Back on the Rock and Roll

You know when you just get on with your job, doing your best to make sure everything you do is done to the best of your ability and you put yourself out for the good of the team..blah, blah..and then it all goes to pot in the time it takes to say "..unfortunately we have been forced to make the decision to put the company into liquidation..."

There were signs, but when they employed you just four months previously, naturally you are less aware of them as the others who had been there much longer.

So, "It is what it is" as they say these days.  I am once again on the unemployed list, one more statistic to be badgered and lectured by those who pay me my Job Seekers Allowance from the pockets of people heading off to do a decent day's work and supporting the likes of scroungers and folk like me.

I'd like to console you with the fact that I do not intend to use 'The Bank of You' for long.  You won't be seeing me on Jeremy Kyle...or even watching it! Nor will you find me loitering around the town, smoking, spitting and having foul, loud arguments with an equally foul and loud person on the end of a mobile phone.

You might see me looking a bit of a sight in my scruffy trackies and trainers, hair a little wayward and no makeup, if I need to nip out to get something and I've just been, or about to go out with the dogs and can't be arsed to get changed - but you'd probably just cross the road to avoid the 'bag lady' anyway.

This week I have places to go and people to meet. Three in fact. Yesterday's meeting went the way I expected. Freelance, low rate of pay and not much chance of improvement, but it is local.

Tomorrow I have the one I am most hopeful about. It 'could' be the best offer, but could also be one I have to put on the 'for consideration' list.  It all depends on if it's employed or freelance.  Government Funded Training these days is tricky.  Companies who have been around years, suddenly find they can't compete with the big guns for contracts and have to make the same decision as mine.

Thursdays meeting I already know is a freelance position, is local but may be worth considering depending on the terms and conditions.  I am fairly confident that I would be offered all the above having spent the last 15 years working in all kinds of training roles with all the 'essential and desirable' skills and qualfications usually found on job descriptions, but these days who knows.

Fingers crossed...Mrs Irritatingly Optimistic isn't in the gutter yet!  Everything happens for a reason, and I'm sure something good will come along - or I'm forced to look at other options.  Maybe freelance work would open the door to things I hadn't been able to consider before.

Keeping Smiling