Another Job Fair

Waiting for a half an hour to speak for less than five minutes to a recruiter from a staffing agency at a local job fair today, I met a man close to my father's age. He said he has two teenagers and he's been looking for work since September.

Given the anxiety that I'm already beginning to feel three months into the search for my next new position, I can only imagine how I would feel if I had more than my cat, Lizzie, depending on me for income. Stressful as the unemployment situation has been, I feel grateful that it's just me.

I've started this blog to describe the ups and downs of job searching during the so-called "economic crisis." Of course, in developing my blogging media skills I am also hopeful that this blog will not last long as a chronicle of unemployment but rather will become an exercise in writing.

One last note on job fairs- they would be so much more useful if they had actual jobs on offer.