Fascinating Stuff Happening to Other Folks

Yesterday I applied to a bunch of jobs, most of which I figured I wouldn't hear back from, and then... I did? One was an email saying, hey you meet the basic qualifications for this job, we're putting you on a possibilities list but that's no guarantee of a job. Sure, fine, whatever. And then a couple of hours later, they CALLED? And asked if I wanted to interview next week? So, uh, yes? That's with the county, doing extra help for the elections in June. It may be one day, it may be more, I have no idea, there were a couple of different possibilities with that application.

The second one is the Second Look team with my tax job - we basically offer a service to our new/skipper clients where we get transcripts of prior year returns from the IRS and go over them to see if anything had been missed, if there's anything that we could have done better, and then let the clients know what we found and let them decide if they want to amend, etc. It would be an excellent way for me to gain a LOT of experience in a short amount of time, and possibly pick up some online clients too. AND it basically runs from July to December, full time, remote, which means I could stop looking for another job at least for this year? And if they continue to do this team each year, maybe I could keep doing it? And survive? And have myself a two month break every year and still live?

Trying not to count chickens, because grandboss seemed to think I had an infinitesimal chance of getting the job, and I really don't have as much experience as they would like, but I think my manager already talked to them? So....? Fingers crossed, anyway. And hey, who knows, maybe I won't enjoy this part of the job as much.

I also got my unemployment application in today. Now I'm kinda hoping all that effort will be wasted, haha.