Beneath the Wraps

  Ever since we moved to Oregon members of our ward have indicated that finding jobs comes easy to those in the Church.   Maybe before 2020.   I didn’t get a job right away with the school system – but I did get a job.   Haven’t found another.   But I have put in MANY applications and have had interviews.   I didn’t think I was being all that picky.   Maybe. The most frustrating thing was having Richard get on my case – also believing that it would be easier to find work than it has been.   Now (with on bachelors and two masters) he’s the one putting in applications and interviewing and not getting hired.   I feel for him – I do.   He wants to work.   I wouldn’t mind working part time somewhere.   I’m okay with volunteering at the library – though just a bit of extra income would help financially.   A lot of extra income would help keep Jaime in school. I’d like Richard to be working again.   I am sorry he has to ...

                 Filling out online applications is insane.   You think you are filling out the application for the site and suddenly realize that you have moved to some other site – perhaps job related as well or for a school or heaven forbid, a scam.   That’s right.   I have three different email accounts.   One I had to open in order to create this blog account.   One I keep as a personal account.   The oldest of the three accounts I keep as a junk mail account.   I used to check it maybe once a month.   Since I’ve been job hunting I will check either daily or at least every other day.   It’s still a lot of email to go through.   I checked it only one time during the week we had family here.   After Roland had taken them to the airport I had over 200 emails to wade through. Any site I have ever ordered from, any site connected with the schools in Utah, any job site I have ever...