Starting all over again: Applying a new job here in U.S.

We, my husband and I, went by the books. We followed everything by the letter. We chose to wait for all my documents to be processed first before I started applying for a job.

I don't want to be a pasaway. I don't want to be a part of the stereotype of immigrants who already applied for jobs even when they don't have their Employment Authorization Document (EAD)/working permit YET. My husband also don't want me to be pasaway. Thank goodness he was so supportive in all the ways I needed. The feeling of being unemployed is never a good feeling, even if we know that it is just a part of the process we need to go through.

Before I left the Philippines, I was a college instructor in a state university. I was given an item (an equivalent of a regular position in the government) a temporary item that will turn to permanent once I finished my thesis and get my master's degree. I wasn't able to finish my thesis. If I am not leaving, I don't have a choice but to finish it or transfer in a non thesis program. My job was good but can be overwhelming and stressful at times, like all other jobs. Juggling them both (writing a thesis while working and teaching was just too much for me). But I regret not finishing it. I am finding a way now if I can continue it thru distance learning in UPOU or in a university here.

Now living in the U.S., I know I can't expect to get the same job I last had in the Philippines but as they say there is no harm in trying so I will. But I am also open to start at the bottom as a teacher assistant or office staff.

Having a driver's license is so important here. Most job ads I saw have it under the requirements. Since I am still working to have one (just got my learner's license), I am narrowed in applying jobs that don't require having one.

Certifications are also big here. Almost all jobs require some kind of certifications. Here in Florida, the most in demand jobs are mostly related to medical professions.

Some professional jobs may also ask you to submit a US Equivalency Report. I just did my research on that one and working to get mine now.

Those who want to be primary, middle, and high school teachers here need to have a Florida teaching license. These are the requirements for foreign trained graduated or non-citizens like me.

I am not so choosy regarding the salary but I am looking and hoping to get a Monday-Friday job. Day shift of course. Raise your hand to those who tried night shift before and you just know it won't work out for you. LOL.

Wish me luck! God bless us all!

I want to write and I'm learning

I promised myself to write at least once a month in my two (barely) active blogs.

I just shared and posted my experience in getting a LEARNER'S LICENSE (for first time drivers) here in Florida.

I went here in my blogspot after I published the said article above in WordPress.

I tried to open some saved bookmarks to get an idea on what I can write about but I don't like them.

I opened a book entitled What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers but nothing caught my interest at the moment.

I bought the book after seeing it in a Thrift Shop knowing it would come in handy as a reference book even though I like writing non fiction more than fiction.

And then...

while typing the word license a question popped in my mind...

Can anyone just get the LICENSE to WRITE?

It is interesting to realized that driving and writing have similarities.

It is said that driving is not a right but a privilege with great responsibility.

And it can be withdrawn anytime you don't drive responsibly (i.e. driving under influence or texting while driving)

Now how about writing? Is it a right?or more like a privilege?

Anyone has the right to write (nice homonyms).

But isn't it a privilege to be read by some and of course by many?

Some write responsibly and some don't.

Everyone writes for different reasons, with different or similar goals.

With purpose (consciously or subconsciously).

Just like we drive to go somewhere...we write to tell..to show...to let the story flow and go somewhere.

Some people write to impress, to earn money, to persuade, to sell, and some write..mostly for themselves yet sharing it with the hope it can and will make sense to someone else.

And sometimes we drive and write to escape.

Just like we drive to go out of the house, we write to get thoughts out of our minds...of ourselves.

I remember reading, hearing, learning, and agreeing that everything seemed to be written already. All topics and stories (existing and non existing in real life but exist in the mind/imagination of someone) they said in a way had been written already and there are just some parts changed or just told/written differently by various authors.

Saw the article proving that researchers analyzed over 1700 novels and found out that every story in the world has one of these six basic plots?

Read the The Seven Basic Plots?

There are also those who are saying there are 9 basic plots. The only difference is how many they count but the point remains that they all fall to a finite number of plots.

Just as I only have a learner's license in driving, just like how I am learning to drive now...

I feel like I am eternally holding a learner's license in writing.

But learners can be teachers too.

Learners can share something important too.

And I'll end this post here even when I don't like using two too's and ending two sentences in the same word.

Cause imitating and repeating are not always as bad as they seem...at all.