Not sure where to start

As of about 10:30am, I am unemployed. It has nothing to do with performance. It was a budgetary decision. Thanks to our lovely economy. And here I thought the trouble wasn’t affecting us as much up here in ND as it was in other parts of the country. I guess I was wrong.

So, I’m on the job hunt … again. This so sucks. Especially since it had nothing to do with me. I just wish I had had more notice. I mean … if you know there’s no room in the budget for my position, let me know so that I can start planning instead of freaking out at what I’m going to do.

At least I don’t have to worry about cleaning out an office since I work at home. I already have my work laptop and external hard drive packed up. Justin is picking it up around 12:30pm or so. Now I have plenty of room on my desk. LOL

I’m trying really hard not to completely lose it. But it’s hard to keep the tears away. Things were finally going good for me. I liked my job, even though I got pissy at times. But who doesn’t. And things were going good financially. I’ve been planning to start house hunting at the end of next summer. I guess that won’t happen now. I’m just glad I wasn’t looking this year and just moved into a house. Then I REALLY would have been screwed.

So now I need to sit down and figure out what to do next. The logical things are updating my resume and filing for unemployment. But then what? Where do I start looking for a job? Is there anything around here? Or am I going to have to move? I really don’t want to move. Amazingly, a couple local people on Twitter DM’d me. At least that’s somewhere to start.

I guess I’ll be paying more attention to the job postings in the paper. And I should probably call the local agencies. And I should also probably get some clothes for interviews that actually fit well and are comfortable. But I don’t want to have to spend money for clothes. But I can’t get a job if I go to an interview looking like a slob.

If anyone reading this knows of anyone in the Fargo/Moorhead area, or anywhere in region, who is looking to hire a web developer, please let me know. You don’t know how much I would appreciate it.