Update...................Arion

Hi Gang. Just thought I would throw out an update on what's happening in my life.

Last month I joined the ranks of the unemployed. My position was eliminated, and now I'm looking for a new job. To make matters worse, I'm a teacher, and we all know most of the schools are closed thanks to the pandemic. As such, I'm looking at corporate training, too. As of this writing, I've been unemployed about three weeks. No bites on my resume, but I'm plugging away.

The interesting thing about this is that I'm collecting unemployment for the first time in my life. Yes, you read that right. Throughout my life I've either been in business for myself, or employed. So, I've never actually been out of work long enough to take unemployment benefits. It's an interesting experience, and a whole lot of bureaucratic hoops to jump through.

The scary thing about all this is I honestly don't know how it's going to end. I've found some really nice-looking possibilities, including a literature teaching position at a nearby college, but nothing solid, yet.

Fortunately, my wife has a job with a good benefits package, so we won't be without health care. We're cooking vegetarian, so we're healthy, and our money is stretched longer at the grocery store. Also fortunately, no one I know has died of Coronavirus. But every day the news shows the rising fatality rates, and I'm sure that before the year is up, someone I know will succumb to the disease. I've been tested twice, and both times come out clean. Whew!

I hope all of you are well.

Arion

Experience is a hard teacher, but above all it teaches self-reliance.

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