Untangling the job market knot

My job search has made some leeway. But there is still uncertainty about my future. Finding a job in this economy is like untangling an unruly knot. I've progressed a little, but despite all my efforts, the stubborn knot sustains, its twists and loops seemingly impossible to smooth.

I have one job interview under my belt, but the job wasn't really what the company had let on. It was cold sales in a pyramid scheme. I didn't work hard for four years to go door to door selling office supplies. No.

Friday I tallied up two more interviews and I'm hoping that my resume is doing more than gather dust in obsolete filing cabinets in the human resource departments I mailed them to.

It is this beginning point I am now comfortable with. I can now whip up a cover letter in less than five minutes. There are at least four varieties of my resume saved among these cover letters in the "Job Search" folder on my flash drive.

I know some of my linen paper resumes (which cost a whopping $20-something per package) are a waste of ink and paper as they will never transpire anything. But some have amounted to something. An e-mail. An interview. And though few, these responses create good odds, because really I only need one job.

One job. That's all it takes. One mutual "yes" that will jump start my career, releasing all tension in the job search knot I've been toiling over.

All I can say of the job opportunities before me now is that they are definitely indefinite. But it's a step up from positively impossible.

With aspiration and determination, I will untangle the job market knot the recession has put in my lap.