Today I am thankful for being in demand.
Things are picking up.
I've had back to back job interviews over the past two days. Yes, I have my own company -but- due to the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) I have to hold a full time job in order to get health insurance.
Being a smartass and thinking that it would help me save money on healthcare, I jumped into the industry. I sold Medicare Advantage plans for the country's biggest non-profit HMO in California and eight other states.
Rent in my town is insane. When the company realized that they could make more in profits by letting go of the lease, all but twelve employees were laid off.
I was asked to stay and work from home. I declined as I had given my spare room to a teenager who had been thrown out of the house by her father. She literally had no where to go.
After giving up that room, I had no where to work. No, they would not let me use my hypnosis office. I don't know why. Maybe they didn't trust the janitorial staff.
I don't know.
They gave me a generous severance and paid for any training I wanted.
After I was let go, my former employer sold the division to another company. This new company has had five different recruiters hunt me down to try to corral me back into the fold.
I don't know if it is for the same opportunity or five different opportunities.
I can't get anyone to answer my call. Maybe my job would be to answer the calls of hopeful job seekers?
I don't know.
It doesn't matter.
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A recruiter found me on LinkedIn and asked if I'd be willing to interview for a temporary low-paying governmental call center position answering questions about Obamacare.
I don't understand Medicaid as much as I'd like. I understand Medi-Cal and Med-Quest. Medicaid is not something I've had the chance to work with very much, at least not in the state where I live.
The opportunity would involve finding out if people qualified for Medicaid or if children and pregnant women qualified for CHP+.
It was fun interview.
As I sat there, the interviewer asked how I felt about public speaking.
The truth is that I love, love, love public speaking.
I toned it down for the interviewer.
I mentioned that I have public speaking experience. She said they may have a different opportunity for me in six months with pay that would be similar to what I used to make in insurance sales....without the selling.
That was nice.
We'll see.
I have an interview tomorrow and another on Monday.
At least I'm not staying home amongst the weird unemployed neighbors.
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After weeks of not hearing back from employers, I don't know what happened.
I think there was a mind shift on some level.
I don't know exactly what it was.
Do you want to know how I think I created the mind shift?
I listened to some of the old subliminal hypnosis recordings I made for my former clients pertaining to job hunting.
I also listened to the spoken hypnosis recordings but I played them so fast, they may as well have been subliminals.
I'll loop the recordings for about four hours after I fall asleep. My intention is to listen to them the entire night -but- I rarely get more than five hours of sleep. When I do, the noise gets annoying and I wake up and shut it off.
Since listening to the recordings four hours per day, I've had at least two interviews each and every day.
Maybe I'll rework the recordings and post some of them online for free. Every time I put something on YouTube some competitor puts ads on it by claiming they own the sounds of the birds in my back yard or my voice or something else.
I once had a thrash metal band claim ownership of a sleep hypnosis video. That made me freakin' giggle. Could you imagine me with a hypnotic alto-ish death growl?
That would put someone into a fear based trance. I don't think it would help people relax and fall asleep. It would scare the piss out of them! It would probably give them nightmares.
Sigh......some people's managers.
I'll post my new creations on Vimeo.
YouTube is not worth the headache.
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There is a lesson here, isn't there?
I should use the same mind tricks on myself that I use on everyone else, huh?
Mind tricks or not -
May your biggest dreams come true for you.
Love ya,
S.