Trying to stay positive
Today he was told that previously, job postings that would attract about 150-200 resumes – in this economy, are currently attracting in the range of 2000 resumes.
Ugh.
I can’t even begin to express my frustration and worry right now. I honestly have no idea what’s coming next, and I’m becoming more and more afraid to find out. I’m desperately trying to hang on to that little glimmer of hope that “something good is going to come from this” but when faced with a statistic like that… I don’t even want to tell you what’s going through my head right now…
My name is Jennifer and The Working Mom is my online journal. I'm very bad about updating it regularly. I like writing, but not as much as I 
What helps me is to look at things in my life RIGHT NOW that are aweseome. Things like “we’re all healthy” or “I don’t have any grey hair” or “since John isn’t working, now we can spend more time together” or “we may be in an apartment now, but at least we don’t have to do yardwork”. For several months, the only thing I had to keep me going was “Well, if we’re going to be broke and unemployed, at least we’re not in Utah anymore”