Just like that!

Jen and I have worked...always. Quitting our jobs at Escala, packing up and moving - we thought "AWESOME!" we will have some time off! About three days into unemployment, we started freaking out. It was like when you stay home from work for a sick day, and then after about 3 soap operas, an episode of Maury and cruising facebook for the second solid hour, you realize that you actually miss work. Subtract the soaps and Maury and you have us surfing every job website for a week. It felt like a year. Everyone we talked to said "oh yeah, it takes about a month, maybe two to find a good job in the city". We were in a serious panic, wondering if we'd still be friends after a "month or two" trapped in our apartment looking for employment.

We made looking for a job our full time job - only leaving our computers to eat, sleep and make a run to the grocery store where we would carefully select what we could afford and carry back with us on the bus. We found that no matter how many companies we submitted our resumes to, nobody would respond. This is even worse than rejection (which we don't exactly handle well) because it was like we weren't even good enough to get an email back. Granted we only looked for 3 days without hearing a response from someone... it was torturous.

FINALLY, Jen got a call from her recruiter that one of the largest hedge fund companies in the world wanted to hire her on as a temp in the HR department. It is called Man Investments and have a history or hiring temps to test them out before they actually hire them on. Jen says that everyone is extremely nice, welcoming but that it is pretty quiet in the office. We are still trying to figure out how this whole recruiter thing works...

I applied (for the millionth time) to an ad on craigslist for an account executive at a company that produces summits, conferences and networking events all over the country. I had no idea what i wanted to do jumping into the job market... but I decided I'd try sales. Next question: what on earth do I want to sell? Toner to admin assistants for their copy machines? Pharmaceutical sales? Vacuum cleaners? None of this seemed glamorous enough. And then... selling events to C level execs of the top 1000 companies in our country? Sounds good. After three interviews, I start at marcus evans on Tuesday in the summits division. Check it out online if you like...

It seems as though it only took us one week to find jobs. Not bad, not bad at all.

All though we hear unemployment is the new black (thanks, mona), and we'd really be ok if we were stay-at-home-non-moms, getting back to the office will be a great change.