Category Archives: Job search/Job prospects

o Update 04/06/16 – Housing, Job search

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I am facing urgent, drastic changes.  To find new housing, I may wind up in a distant location.  It may be difficult to get to church; it may become impossible to attend; I may have to give up my offices at church.  I may have to move out-of-state.

Transitional housing now does not seem likely to become available to me anytime in the near future.  The most realistic plan will be to continue to stay at the shelter, but take other steps to facilitate finding and keeping a job.  The first job I get will most likely be part-time.  However, any job that gives me an income of $100/week — whether that’s 10 hours/week at $10/hour, or 12.5 hours/week at $8/hour, etc. — will render me financially independent.  Self-supporting.

My current cash resources will be exhausted come Sunday.

Topics here below:
– Logistics
– Smoking
– Specific housing resources
– Job prospects
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* Hope and vision

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As of March 7, I will have been homeless five years.

This morning I took first concrete steps to get myself into transitional housing.

This is essential if I’m to get job.  For some time, I’ve been living off life insurance policy proceeds, but in the near future, that money will run out.  It’s urgent that I get an income.

The shelter where I’ve been staying is extremely comfortable, perhaps too comfortable, but it has very rigid hours that make it nearly impossible to hold a job while one stays there.  Currently, having to carry my two heavy bags and backpack with me wherever I go, severely limits my ability to commute.  Transitional housing will spell having a place where I can stash my stuff, and freedom to come and go as I please.  I will, for example, be able to take a night job.

Related:  Obstacles to my prosperity

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* Coming changes

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Reblogged 2023-01-19.

10:56.  I have a noon appointment with my therapist.  I’d originally thought to stop downtown for coffee afterwards and then go to the mission.  However, last night I got turned away, so I now think to go straight from my doctor’s office to the mission:  I don’t know how long that walk takes.  If I arrive at the mission at 13:45 and have to stand there idle for 45 minutes — after last night, that’s a price I’m willing to pay.

This morning I’d meant to go up to the doctor’s office early, arriving at 11:00, and then try to find someone in Case Management to help me get into transitional housing.  I came to the library first, but it got to be 10:40, meaning I’d have less than an hour to work with the case manager; so I cancelled that plan for today.  Later this week I’ll have opportunities.

The move into transitional housing, and the transition into that move itself, are likely to bring many changes.

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* This program turned me away.

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Adapted from a 12/03/15 e-mail to my brothers and some others.

Given instability at the shelter where I’ve been for almost five years, I decided to apply to a certain program affiliated with a major national charity and major local soup kitchen.  This program is residential, has a nice facility, and (as I understood it) was geared toward taking men with histories of addiction or homelessness and rendering them self-supporting.

Since it is a residential program, I would no longer have to carry my bags everywhere I go, vastly increasing the radius within which I can look for work; and, I supposed, I would be able to work any shift.  After all, unlike the shelter where I’ve been, they’ve got a big shove towards self-sufficiency.

They rejected me.

I wrote:

Baptismal grace means: when you get knocked down, you get back up.

Blog post (from October ’14, about getting back up): Life in the outer darkness

In the immediate future, I will be checking out options in transitional housing, and case management services at the clinic where I’m currently in treatment for everything I’m in treatment for.

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What happened?

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* If you want to prosper, smile.

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Bookmarks:
If you want to prosper, smile. • Obama condemns political correctness • Hidden factors in the job search • “And he will fleece his flock”

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* I will not be disappointed.

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Friday  2015-03-27

Yesterday in shower I decided to think about things I’d like to have happen.  I settled on dreaming of having a cat: a black and white cat; playing with it, petting it, holding it, feeding it, cleaning up.

This vision has positive ramifications:  it implies I have my own apartment, and that implies I have a decent job.  My own place, my own food, my own clothes:  as far as material things are concerned, I want no more than that out of life.

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o Job search update, 2015-02-02

Job search/Job prospects, The William Tell Show

APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED IN JANUARY 2015:

  • Rite Aid — hourly positions

Most of my energy this  month has gone toward advancing my career in radio.  I produced the first six audition files and anticipate adding a new three-minute commentary each week.  Next steps:

(1) Establish podcasts at soundcloud and iTunes;

(2) Start using an online sound editor for sound-on-sound applications, such as adding background music to existing voiceovers for the public service announcements for Amazing Grace Church;

(3) Become an actual, active participant in the world of Baltimore talk radio, by calling in to the talk shows myself!

o Job search update, 01/05/15

Job search/Job prospects

APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED IN DECEMBER ’14:

Call Center Agent — H&S Bakery

Part Time Scanning Coordinator (#392 Canton Crossing) — Harris Teeter

Private Label Office Clerk (Front Office) — Northeast Foods

Administrative Assistant — Urban Behavioral Associates

Front Desk/Receptionist — Ophthalmology Office Specializing in Glaucoma

Administrative Assistant — Amazon.com

Administrative Assistant — Bombardier

 

Note 12/24/14:  Passed over “Mail room clerk” with Mary Kraft, paying $10.50/hour, full time:  this will not be a job for someone who lives alone.  I cannot work full time and stay at the shelter.  To get my own place, I need to earn $15.00/hour.