I have to get a full time job.

There. I said it. But let's be honest here. NO! YES! FINE. You win. I want a job too. I'm not saying that I'm looking for my next career because obviously I'm a wicked talented writer and it's high time someone paid for me for my craft but that isn't going to happen any time soon so until then? Yep, a regular ol' job will have to suffice.

What am I looking for, you ask? (oh, by the way, you did ask. Don't you remember?) I have oodles of retail experience which is RAD except that I fucking hate retail. Working a cash register and putting up with customers treating me like shit? No thanks. And now that I also have management experience (two years, what what!) there is no way in hell I'm going back to the bottom. I'm a leader, goddammit. I LEAD. I'm also bossy and like things to be done MY way so I don't do well at the bottom.

HOWEVER! Not only am I applying for retail management positions but I'm branching out! I would love to work in a more technical position. My husband's career is in tech support and he's fucking brilliant but hey, I could do it too! Step one: If your computer plugged in? See? I would nail that shit.

I have also applied for call center positions and more customer-centric but NOT customer-facing positions. I even applied for two positions with my former company but they are in completely different sectors from where I worked before. I would NEVER go back to the same type of work I was doing for them even though it is where I gained my experience. I hated it there and I have my boss' boss to blame for that. Micromanaging bitch.

ANYWAY. I have received a few polite rejection emails and filed them away in the fuck you folder in my inbox. There are a few companies that I'm really interested in but I'm trying to not get my hopes up. I worry about the salary requirement that most employers seem to be asking for because I don't want to put down a number that is outrageously high and I don't want to low-ball it either because then they might not think that I deserve more because I am not right for the position.

Looking for a job sucks. I guess that's the point of this post. I haven't even had an interview yet but maybe next week I'll start getting calls.

I am leery about putting Avery's life in someone else's hands but that's another post for another day.

So yeah. Job hunting, woo hoo!