Post by DeeM1962 on Mar 16, 2005 21:55:16 GMT -5
Hey gals!
As some of you may remember, me and my son moved from Mpls./St. Paul to Las Cruces, NM last August. Since then I have been staying, rent free, with my wonderful friend Lisa. Not only does she let me stay rent free, but gave me a car that belonged to her her Mother (who passed away). I'm very grateful to her. We get along fine, and our sons do too. But I am very frustrated and feel a bit "worthless". I haven't found a permanate job yet! I've had 3 temp. jobs, and many interviews. But nothing...and I have ALOT of good experience. I've been in the banking/finance industry and just general clerical experience as well. It's so much harder than I thought it would be because there isn't high turnover here like in the Twin Cities.
All I do (when I'm not working the mesely 8-12 hours a week) is clean house, feed the animals, pick up poop drop off/pick up the boys, run errands. I feel like a frickin' maid sometimes. I certainly don't mind doing these things for Lisa, because she's been SO kind to me and works 12 hour shifts as a nurse. But I want to do these things in my OWN house. And I can't even begin looking for my own place until I have a perm. job.
I had another interview today at Bank Of The West for a Business Banking Assistant and it went well. He said I was the top contender because of all my experience, but he had two more interviews. Jobs here generally pay $6-9/hr which is a culture shock for me because I made at least $12/hr in Minnesota. However this one pays $11.30/hr which is fantastic for this area. The cost of living is lower than MN. so I could easily live comfortably on that.
So please, if you have a chance, say a little prayer for me that I get this job! It's perfect and I am going stir crazy not doing anything. Thanks ladies!
Love you all!
Debbie~*
As some of you may remember, me and my son moved from Mpls./St. Paul to Las Cruces, NM last August. Since then I have been staying, rent free, with my wonderful friend Lisa. Not only does she let me stay rent free, but gave me a car that belonged to her her Mother (who passed away). I'm very grateful to her. We get along fine, and our sons do too. But I am very frustrated and feel a bit "worthless". I haven't found a permanate job yet! I've had 3 temp. jobs, and many interviews. But nothing...and I have ALOT of good experience. I've been in the banking/finance industry and just general clerical experience as well. It's so much harder than I thought it would be because there isn't high turnover here like in the Twin Cities.
All I do (when I'm not working the mesely 8-12 hours a week) is clean house, feed the animals, pick up poop drop off/pick up the boys, run errands. I feel like a frickin' maid sometimes. I certainly don't mind doing these things for Lisa, because she's been SO kind to me and works 12 hour shifts as a nurse. But I want to do these things in my OWN house. And I can't even begin looking for my own place until I have a perm. job.
I had another interview today at Bank Of The West for a Business Banking Assistant and it went well. He said I was the top contender because of all my experience, but he had two more interviews. Jobs here generally pay $6-9/hr which is a culture shock for me because I made at least $12/hr in Minnesota. However this one pays $11.30/hr which is fantastic for this area. The cost of living is lower than MN. so I could easily live comfortably on that.
So please, if you have a chance, say a little prayer for me that I get this job! It's perfect and I am going stir crazy not doing anything. Thanks ladies!
Love you all!
Debbie~*