The Former Telescope Mercenary

Friday, April 06, 2007

First Week of Unemployment

Well this was the first week of being without a job. I promised myself that I would do almost nothing towards my future as I didn't want to strain myself by jumping right into the job hunt. The advice on this seems to have changed since my last bout with unemployment. I didn't completely slug out: I did apply for unemployment and now resent my former employer for using poor terms, dates and other issues on the termination form they gave to me. Is there a difference between 'Severence Pay' and 'Seperation Payment'? Not to my eyes, but the former is the term preferred by the NJ Unemployment insurance (motto: You paid us for nothing, get over it) wheras the more 'PC' term seems to be used by my former employer to be more of a warm fuzzy. Either way, confusion ensued and I was battered between two beaurocracies.

I also did some more research on wholesalers and have been looking at a few candidates from SCORE, which is a good resource to help folks starting their own business. Next week I plan to start work on a business plan. I also want to dust off my resume just in case my plans fall apart in the early stages.

Wish me luck folks. This is unkown territory for me.

2 Comments:

At 11:12 AM, Blogger Brunissende said...

Good luck

 
At 4:51 PM, Blogger Wendi said...

I second that -- keep us posted!

 

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