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Six months and still no job!

Hello All! I know if anyone would understand my current situation, it's the people on this messaging system. I was "let go" from my job on August 1st of 2016. Since I'm in the bank industry and I left on good terms with my last employer, I've had many people in the industry refer me to others in Commercial Banking. Since August, I've reached out to many people but few with actual job openings. I recently interviewed with a bank who wouldn't be ready to hire until early summer. I'm also waiting to hear back from another bank that i interviewed with three weeks ago. When I met with them they told me that they were interviewing six out of many applicants and at the time that they had already narrowed it down to four and I was one of the four. Ive since spoken with them but they still had one more interview to do and that was last Monday. I left a message today inquiring about the status but haven't heard back. In the meantime, I just received my last unemployment payment, I'm a single woman with bills to pay. I met with a temp agency back in November as my "Plan B" and spoke with them yesterday about needing to work. They have a couple of potential jobs for me but, I'm starting to lose my patience with this whole job search. I have bachelors degree in business and I've taken job specific training over the past couple of years and a college course specific to my job this past semester. I'm trying to stay positive and have faith that I will land a job soon and everything will fall into place but today I had a meltdown and could use some words of wisdom from those who have conquered this mission!! Thank you!!

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Mary Andersen
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Administrative Specialist at County Government

You might have some success with substitute teaching - really is not that bad and the daily pay works out. In my past life, I needed 12 days a month to survive. Maybe you can figure that out for yourself and feel more in control. Keep doing the right things and the right things will happen!

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Mark Semien
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Driver at Pro Drivers

Dont give up

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Mariah Bliss
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Hi Caroline: Sounds like you're going through a bit of a rough patch in your job search - BUT you have lots of different leads that will eventually lead you to where you want to be! If you don't hear back from the bank about the job role by Friday, I would give them a call again on Monday to check in. Also, start the ball rolling on those temp jobs, so at least you have something lined up. I have a good feeling you'll find something - it's just a matter of employers getting off their collective behinds and moving faster!

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