It has been a long and stressful stretch these past few months, actually a year or more to be exact. As far back as I can recall, this past summer with my jobs and graphic design search has come up empty. Going back to the phones has been a hard pill to swallow as well. In fact I have been bouncing from job to job just to keep us a float so to speak. I have trained for Humana, spent some time taking the political surveys for the election, and working for a Health group and even have tried my hand being my own boss selling and designing graphic tshirts. This New year of 2013 and looking back in the rear view mirror so to speak hoping that the new year would bring better things to come. Linda lost her job at Wells Fargo and put us in a emergency state with me not working... I did what all of us have done one time or another, going back again doing something that you despise for the better good; going back on the phones yet again. The company was better known as phone hell, they hire anybody breathing and have some computer skills. In the midst of training I got ill and nearly lost this job several times and with bronchitis again missing much needed hours was lucky enough to keep the job and move out of training and unto the production floor. In the meantime Linda started working for my old nemesis, phone job and has been taking calls for direct dealers for Cricket Wireless in a round about way...it is a bit complicated and leave it at that. Going to these jobs are stressful as we are treated more like a number rather then a person. In all this I still kept my head up high and felt that as I peruse interview after interview for graphic design that the number game of odds would pan out...my luck has run out. After a very devastating blow of not getting a graphic design job I thought I for sure nailed in my second interview of a panel of 10 designers, it finally hit me that maybe phone jobs will be the career path I must take from now on. I signed up for health insurance for this employer and assumed that in a month or so I would be covered as we need insurance desperately. To my frustration and anger the website I enrolled in was so lame that I came to find out that I will not have insurance and would not be able to have insurance until late fall; out of this anger I decided that I need to just except the fact that I need to be on the phones for now until I revamp my portfolio and hit it hard in a few months and find a job that would give me the insurance we need sooner then this fall.
So... with my anger still in hand, I decided to apply for this company in Orem and so I did and the next day I was hired and realized that it is a commute and that Linda does not like her current job and so I got her an interview and she was hired the next day. This is now the current situation as we face the fact that our jobs are 45 minutes away and in another city, we are in the midst of the next steps of this and start training for a security system call center and insurance will kick in early summer.
I am hopeful I made and we mad the right choice in this endeavor as of this moment we are now on vacation as it is long over due, we are in Bryce Utah at Bryce national park. Here is a shot from my cell phone and car window.
