Graffiti62
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Since quitting my job as a computer technician for a large hospital in Green Bay and moving my family up to Michigan's Upper Peninsula in late 2009, being laid off twice, being on unemployment, and working as a temp contractor for the State Police, I FINALLY have a gainful, permanent, full-time job! Starting in around two weeks, I start my new job as a regional service technician for Pitney-Bowes. It'll be my job to service and maintain all of the Pitney-Bowes mail stamping and sorting equipment for the western half of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. I'll be able to pay off bills, set aside dough to retire on, and finally get back to putzing around with guitars after what feels like forever.
I still feel like it's surreal, because after you've spent a couple of years busting your hump to get back to where you were, it becomes something you're so used to that it feels strange when you don't have to do it anymore. When I spoke to my new manager after I accepted the job offer, he told me that he felt my gratitude through the phone. He told me "I have a hunch you've had a rough go, but I know that you'll be the last guy in the company to take his job for granted or to slack on it, which I admire."
I admit that a rough go helps to build your character up, but it's the last thing you realize when things around you tend to suck. But, when things suck, it makes you work harder and snatch up every opportunity you can get. I was blessed to have someone at MichiganWorks, the state-run employment assistance agency, to help me out so much by getting my resume streamlined, making sure that I still had my spark for interviews, helping pick me up when I was told so many times that I was overqualified for positions (or not someone's neighbor or cousin), and getting state-appointed funding for me to get my CompTIA A+ PC Repair certification, which helped me land the Pitney-Bowes position, honestly no more than a week after I became certified.
For my friends on here who may be going through a rough patch finding a good job at this time, I'm proof to say that it will get better, and it'll feel like such an elation when it happens.
I still feel like it's surreal, because after you've spent a couple of years busting your hump to get back to where you were, it becomes something you're so used to that it feels strange when you don't have to do it anymore. When I spoke to my new manager after I accepted the job offer, he told me that he felt my gratitude through the phone. He told me "I have a hunch you've had a rough go, but I know that you'll be the last guy in the company to take his job for granted or to slack on it, which I admire."
I admit that a rough go helps to build your character up, but it's the last thing you realize when things around you tend to suck. But, when things suck, it makes you work harder and snatch up every opportunity you can get. I was blessed to have someone at MichiganWorks, the state-run employment assistance agency, to help me out so much by getting my resume streamlined, making sure that I still had my spark for interviews, helping pick me up when I was told so many times that I was overqualified for positions (or not someone's neighbor or cousin), and getting state-appointed funding for me to get my CompTIA A+ PC Repair certification, which helped me land the Pitney-Bowes position, honestly no more than a week after I became certified.
For my friends on here who may be going through a rough patch finding a good job at this time, I'm proof to say that it will get better, and it'll feel like such an elation when it happens.
