Interviewer: How do you handle stress?
Hmmm…
I’ve been unemployed for 13 months. 175 resumes, a few interviews, openings that went away or were filled internally, plus the “you’re over-qualified / under-qualified” response, if you can ever get a reply, not to mention “local candidates only” like that’s some sort of qualifier for actually doing the job.
So we sold our $450K house on November 17 to prevent a VA foreclosure which was to occur on December 1. The VA then comes out with impeccable timing on the day we closed encouraging lenders to postpone foreclosures until May 2024.
We’re now homeless with our household belongings sitting in two U-Haul trucks while we await the closing on a foreclosed $40K fixer upper, which is now stuck in legal hell with the VA attorneys at a cost of about $1000 a week.
Due to the contractual terms of the “as is, where is” purchase, we have no idea if the electricity works (and the panel is a rat’s nest), gas heating works, hot water tank works, or plumbing works (currently winterized). So if or when we move in, there’s a presumed amount of troubleshooting and repair under a tight crawl space in winter… yee-haw.
The equity did not afford us a home near where the aerospace and defense jobs are (VA, MD, DC, FL, AL, and definitely not CA), instead choosing a new home near the nursing home where my wife’s mother resided. She died on November 12 and we lost about two weeks of packing with hospital visits, funeral home arrangements, and moving her household items out of the nursing home.
Yet here I am with a get it done attitude and more gray hair than I had at the start of 2023 looking at the positive side: the vehicle is paid off, most debts paid off, and soon to be mortgage free, all while sitting in interviews with a smile on my face.
If you or someone you know is hiring a business development executive in aerospace, defense, and space, please contact me.
Self Employed
1moWhere is this located. I live in. Spartanburg. But I like. To clean offices,rental homes, buildings. Anything. Really. Real estate properties also. I have. Cleaned a lot of those. Up. Amd fixed. Them got. Them ready. For. People. To come look at. I really. Like it