Dadgummit. The Wall Street Journal article about being jobless at Christmas ran two days ago without any of my interview being used.
Ah, well. Its still a good read, even if it won’t help my job search after all. Maybe I need to learn how to be a more colorful interviewee?
As far as the issues the article raises, I admit to confronting them, too. At the time of my interview, I told the reporter I thought Christmas would be largely the same. Since that call, I’ve discovered that I see the holidays as more of an obstacle rather than something to celebrate. It’s tough not to blame the holidays for the lack of phone calls: “if only the hiring managers were in the office I’d already be employed.”
If as a kid I thought the wait for Christmas day was excruciatingly long, now the wait for Christmas to be over feels just as long. Sad, isn’t it?
Well, if you had mentioned that you were too embarrassed to return the $8000 ring that you bought your wife they would have certainly gone with it 🙂 I’m betting that you were way too normal and rational to be good copy!
I was unemployed for Christmas 2000. Although in my case, people didn’t realize that the dot com boom was over so I had 4 or 5 job offers by Christmas. I went with the most stable company – Qwest. That worked out well.