In order to appease and amuse the handful of peeps that have been inquiring about The Job Search I have decided to interview Mother so that you may truly have as much information as she is able to share.
Me: Good Morning.
Mother: Hey
Me: So the internets want to know about your interviews…what should I say?
Mother: Tell them I am feeling hopeful for the first time in months.
Me: Can I say anything beyond that?
Mother: Sure.
Me: um…care to help me out here?
Mother: I had two good, in person, interviews (you can reference your posts about Baltimore & DC) with a legal staffing firm regarding both permanent and temporary placement. Both were interested and may I say slightly excited?
Me: Yes. You may say that.
Mother: I wasn’t finished.
Me: Oh.
Mother: Slightly excited about my prospects, which of course has made you and me slightly excited as well. It has been a long time since anyone would actually speak with me and it feels like forever since I met someone face to face. And to have them go all positive on me when we are talking gives me a surge of hopeful expectation.
Me: May I interject that you looked so pretty on your interview days?
Mother: Oh wow. Haven’t felt like that either in a long time.
Me: Anything else you would like to share with the internets?
Mother: I am to send more information to the DC recruiter and I have another interview with another temp staffing company on Friday. You could say it has amazed and amused us as to how these opportunities came to pass. All very serendipitously over-woven with kindness.
(yes. My Mother does use phrases like, “serendipitously over-woven”.)
Mother: Needless to say I am continuing to search tirelessly (and tiredly) and apply for every possibility that I can find.
Me: Go team!
(as for other bits of family grunt work news: I apparently was to have an interview with the local social services yesterday morning, but according to their records they failed to mail me or call me to let me know. Brilliance. All of my paperwork is in for W’s insurance but it looks like this phantom interview is the final hurdle. Waiting for someone to call me back to reschedule.)
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fingers crossed! i’ve been hearing anecdotes here and there that make me think hiring for legal jobs is picking up ever so slightly.
excellent! fingers crossed. and your SS need to get their acts together! xxxx
PS i would like more interviews with your mother please, and with W. that’d be cool!!
GO TEAM!
Boo, lame-ass bureaucracy!
Wonderful news on the mom front…and, boo for bureaucratic mess ups.
So glad the move to Maryland has been such an influx of hope a opportunity for you all! (Though SS does suck pretty bad here! I pray I never have to deal with the horrors I here about from co-workers/friends etc.!))
You know it so doesn’t surprise me that your mom uses phrases like “serendipitously over-woven” because I know how you talk and it had to come from somewhere! Me, I just make up words. GO MOM AND TEAM!! And I hate the bureaucratic run around! Good luck. it sounds like this move has been wonderful for all of you! LOOOVE YOU!
Go team, indeed! What great news. I have such really good feelings about your family’s prospects in DC, I really do.
GO MOM! and i think you should interview your mom when she gets a new job every so often, cuz this was FUN!
Hooray for your awesome mom!
Yay Mom!
Your mom looked pretty to me when I met her
I hope all this excitement turns into possibilities sooner than later.
Sending your Mom lots of positve thoughts on the job front – I’m excited to read about the possibilities!
Yay Mom! I am very excited on behalf of all of you. Go team, indeed.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for those job possibilities to come to fruition. Your mom talks like a lawyer. I’m a lawyer, as is my husband. There are plenty of “I wasn’t finished yets” in our house.