baroqueMorales

I decided to start this process of remedial documentation of my personal processes and progress for several key reasons.  Need mechanism to track what I've been doing with my time, what works and what does not.  Feel the need to write to rebuild language facility, memory, retention and to combat unemployment-related depression.   My personal productivity today was as follows...and this is how productive I should be everyday.  Woke early 6am before construction crew was to arrive to work on building-wide project.  Was dressed and working by 7:30.  Spent morning searching for and applying for jobs.  Did some outreach to recruiters, old contacts and requested informational interview with someone doing my target job of Media Producer at Expedia.  Have social meeting scheduled for this afternoon in Seattle and informational interview scheduled for Thursday morning.  Prioritized rest of afternoon finalizing, printing and sending response requir...

Back on the job market, I'm overwhelmed with the to do list and decided to attempt documenting my progress here.  I had very recently accepted a new full time position as a helpdesk analyst, but made a plethora of what I thought were low-level errors that resulted in my being "not recommended past probationary period" as in "please turn in your badge, keys and bus pass."  Did the walk of shame out the door and long bus ride home.  This has been a galvanizing experience in that I realized just how much time I wasted in the preceding months.  There is always so much to do, but I found that when you are in the middle of a protracted length of unemployment that it becomes harder and harder to prioritize tasks and feel productive.  You just have so much apparent time on your hands that everything can be put off until tomorrow.  Unfortunately, without the normal need based tasks, you can pretty much just stop living for awhile which is exactly what I did.  T...