The Road Forward

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Lewis Carroll 

I got a temp job setting appointments for ThermoSpa, the hot tub people. We'll see how it goes. They seem like nice folks. It's hourly plus bonuses, so I'm cool with that. I find it hard to believe there is a demand for hot tubs in this economy. But then again, lots of things surprise me. 

things get stranger

I have applied to Samsung jobs (seester works there) in places such as California, Kansas and Texas (bleck!) And now I am applying for an ESL job in Minot, ND, just two hours from the Canadian border.

How did it come to this?

North Dakota is preferable to S. Korea, I guess.

I guess.

The Winnipeg Jets would be the local hockey team, I suppose.

Something

Looking at jobs in many places - it's surreal. Who knows what will happen. 

Something. Something will happen. It always does.

Until then, i'm just along for the walk.

Back to the Drawing Board

You may ask yourself, how do I work this? 
You may ask yourself, where is that large automobile? 
You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful house 
You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful wife
-Talking Heads 

And so the die is cast. After 11 months of looking for a job in the USA - any job; Target, Subway, Lowe's, waiter/bartender, customer service - I give up. I just sent my CV for a teaching job in S. Korea. May the god i don't believe in have mercy on my soul.

Jobs are flying out of CT faster than bats out of Hell's basement (where Hitler, Genghis Khan, Oliver Cromwell and Ronald Reagan play Texas Hold'em.) I a masters degree and I can't get a job making sandwiches. I have tried to repatriate. I have tried to make a go of it here. But there is truly nothing for me. So to quote Jimi Hendrix, Good-bye everybody!

I was brought up to believe

Belief has failed me now

The bright glow of optimism

Abandoned me somehow

-Rush

The American Dream

4th of July! My 1st in the USA in 7 years! And how am i spending it? I am spending it applying to an ESL teaching job in Dubai.

I lost my job at working familes, which i had known would happen. Raising $600 a week by going door to door is impossible. And I have been looking for jobs for a year now. So, if I can get a good paying job in Dubai, maybe i'll take it. Give up booze and women for a year and write another novel. Walk into the desert for 40 days and be tempted by the Devil (which is probably the ONLY way to have fun over there.) The middle class is dying on the vine here, and i'll be damned if i'll die with it. I have to do a Skype interview and i'll ask lots of questions. I have nothing to lose and a job to gain. 

Either way, life goes on. I have to do something, and I've had just about enough of the waiting game.