[CaptainCrunch]

Bump, I don't know if it matters or not.


But after receiving my layoff notice last Wednesday, I spent a couple of days being mad, scared, terrified, stressed. I wondered about my future, being a older guy in a bad job market. I had a constant ball in my stomach. Frankly the only thing I did on Thursday and Friday was do my application for Unemployment online.



I didn't sleep much, my mind kept doing money calculations based on my package, savings and UI.



I went for lunch with my former employers on Friday and knew it was probably the last time I would really talk to them or interact with them. Which kind of depressed my after 7 years working with them, but they promised me strong references, which is a positive.


The only thing that I did was polish and update my resume to make sure I was good to go.


On Monday I dropped off my ROE and then got to work



On Monday I got to work going to every job seekers website and building profiles, and then between yesterday and today I sent out 7 applications. Of course the problem is the patience factor. I would send off the application and then sit there 10 minutes later saying, why haven't they gotten back to me? What am I doing wrong? I must learn some patience.


I also went through my linked in and set up coffees with a couple of former contacts.


This morning I woke up and had two interview requests, one with a placement firm to generally talk about me, one is an interview with a position that I applied for via a placement firm.


I guess at this point I'm going to keep grinding. I spend about 4 to 5 hours a day on my job search.


Today I'm going to keep searching the ads. Tomorrow I'm going to target similar companies to my skill set and visit their sites to see if they're looking and even if they're not, I'm going to send in a general inquiry.



Even over the last 6 days its hard to stay optimistic and pumped all the time. But hopefully this works out and if I keep doing the right things, things will work out.


Thanks for letting me indulge, if anyone has any feed back let me know.