Welcome to my First Blog

Back from the Land of Hopes to the True North Country

After close to three years living in Tel Aviv, working in IT, I come back to the wide expanses of Ontario soil that nourished me in my youth.
I have brought with me several things that I did not have when I left and I lack certain things that I had before.
On the plus side, I bring my fiancee, Maya. If I brought nothing else, if I gained nothing else in the last 30 months, that would be enough. But of course, I have more. I have my experience working for a growing website. I watched membership more than quintuple in size and got to feel like I was a key part of that growth. I gained many friends and formed relationships that I hope to maintain.
The red shows that I have no job. There are probably a few more entries in this side of the ledger, but I can't see them from the magnitude of the first entry. It's like a bullet hole. The ink from that entry bleeds fresh daily covering all other notes. I can almost make out that Maya and I are back in my parents' basement, counting days until a job is found allowing us passage into the light of independance.
Now that I have your attention, let's discuss the job front. I have not been inactive. I scour the new listings in all the leading job search sites. I have signed up for assistance from the JVS (I've already had my first session with their career assessment guide - did you know the leading job search sites only have a 6% success rate), I have spoken to headhunters, tried to establish connections in interesting fields.
So far nothing.
It can be quite frustrating. A person is used to working every day, waking up by a certain time, taking a certain bus, greeting the coworkers, thinking in a steadily productive atmosphere. Then there is nothing. That person becomes a spinning top, trying to find a groove to spin in but lacking any real control over its axis.
What kind of work am I looking for? you may be asking yourself.
Well, I try to be open-minded about it considering the many hats I wore in my last position. Ultimately, though, I am trying to focus on the most interesting of those hats and am searching for positions in the communications/PR field. Know anything?