Counting two years of unemployment/underemployment

When I finished this blog back in September 2013, I really wasn't expecting to go back to it. I thought, wrongly, that no one would want to read about my trials with underemployment. Yes, I did have two jobs in the past six months. Neither one lasted very long. I have been questioning why I've been putting myself through this...and admittedly stopped looking.

This doesn't mean that I haven't stretched myself in other ways. I have worked(unpaid) as the president of a historical society setting up fundraising events, speakers and planning meetings. I have also researched for grants gathering information for a new potential local history club in my area. Some would say that I'm being a fool and I should be focusing my energy on finding that perfect job. Maybe I am. Yet when I did that, I got quickly burnt out and disgusted with myself. I then settled for any "lifeline" that came along...thus the two jobs that I probably shouldn't have taken. I'm not sorry to have taken them because they did help a little bit. They also opened my eyes a bit wider to what I don't want in a job, what I really can't handle and gave me a little bit of incentive to dig deeper.

I'll now ask the questions I should have asked before taking those jobs, weighing out what I can reasonably put up with against what I can't.