Fairly productive couple of weeks

I've actually been doing pretty well & trying hard to progress over the last two weeks.

I've posted my resume tons of places, like craigslist, and updated my resume at places like monster, careerbuilder, and jobing.com. I'm also checking at indeed for openings.

I had two job interviews last week, one at Michaels for an hourly position (that I unfortunately didn't qualify for), and one at a publishing company for a Production Artist & Data Entry job. I haven't heard back on the second one yet. It will be a temp position from November to February though, so I'm hoping my interview tomorrow goes well.

Tomorrow I'm interviewing for an office position at a hotelier/real estate company. I'm to help with general tasks whenever they buy property. It's a rather vague job description so I should have more details on that later. It looks like a well-paying job, so I'm hoping I get it.

In the meantime, I've narrowed down my graphic design portfolio to 7 samples that I've put in two-pocket folders w/ prongs in the middle. I'm putting the portfolio pieces in page protectors & binding them in there, with my cover letter & resume in the front & back pockets respectively. My business card is also included. Tomorrow, on top of my job interview, I'll be driving around town handing these portfolio folders to whoever's in charge at various ad agencies, big & small, around town. Hopefully it's a decent enough presentation to show that I'm serious, and will at least get me a few calls back or e-mails. I'm extremely nervous, to be honest, but I need to try.

I'm wondering if I shouldn't just get a McJob in the meantime. It's just alot of effort to get even a retail job, so I figure if I'm gonna put forth so much effort, it's gonna be for a job that I LIKE and can stay at! I'm just so tired of the job search after all this time. I've had to do it over & over again for the last two years and I'm exhausted. I want to find something stable that I'll stay at. At the same time though, I REALLY need some income. With neither of us working, and a child involved, it's much harder to figure out what to do. But I refuse to get stuck in analysis paralysis. I had to do something, so tomorrow is yet another big job hunt day.

Also, I'm working on eating better. My sister today told me about a program on her iPhone that calculates her nutritional intake each day & lets her know what she needs more of, and what she needs to cut down on. I'm trying to find an equivalent for my computer. It's hard to eat healthy when you're broke though - Lean Cuisine frozen dinners are 2 or 3 times the cost of a cheapy Banquet meal after all, and those are the inexpensive option! So I do my best to at least get all my food groups. (Vegetables are a challenge. I wish they weren't taught as the same food group as fruits when I was a kid...)

More updates later!