Discouraged

Well, today marks day three sitting in Starbucks all day applying for jobs.  Let me start by saying that I hate writing resumes...If I could pay someone to do it for me I would.  I've been applying to places left and right.

E and I walked around the neighborhood where our soon to be new apartment is and asked for job applications.  As it turns out, everything is done online.  So after looking at all of the websites, we found that nobody is hiring...not even the grocery store.  I am feeling mighty discouraged.  It feels like I will never find a job. 

I recently updated my nannying profile, and I applied to the Target here in Tacoma, hoping that my experience would get me into one of those two.  I am getting desperate.  Everyone keeps telling us there are lots of jobs here.  They ask what my degree is and tell me it should be easy to find a job in my field.  They are all wrong.  The next time someone asks me what kind of work I'm lookinf for I'm going to say "anything I can get"  Through all of this we just keep reminding ourselves that this is all a part of the plan...but it's stressful...It's also frustrating to know how much money  I paid for a degree that I can't even use now.  Everyone wants you to have years of experience, but how do you get experience if nobody will take a chance on you?  k

E is on orders doing what he thinks is just a pity job this week so that he can have a little bit of income while he continues to look for work.  We have met a lot of people who are state troopers, so E just needs to get his act together and finish his resume (which he hates doing more than I do, if that's even possible) and submit his application.  The state trooper opportunity looks promising, seeing as so many people are retiring right now...but the application process takes about 3-5 months I guess...so we still need to find something temporary.

I am feeling so discouraged.  I started looking for jobs over four months ago...and nothing.  I have spent all day long the last three days in a coffee shop looking, applying, writing resumes, writing cover letters...and I have nothing to show for it.  It feels like we will never have anything.

I will try my best to be patient.  To keep applying.  Keep trying...

We both agree that we have a new appreciation for homeless and unemployed people.  We are qualified individuals, with education, and even WE can't find anything...

Please pray for us.  We can use all the help we can get.