1 (Again): This is the Beginning

So here's the funny thing -- the really pretty amazing thing:

For the last four and a half months, I have been looking for work.  I polished up my resume, got my Linked-In profile up to speed, attended outplacement classes and worked with a coach, talked to recruiters, networked to the extent that I could, applied for jobs, interviewed a few times.  I wrote 48 posts about being unemployed and had nearly 4,000 pageviews during those four-plus months.

But as I wrote in my last post, I was still technically employed.  If you call Farmers and ask about my employment there, they will tell you that my last day was yesterday.  My first day of actual unemployment was today.

And way down here, finally, is that funny thing:  Today I got a job.  I spent part of one day unemployed.

The contract is only for about two months, so it's not necessarily the cure-all that will lead us back to prosperity.  Then again, we were never at prosperity, at least I wouldn't say we were.  Anyway, what it is is a foot in the contracting door, money coming in, benefits, the chance to show someone that I know what I am doing.  All good stuff.

I won't start the job for at least another week, so I will probably keep writing until then, maybe about the joys of not working but knowing that you will have a job soon.