| WEDNESDAY 2016-10-12 |
| CVS |
| E-mailed my contact at the corporate office about change in availability. |
Category Archives: Job search/Job prospects
o Job search diary 10/05/16 – 10/11/16
| WEDNESDAY 2016-10-05 |
| CVS – 101 N. Wolfe St. |
| Attempted to return P____’s call. Phone just rang and rang. |
* Job search diary 09/21/16 – 10/04/16
| THURSDAY 2016-09-22 |
| CVS |
| Using the more advanced terminal at church, was able to complete the Virtual Job Tryout. So now I have six complete, active applications in at CVS! |
o Job search diary 09/08/16 – 09/20/16
| THURSDAY 2016-09-08 |
| CVS |
| Visited site using a Mac in a different part of the church office. Had to change password. Was unable to access any information about my previous applications. No current openings suitable for me in Maryland. Will need to ask someone more familiar with this terminal to help me turn on the sound. |
| The availability of this terminal to me is a game-changer, as I will be able to access numerous other sites, e.g. Target, that had only been available to me at the library. However, I will also need someone to teach me the basic Mac keyboard shortcuts; I’m only familiar with Windows. |
* Take things in stride
16:03 Thursday 2016-09-08
A case on point.
Today as I walked toward the shelter, I contemplated that I am likely to have no smokes during the day tomorrow. How will I handle this; how will I feel about it? Factors:
• How important is it, compared to other things I may attend to?
• Can I take things in stride?
• (There was a third one, that escapes me just now.)
Then I arrived at the shelter. It was 15:25, and the gate was locked. In the end, I got turned away.
For the second time in two days.
* Must I work for Rent-a-Bum?
(Originally published 08/11/12 at Trojan Horse Productions; reblogged 10/30/13 here.)
If you go into a men’s room and see that someone’s taken his backpack and perhaps suitcase with him into the stall, you can conclude two things: (1) He’s homeless. (2) In his world, squalor is so intense he can’t leave his bags anywhere, or things will be stolen.
All kinds of people steal from the homeless.
They’ll steal your socks. It may only be a pair of socks, but if it’s your only pair of socks, it really hurts.
I stood smoking outside Dunkin’ Donuts and this man came up to talk. He was looking pretty rough. Walked on crutches, and one bare foot. He told me he’d spent the night outside, and while he slept, someone stole one shoe.
One of the few shreds of dignity left to me is that I don’t have to take my bags with me into the bathroom stall. At Dunkin’ Donuts or Lenny’s or the library, I leave my bags in a certain place and they’re all still there when I return. At the shelter, I stash my bags under the bunk, and no one disturbs them. I do lock the bag that has my phone, my cash and my prescriptions (link).
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I knew I was likely to become homeless months before it actually happened. I had contacts with the City’s Office of Homeless Services and obtained a list of shelters Continue reading * Must I work for Rent-a-Bum?
o Job search diary 08/17/16 – 09/07/16
| FRIDAY 2016-08-19 |
| Under Armour |
| Attempted to call back the person who called me, but apparently went into someone else’s voice mail. Left message. Called back and left message at what appears to be the general HR voice mail. |
* Attack of the white people
* Job search strategies – The very beginning
I have been asked to help a couple young men in the congregation find work.
For me to write this at this juncture, when I myself don’t have work, may seem silly. However, the strategies don’t change. They may find work before I do.
Below appears information about some temp agencies I’m aware of. Their mention here does not imply any endorsement. I will update this post from time to time as I obtain more information.
I will discuss searching for “permanent” jobs in a later post.
Continue reading * Job search strategies – The very beginning
* “Every thought is a prayer.”
The seductiveness of turmoil.
Thursday, August 25, 2016
My foremost task for today is to keep myself focused on the practical things I need to do to improve my lot in life.
They can be seen as boring, mundane, dreary, tedious, and so on — if I fail to love myself enough to actually want to do them.
Accordingly, this morning I was reading through various news articles, and on one page, at the end, the links to “related” articles included this:
I didn’t read the article, but boy, just that headline really got my engines going. I can’t remember the last time I was in a setting where someone might have been told, “Check your privilege.” Normally this is addressed to a white person, and, as I’ve noted before, in my world there aren’t enough white people to matter.
The Homeless Blogger 