Greetings Non-Believers!

Greetings!

I was once just like the majority of you just over a month ago. I had a long term job that was slowly turning into a nowhere career. I never would have imagined that my life would flip upside down and I would join the ranks of the now 9% or more statistic that is the unemployed. It was not until I read an article about unemployed workers giving up on their searches that I began to think of what I could do to perhaps help.

Let me give you some information about myself, as this is after all my first posting;

My name is Terry and I am the Disgruntled Un-Employee. I live on the Gulf Coast in Mississippi, halfway between New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama. On June 29th, 2009 I was relieved of my duties as a retail sales manager for a rather large video game retail specialty chain. You know who I am referring to, I'll refrain from divulging their name for my own good. I'm twenty-seven years old with over ten years of retail experience, and over eight as a manager of some sort, let us not forget five as an actual store manager. I'm more than excellent with people, as you have to be in order to do what I did for as many years as I have done. Yet, now I am stuck in the unemployment line each week wishing and wondering why I can't find myself a decent job?

You hear the most common excuses of, "Oh, but there just aren't jobs out there." Or, "The employers have so many people to choose from now that I am not even being considered." This may or may not be true. Honestly I'm no expert, I can only tell you from my own personal experience. However, my own personal experience is rather lacking as I have only heard from one company in the last month about my application. Their reason for not hiring me was because the job had just recently been filled. It hasn't stopped me yet. In the last month I have applied to over twenty companies and over twenty-five positions. Yet, still to this day, only one company has responded only to tell me no.

I can see where the unemployed might become discouraged. I'm not giving up, and I won't give up. This streak is the longest I have ever been unemployed and to be honest, it is killing me. I would rather be working than sitting at home staring at this computer searching for jobs on all the jobsearch websites and such. Even going to the companies locations have been a failure. They all tell you to check their website, submit an online application and they'll get back to you. If you read my previous paragraph you already know that isn't true. I even went to one site and it said they had no job openings, even after the employee I spoke to told me they were hiring for a Manager-in-training (MIT). Followup to this site for two consecutive weeks resulted in no changes on the site, and the employee at this "numbered" lumber company swears he cannot help me on the matter.

Hopefully change is in the air and soon I will be getting tons of feedback and responses from companies I have applied for. Perhaps that is why I am beginning this blog. History has always proven that once I start something, somehow it ends abruptly. So maybe, just maybe this will cause the planets and stars to allign and get me a job. A man can dream, can't he?

Remember my friends; things can change in a heartbeat. What you think could never happen, can and possibly will happen in this world that we now live in. It is not the same world you grew up in as a child, it is a whole new world. So believe... believe that you too can be a statistic, and do whatever you can to prevent that from ever happening.

Happy hunting,