Day 9 - Changes

After 2 and one half hours of sitting on the hardest chair known to man, I am now officially unemployed, as I have signed up to receive unemployment benefits. Besides the long wait, the experience was not bad. All of the personnel working in the career center were more than helpful and more than one wished the applicants good luck, especially if they had just filled out a job application for a company who is using the unemployment office for recruitment. Each day they publish and distribute a listing of available positions, and many people come in grab it and leave. Some sit and wait their turns to use the computers or speak to a career counselor. Many have no skills to re-enter the job market and are struggling to find the right seminar/training, some will definitely have a hard time with the change and I feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for myself, but life is about change and what we do with it. One never knows what is just around the bend.  It would have been a great people watching place if the chairs were a bit more comfortable. 

January 9, 2012: I am looking forward to this new year and the many changes that it will bring.