Analog2Digital

This job search thing is debilitating. It's taking me forever to find job, and it's driving me stir-crazy. I've got a ton of skills, but they're all for an industry that seems to be suffering the biggest slump of all, New Media. I need to do something, but I don't know what. I've sent out a ton of resumes, now that I've moved to Massachusetts, but no one's biting. Then I read more depressing articles in the Boston Globe of other people who are hung out to dry, about the paucity of work in the tech sector, and it just makes me wonder whether I'm even in the right career. For so long I've been caught up in what's avant-garde, and now, after 9/11, everyone's going back to basics; I feel like an anachronism. A forward-looking artist type in a country that's fighting for survival, fighting problems that go back centuries. And the more I wait, the more I'm thinking advancement will mean spending more money on new training and certification, money that I don't have. With my mother retired and disabled, and my fiancee disabled from a ruptured disc in her back, I don't have another source help to pay for school; in fact, I'm spending time and money helping them, too. So should I scale back my dreams? Find a job in retail or I don't know what, something that will at least guarantee me health insurance? I thought that having written a book on web design would get me somewhere, but I'm seeing nothing. Ugh. So I'm losing sleep aimlessly worrying, wondering what else I can do.

posted by creon @ 10:29:11 AM