Last week was quite a boring and unproductive week for me.

I did meet one organisation, whom I first met during the networking event during my back to work programme. The meeting went well, but the process is a long one, I will know if they want to meet me again only around 3 weeks later. Another place, where I met people want me to work on a six-month trial basis before committing to the role on a full-time basis. The role is basically a hardcore sales one, a role which I am not very comfortable with to begin, so I have asked them to wait a month or so till I hear back from the organisation I met with earlier. I have yet to hear back from them on this request of mine, but if it doesn’t work out, I’m okay with it since it was a role I was not very interested in, to begin with.

In other updates, the children end school this week and I have plans for them, not just with school work, but also want to involve them in the housework a bit more. S and I are also planning to give them a set of the house keys which will eliminate the need for someone to be at home when they are back from school. Hopefully, this will make them more independent and responsible.

Have a wonderful and productive week folks! I am hoping this is true for me too…

Last week has been a productive one for me with regards to my job search. Due to the networking event, I attended the previous week resulted in some interest from a couple of organisations. I am meeting one of them later this week and another who wants to see me on a more formal basis is travelling, so that will be moved to the beginning of next month.

I also met another organisation, but am planning not to pursue this further because the job that was told to me in detail during that meeting is not something I would be very comfortable doing. I am meeting them again this week, so let’s see where this takes me.

Navratri is on-going in full speed and every day I am making some offerings to the Goddess. It will end at the end of this week and we can start regular programming, albeit one where we will start planning for the next major festival of Diwali.

I hope you all have a great week ahead!

This was quite an interesting week for me. I finished up the back-to-work programme I mentioned earlier, and we ended the programme with a networking drinks event. I also made friends with the other ladies in the programme and we’ve decided to keep in touch even afterwards to give support to each other and also coach and help the others. We’ve planned to meet for lunch or coffee perhaps at least once a month and the person who gets a job will have to treat the others!

During the networking event, I was asked for an introduction by a couple of people from companies that sound interesting. I’ve also asked to be introduced to organisations I was interested in and have sent my resumes to those who have asked for it. After a very long time, I feel optimistically cautious!

On another note, given the programme I was on, I feel I owe it to myself to give myself time till the end of this year to focus on getting a new position. I want something bigger than what I am doing and will focus on this for the next three months, after which, if nothing comes up, I will switch to an entrepreneurial mindset and start working on growing my business.

Please send a small prayer my way (or if you are an atheist, send me some good luck) for the next few months to be great!

Another hectic week! I’m strange right, when I don’t have anything to do, I complain about that and now that I am really busy, I am not too happy about that too. Actually, I am not unhappy about being busy, but I just wish I am busy doing something I really enjoy doing, not something I am doing just for the sake of it.

My freelance work is now taking up a lot of my time, some days I am doing it even for more than six-seven hours a day. It is slowly becoming a full-time job, but with a quarter-time or less than that salary. I am going to keep a close watch on the hours I am spending on it and maybe after around three months time, I will go back to the people I am working for and see if there could be more money in it. I am also hoping that the back to work programme I am doing will result in a good and interesting position and soon.

This week is also slightly more hectic than usual. I have my last back-to-work workshop and a networking event after that. I also have a hospital check-up scheduled this week for my eyes. This is a follow-up from last year when I was referred to the hospital for some possible complications due to my diabetes. After a couple of visits, it was determined that nothing was wrong with my eyes at the moment, but given my chronic condition, I was asked to come back for a follow-up after 18 months. I am also going to ask about the frequent tearing and redness in eyes.

Is it me or did September just zoom past?

I started September with a huge sense of optimism and this month has not really failed me, which is why I feel that this month has literally flown past.

I started the back to work programme that I was quite excited about in the past few sessions have learnt quite a bit about how I should structure my resume and look at it from the other side’s point of view. The biggest takeaway for me, however, is in knowing that I am not alone. In the same programme as me, there are other women, more successful, in higher positions than me, who for whatever reason decided to take a break from work and now are finding it difficult to get back into the game. I always thought that there was something wrong with me, but I know now that I am not alone. We’ve now created a Whatsapp group and so hope we are able to share our getting back to work journey together. This week I meet up with a consultant for a one-on-one session which I hope will be beneficial and next week is another workshop session followed by a networking event.

I’ve also been quite busy with my freelance work and if this job thing does not take off by the beginning of next year, I will focus more on my freelance work and try and get more clients onboard. Maybe that’s where I will see success.

Ok, gotta go and do some work now. Have a pleasant week everyone.