I quit my job. Per January first I'll be unemployed. No, I do not have a plan yet, no new employer yet. It's just that I was so fed up with feeling miserable in my current job (with the set back of Studio Fonkel not 'saving me') that even Matthijs said that I should just 'get out'. So I sent my letter of resignation on the 24th of September.Now I am counting down the days till it is finally over. My last day at work will be the 18th of December because I'm taking 2 weeks off around the holidays. (And I still got 7 free days left)

So on the one hand it feels good to finally have made a decision and acted upon it. On the other hand it is very scary that I'll be without a job soon, with no income and no plan. I'm thinking about starting on my own, selling crafted items or clothing. But there's no business plan yet. All I know is that I'll probably need a parttime job to pay the bills and have the whole tax/insurance stuff taken care of by my employer. The other days will be for me and my yet to be formed plan.

I'm looking around at job offers but for most of them I do not have the right background/training and others are a no go for me because I do not want to work in the weekends. I've got too much weekend hobbies so "I can't get the Saturday off" really won't cut it for me. Lots of vacancies want you to be 'commercially oriented' and sound like you need to sell stuff. I don't think I could manage that with a product that I wouldn't use myself. Callcenter work might be a better fit, though answering questions of agitated (and sometimes horrendously stupid) people might require more patience than I'm gifted with. But at least you'll be helping people, or trying to. I do take pride in tidying up and cleaning (as long as it isn't my own house... unfortunately), so a job as a cleaner might be it. Still.... how long would it take for me to get totally frustrated?

For now I'll focus on surviving the last month-and-a-half of my current job, then I need some time to recuperate and get some of my resilience back before I'm ready to be a convincing candidate at a job interview.