I just read the blog of an online friend of mine, someone that I know well electronically but have never met despite our living two blocks from each other when I had an address. Her career path was strikingly similar to mine in many ways and I’ve used her as a gauge for what should be going on with me.

She’s been marginally employed the last couple years too and has worked all of a couple days in the last four or so months. Previously to that she was working about two months on and two or three months off at some so called “permanent” positions that never seemed to last. And it wasn’t her fault either as before being let go she’d be complaining of having nothing to do at work and having to pretend to be busy for days or weeks at a stretch.

Fortunately for her she has unemployment insurance and a husband who invests in real estate so they don’t really need her income anyways, but she actually likes what she does for a living and wants to contribute to a more comfortable lifestyle for her household. As such she comment that yet another day of job searching has yielded no phone calls or emails–which has been the case for several months now for her.
We’ve both been subjected to the whims of a poor economy, a shifting and disintegrating job market and global outsourcing. But she fortunately has her husband to fall back on. For myself and many others though there is no such safety net. But still, it’s been comforting to know that she’s okay and I’m not purely at fault for being so financially impaired.

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