As I said before, living couch to couch was great for a while, but I was ready to hang up my clothes and have all the food I like eating in the refridgerator.
Lucky for me, another friend came to the rescue, inviting me to share his home in Minnesota while I continue with this post-grad job hunt. So, here I am now, in Minneapolis, Minnesota spending my days editing and re-writing cover letters and resumes, sending them on to companies, and just really hoping that something will come to fruit soon. In the meantime, I've also been practicing a lot of yoga, reading, and devising a few internet-based ideas that, once I find an unemployed friend who is awesome at website engineering, I think could really be something amazing.
Of utmost importance is the fact that I am still adventuring to my hearts extent. Minneapolis is freezing (since I arrived 2 weeks ago we've been excited for a high of 30) cold, but I've never been here and it's actually a very interesting and dynamic city thus far. I've found a yoga studio, One Yoga, that is non-profit and allows members to pay on an income based scale. I got to go visit SkillsUSA friends in Kansas City for Thanksgiving. And the house I'm living in has a workout room which gives me plenty of activity to do even though I can't go for a run outside. I'd say that life is pretty good considering I'm unemployed. But, as my friend Samantha brought to my attention, unemployment should be taken advantage of, hence I consider myself more in a period of Funemployment. I'm getting the most out of all this free time that I can including trying to learn some website design/programming, free online Spanish lessons, and lots of reading.
Tonight I'll be going to a networking event through MNWC (Minneapolis Women in Marketing and Communications) and I've followed more companies around the country on Twitter than I can keep up with some days. The great thing though is that I'm finding lots of interesting jobs, now it's just a point of getting hired for one of them!
I'm also going to be starting my own website, through which my blogs will be available and my professional and personal stuff (resume, work examples, blogs, photos, fun stuff too). Yet another thing I first need to learn to do before I can make it happen. But it's coming soon, promise.
Of course, if you know of a job that may suit me I'd be very happy to become employed (I do get bored rather often) but for now I'm very fortunate to have a roof over my head and wonderful friends supporting me along my journey. Stay in tune with this blog to see what I'm up to while I search for a job and figure out life after college!
3 things:
ReplyDelete1) I don't like this blog as much as the travel one because there is not a shout out to my awesomeness prominently displayed anywhere on it (at least not that I can find...)
2) I may not know how to code, but I can help you set up a website easily enough. I did one for myself, which has gone through a couple iterations, and will hopefully soon see yet another...especially if I can learn some HTML5 or CSS along the way...
3) Do you know Roxanne R from Student Foundation (or anything else...)? She is at UMN for grad school...you should look her up!
I like Minnesota. It was a neat place. (...okay, I guess that ended up being 4 things. 5 if you count this aside...)