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* Jimmy, part 2
Thursday 2014-07-03. Jimmy came up to me at McDonald’s yesterday and sat down and talked about the incident. He doesn’t say he’d been drinking. He says people thought he’d been drinking.
Recall his psychiatric diagnoses.
Pastor sent me this clipping about the homeless squatters’ camp underneath the Jones Falls Expressway, which the City was about to raze — again. He thought the housing vouchers it mentions might be available to me. They’re not. A different detail caught my eye: the remark that many people in the camp “struggle with mental illness and addiction.” Note the “and.”
* Job search update, 09/01/14
INTERVIEWS IN AUGUST:
Secretary II – City Health Department, 08/26/14
Tuesday 08/26/14: I interviewed this morning for the position of Secretary II with the City Health Department.
My success depended on my performance overcoming my appearance. This was the fourth interview I’ve had since becoming homeless, and the first time that my appearance was an issue. As things went, by the time I left McDonald’s for the interview itself, my nerves were shot.
* Treasures in heaven redux
Saturday, May 17, 2014. Another deep med session this morning. Afterwards, I considered my upcoming (May 22) interview for a different secretarial position at the Water Department. I’m not as excited about it as I feel I ought to be.
Matthew 6:
19“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; 20but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Man, do I ever want to go out and smoke again. I smoked immediately before this writing.
Continue reading * Treasures in heaven redux
o Job search update, 08/04/14
I didn’t do too well this month.
Applications submitted in July ’14:
Administrative Assistant (Baltimore, MD) – Quest Group
Back Office Administrative Clerk – Gross Mendelsohn & Associates
Store Clerk Part Time – Save-a-Lot
Administrative Specialist – The Aspen Group
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On my brothers’ unanimous advice, I am cashing in all my life insurance policies. Once those proceeds are on hand, I will be able to apply for jobs with any-hours-whatsoever. I will be free from the shelter’s rigid hours, because once I get such a job I can stay in a hotel until I can get my own place.
This assumes the job pays at least $30K.
In the meantime I’ll need to be looking primarily for part-time jobs that will let me save up money while I continue to stay at the shelter. These are subject to the shelter’s rigid hours, however.
* Nemesis of the morning glories
The job search feels like an endless exercise in futility.
I recently launched a new hobby that may help me persevere.
It involves the unusual tactic of seeking emotional discomfort.
Continue reading * Nemesis of the morning glories
* Job search update, 07/07/14
Applications submitted in June ‘14:
Medical Administrative Assistant – Ultimate Staffing Services
Data Entry – Randstad Professionals
Office Clerk – MedMark Services, Inc.
State of Maryland – OFFICE SERVICES CLERK #14-001376-015
State of Maryland – CONTRACTUAL-OFFICE PROCESSING CLERK II
Continue reading * Job search update, 07/07/14
* Keep the focus on you
(Originally published 09/15/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 03/28/19.)
Teddy is an old man. He wears a rosary around his neck, and never fails to “testify” in chapel. “I talk to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost every day,” he says. Every time there’s an altar call, he runs right up there to get born-again — again. Five times a week, he’ll do that.
He got barred out a year ago for selling someone oxycontin.
Friday night 09/07/12, he came back. He insists to everyone that he’s never been here before, and said he wants to get into the program.
Aside from those things, he hasn’t changed at all. Still all the same empty religious talk.
Sunday night he said he changed his mind about the program. They require you to sign over all your benefits, and he’s not willing to do that. That tells me you don’t want to get well.
I get bad feelings every time I see him.
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Sitting outside waiting to be let in, Wednesday 08/29/12 Fallon and a couple other guys I don’t like too much got into reminiscing about how this shelter used to be, years ago, before the renovation. This upset me.
o Job search update, 06/02/14
Positions applied to in May 2014:
Office Assistant – Anatomical Lab – UMMS –Job ID #: 32309
MC Administrative Asst, Post Acute Services Job – UMMS – Job ID #: 32498
Unit Secretary – Medical Acute 11E Job – UMMS – Job ID #: 32633
Administrative Assistant – Therapeutic Living for Families
Checked “Jobs at Pratt” 05/13/14
Data Entry – Randstad
Administrative/Office Assistant – Beacon Hill Group, LLC
Administrative Assistant II – Gaudenzia, Inc.
Legal Secretary – Travelers
Administrative Assistant – USIC – S2
Administrative Assistant- Part Time – Pennrose Management
* Job search status: Pep talk
(Originally posted 12/26/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 09/06/18.)
A week ago today I had a highly successful interview at a dollar store. There may be one obstacle that, if it’s there, cannot be overcome; but if it’s not there, I’ll have to take a drug test and go for a second interview at which the actual job offer will be made. In the days since, there have been some communications glitches. Meanwhile, time goes on.
This morning in my last five minutes at Lenny’s, I prayed about this, reflecting on (1) my disappointment to have had no word so far and (2) the path by which I got here.
I just completed a two-month “job readiness” program … not as if I needed any program to make me “ready” for a job, but this one is unique in that while one is taking classes, they have scouts hunting down specific job opportunities that well match each candidate. That is the big factor I see missing for most people in the big picture.
Was the class a waste of time? Continue reading * Job search status: Pep talk
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