PERSONAL NOTES - BACK IN BUSINESS

Dear Friends,

I wish to thank you, all my friends and family, for all your prayers and well wishes. After almost a year of being unemployed from "steady" work, I am now working 2 jobs, one at Ocean County Library, and the other at Ocean County College. I am now employed for "steady" work because for the last few months of 2010, I was working an "on-call" job at the college.

It feels so good to be working again, I can't even tell you. I have been working since I was seventeen, and the longest time I had been out of work previously, was probably 2 months, at the most! But, that was when I was single and still living at home. It is a totally different situation now that I am married, and I have to provide for a wife and a household. Thank God, Unemployment kept me going through my vigorous job search.

Last summer was so rough because not only did I start Memorial Day weekend unemployed, (I was let go May 18th, after I returned from vacation), but, starting in July, my wife had a back injury and we spent the rest of the summer in physical therapy for her.

And I spent the rest of the time on my job search, interviews, etc.

I want to make this summer the anti-2010 summer. Everything Kat and I couldn't do last summer, I want to do this year. Which means, maybe some beach time where we can actually go swimming. I didn't swim last year at all.

Thank God, even with two jobs, my schedule allows for time to spend outside. And I work at a library right on the beach in seaside, I don't have any reason NOT to go to the beach.

I felt after a year of searching, interviewing, and sending thousands of interviews out there, I am finally getting back on the road to recovery. Not only monetarily, but physically, spiritually, and mentally. It feels so good to not have to be glued to a computer doing job searches 24/7.

Again, thank you for all your prayers, suggestions, advice, and well wishes, someone up there was hearing, and I thank God and you my friends,

your brother,

John