stitchingirl
02-20-2012, 07:11 PM
Hi all,
I am unemployed and on social security disability for being bipolar. Just got a letter saying my case is up for review and may or may not be necessarily approved. During the time that I have been on SS I have gone to school and acquired a Bachelor's degree in creative writing, so, yes, I did get an education, but not a super technical one. I was fully planning on getting a job when I graduated last December, but the economy happened, and, also? My bipolar-ness took a sudden swing for the worse.
My family really needs the money that social security gives us in lieu of me not working, so I am really in a bind here that I either get a job or get SS renewed.
Last week I got a phone call for an interview. DH and I were going (and currently are) out of the state for a family trip that we planned a whole year in advance, not knowing that bipolar would get worse, that SS would be up for renewal, that I would have a harder time finding a job. So I didn't go to the interview or even call the guy back because we were going out of town.
Today, still being out of state, and a week and change later, the job interviewer guy calls me back for an interview. Seems he's already interviewed several candidates but they aren't the one and he thinks I might be that one person he needs. So he conducts a mini-phone interview right here and now, and then plans for me to come in for a 2nd, "real" interview in person next Monday.
That's great. Really. I wrote down the address and the directions very carefully, and the guy's first and last names. I went out and got dinner, and sitting here looking at the note I made, and realized I didn't write down the TIME. And that place where we talked about what time to come in for the interview where I probably would be hired is just a blank space in my mind. The bipolar has completely erased that part of the conversation. I have no idea whether we agreed on 9, or 1, or 3.
And of course, I have the guy's name and number, but if I call him and say, oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to write down the time, I may as well literally shoot myself in the foot. He'll figure out that I'm not as organized as I made myself out to be on my resume. Or that I'm maybe not the best candidate.
Grrr. :mad:
I am unemployed and on social security disability for being bipolar. Just got a letter saying my case is up for review and may or may not be necessarily approved. During the time that I have been on SS I have gone to school and acquired a Bachelor's degree in creative writing, so, yes, I did get an education, but not a super technical one. I was fully planning on getting a job when I graduated last December, but the economy happened, and, also? My bipolar-ness took a sudden swing for the worse.
My family really needs the money that social security gives us in lieu of me not working, so I am really in a bind here that I either get a job or get SS renewed.
Last week I got a phone call for an interview. DH and I were going (and currently are) out of the state for a family trip that we planned a whole year in advance, not knowing that bipolar would get worse, that SS would be up for renewal, that I would have a harder time finding a job. So I didn't go to the interview or even call the guy back because we were going out of town.
Today, still being out of state, and a week and change later, the job interviewer guy calls me back for an interview. Seems he's already interviewed several candidates but they aren't the one and he thinks I might be that one person he needs. So he conducts a mini-phone interview right here and now, and then plans for me to come in for a 2nd, "real" interview in person next Monday.
That's great. Really. I wrote down the address and the directions very carefully, and the guy's first and last names. I went out and got dinner, and sitting here looking at the note I made, and realized I didn't write down the TIME. And that place where we talked about what time to come in for the interview where I probably would be hired is just a blank space in my mind. The bipolar has completely erased that part of the conversation. I have no idea whether we agreed on 9, or 1, or 3.
And of course, I have the guy's name and number, but if I call him and say, oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to write down the time, I may as well literally shoot myself in the foot. He'll figure out that I'm not as organized as I made myself out to be on my resume. Or that I'm maybe not the best candidate.
Grrr. :mad: