Posted 9/2/2013 9:57 PM (GMT 0)
1. My insurance is officially gone! Tomorrow, I will head out to the local therapist, and arrange an appointment on the sliding, no-insurance scale. My medications are good for the time-being, and (knock wood) I ought to be fine until I get more insurance.
2. It's time to get serious about finding a job. While I continue to work to try to get a job that will be satisfying to my experience and education, I will go to the temp agency and make contact with them. I need to be doing something, now that the paycheck has stopped rolling in.
3. I made a reservation to the state's program called JumpStart, for professional types being back in the workforce. The two day seminar is in two weeks.
4. It's time to go visit the local unemployment office, and see if they can give me any help, suggestions, or a kick in the rear.
For those who haven't been following the saga, I quit my university job of four years in May. I was not being asked to leave. My health was poor, my relationship was long-distance, and my administration extremely poor. It was time to leave, even knowing that this meant leaving academic life. Depression, always near, has really set-in, as I have been in some sort of teaching capacity for over twenty years. My fibro is -okay- for the time-being, and my crohn's is being better controlled by diet.
In other words, time to stop navel gazing and start with some sort of action. What I find might not be ideal, but it's a step up from nothing.