Job Hunting

Well I started. Before Christmas I finally sat down and did an updated resume.  Then I got sick so I didn’t actually get to apply anywhere. But yesterday I did. I took my resume in to a few places and dropped them off.  It is funny how nervous I was just dropping off resumes.I haven’t actually job hunted since I was 21. I had so many different things to offer then. I was young and single. I didn’t have much experience but I had all the available time needed to take on whatever job I had to.  Now I am much older. I haven’t held a “real” job in over 13 years and what I did then would be impossible for me to do now. I have some more experience but the kind that comes from managing a home, a husband three kids and now a rent-a-kid. The computer experience is all self taught and even at that I think I can figure my way around a computer fairly well.My biggest liability is what personally I consider my biggest asset. I can’t, won’t and simply just don’t want to work while my kids are not in school. That limits my available working hours to Mon-Fri 9-3.  Of course it is more flexible when Trevor is at home because he is able to be available to the kids. But I really love being available to my family when they need me to be. I would love to have a light weight job that allows me to work those hours, learn some new computer skills, organizational skills and administrative skills.  I know there aren’t alot out there so I have expanded my job search to looking for something retail as well, with hopefully some fringe benefits there as well (like maybe some great staff discounts) Today I dropped off my resume at a place that I think would be my perfect job and certainly something that if I was considered for would be an absolute gift from God.  It would be an awkward start for sure but something I think I would fit into nicely, not to mention the hours are those perfect 9-3 hours and only four days a week.So now I will wait. I will continue to go out some mornings looking for the place I am supposed to be and if any of you out there know of a place of business looking for some extra help in their business let me know, I am really dying to get out there and be a part of that part of society again.