Well, now, here we are planning for the house, getting ready for the big crop to start, and guess what happens this morning?!? Mikey gets a lay-off notice; yup, that's right, a lay-off. Curses!!!
Why a lay-off? Well, my job is, and has been for almost 3 years, teaching adult vocational courses. 99% of the students that I have gotten have been through the WSIB (Worker Safety Insurance Board) LMR (Labour Market Reentry) program. This program is meant to take workers that have been injured in a job, and that are unable to continue their line of work, retrain them for a new career path, and then assist them in getting starting on that path; usually through a job placement program. This program has been managed by third party companies that run different social work programs (eg. March of Dimes). About a year and a half ago, WSIB decided that this was not working and they were going to take direct control over the program and it's daily running. So, after that decision, can anybody guess how many students WSIB has released in that time frame? Anybody? Yes, you guess right, none! NONE!!
Well, as you can guess, as the students have trickled down to nothing, many of the centres have started closing down. And finally, the day came that I got the ol' lay-off notice. Well, luckily, I had been expecting something of the sort (although it happened a lot sooner than I thought it would). I have been putting my resume out for a couple of weeks to any jobs that I am even remotely qualified for (sure, I could a CNC lathe, why not??).
Unfortunately, as one might imagine, Orillia is not the best of cities to go and find a lucrative job in, and that has been very evident in my search over the past month or two. Most jobs that are available I am overqualified for, and of course, never hear from them. I talked to an employment counselor a while ago, and do you know what her advice was about my resume? "Take your university degree off. It's too intimidating to many of the employers in the city." What?? Take off the degree? Yup, that's right, take it off. The wife of one of Thamara's colleagues at the university moved down to be with her husband, and has been looking for a job for over a month, and she has had zero call-backs. She was a higher-up in the Lakehead Thunder Bay campus, and she can't find a single job right now. Argh!!!
But, as luck would have it, I have been interviewed and offered a job. It is only a part-time position, and is a very entry-level position, but it is a job. Oh, and it's back in retail. Oh, and it's at the Future Shop. Alright, well, it's little bit cool because of all the fun merchandise, and yes, I do get an employee discount. So, regardless, I have a job again. It means it is back to working on the weekends, but at least I have something
Yay, retail!!
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