Reply from Gail re: Is the recession over if you're jobless? | Marketplace From American Public Media (fwd)

[Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>]

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:37:40 -0800
From: Gail <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
To: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
Subject: Reply from Gail re: Is the recession over if you're jobless? |
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Hi Noelle,

Thanks for the information. So far here in the Goleta/Santa Barbara area as far 
as I know, none of the personnel agencies have had any job openings including 
temporary in the accounting field that would be suitable for me for the last 6 
months it seems because I keep asking and contacting them. I get the feeling 
that personnel agencies here are dead in the water with pretty much no jobs for 
anyone, but of course I will keep trying. In the meantime as of 12/26 I have 
gotten an unpaid part-time internship for a non-profit through SBCC's Sheinfeld 
Center for Entrepreneurship for this semester to start right away. I will be 
gaining more experience with non-profits, QuickBooks, start-ups, Business 
Planning, and Strategic Planning plus this will help me to regain my confidence 
which has ebbed having been unemployed for so long. I feel this opportunity 
could lead to other things later on. For ex. if I end up really liking this 
organization, the owner is going to try to get major funding and could then be 
able to pay me if I want to stay on. The owner is very flexible and realizes 
that if I get another paid full-time job, I can stop my work with her at any 
time, and she will just feel grateful for any help I have given her to that 
point. Of course I will continue to job hunt while working this part-time 
internship.

Thank you and Robert again for your wonderful Christmas gift of the pretty 
Fall/Thanksgiving theme quilted table runner and the gold tablecloth and green 
napkins. We actually returned the tablecloth you gave us to get the next size 
smaller so that the ends wouldn't hang down so much when we are entertaining 
fewer people, so it's perfect now. We look forward to using them in the future.

The day before yesterday my car's battery stopped functioning very suddenly and 
was completely corroded without any warning fortunately while in our carport, 
so I had to buy a new one as it had passed the 3 year warranty deadline by 9 
days which was annoying. We were glad it didn't happen while we were on our 
trip to Healdsburg and back.

We hope you have a very nice New Year's Eve celebration. What will you be doing?
 We will be at the Yacht Club for a dinner/dance with many of "the group".

Gail

   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Noelle
   To: http://www.cox.net/~g3
   Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 6:06 PM
   Subject: Is the recession over if you're jobless? | Marketplace From 
   American Public Media

   
   http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/12/29/pm-jobless-recover-q/
   

   according to this, getting a temp job is where to start