Background

I was laid off on 4/15/2009. Thanks. Not only did I lose my job for the second time in a year ( I got laid off in May of '08 too!) I also had to pay my fucking taxes on the same fucking day. Considering I'm a liberal there was some irony to the whole thing, but I'm still figuring it all out.

To be honest, the first lay off wasn't terrible. The economy was bad but not awful, I had 8 weeks severance, several months of insurance and it was summer. It didn't suck. It also didn't hurt that I got a job before my severance ran out and even got an overlap check!

This time, the economy is subterranean and being employed only 9 months I got a whopping one week of severance (well technically 3 but that's a whole story you don't need to know.) Whoopeee! These facts trump the good weather.

So on April 16 I began my job search in the Boston area where I have lived for the last 4 years. Now I must begin by saying that I have a decent skill set and have never had difficulty getting interviews and have about a 90% success rate in being offered a job after interviewing. Because well, I'm awesome. But no need to tell you that as you will learn that on your own. ;)

That said, I sent out dozens of applications online, contacted numerous head hunters and waited for some phone calls. And waited, and waited and waited. Over a month went by and I had not spoken to a soul. This was disconcerting. Well, more than that it was terrifying.

While doing my job search I noticed that for every job that fell within my search criteria there were about 10 jobs in NYC (close to where I grew up and where I worked for 5 years)

I also heard horror stories of people unemployed for 6 months, 10 months, and over a year. The longest I've ever been out of work is maybe 8 weeks at most so this completely freaked me out.

This along with other considerations I won't bore you with I made the hardest decision of my life to move back to NY and even more difficult move to move in with my folks until I have a job. This will save money during the indefinite period of unemployment. Also, once I do find a job the location will determine what part of the City makes the most sense to live in.

So I've given notice to my landlord (my lease will end at the end of July) began my NY job search, even started packing and bringing stuff down to Long Island where my parents live ahem, where I'll be living...

I don't know how long this is going to be for, so do me a favor and Pray for me! ;)