Day 2

I'm in the coffee shop right now, having a tea and getting my day started.  I was pretty freaked out trying to go to sleep last night.  I feel okay today and have just jumped right back into my job search.  I have some pretty bad anxiety writing these posts and I'm not sure why exactly.  A coffee followed by a tea, all following a layoff is good cause for anxiety, though.  I received an email from my former director and in it he passed along the contact information from some people at a large telecommunications firm.  The contacts come straight from the owner of the company and state that the contact is eager to see our resumes.  The contact information was sent to all parties laid off.  I noticed a data analytics job available at this company and am wondering how I can parlay the contact into getting this job or one like it.

When you are working you have the luxury of turning down jobs that don't suit you.  When you are out of work, I suppose, it is a hard choice.  You need the cash flow right away, but you also have time to look around for a good job.  This is especially poignant when considering unemployment insurance.  That service is specifically designed to get you to accept the first job that comes along.

Last night I was planning my future and I added together my savings plus UI and decided that I had time to wait for just the job I wanted.  In fact, the UI system will force me to look for the first job I can get.  That sucks, but perhaps it is for the best.  Perhaps I can't get that good job in Toronto right now and will have to wait six months.  That is not the end of the world, supposing a few things.  If it is the case that UI will allow me to at least wait for a good programming job, the only kind of job that I should be accepting, then I guess I can get a good programming job here and in six months, move out to TO.

This is all to say that I am on the fence about contacting the people at Alcatel.  My intention was to move to Toronto and get a good programming job in a data analytics focused environment.  That would be ideal.  I want to take two months to find a job, spending my days exercising both mentally and physically.  I intend to go to the gym frequently and also to study things like Python, Machine Learning, Statistics, Data Analytics, Java, MySQL, Flask etc.  I am not sure that I have the luxury for that in the scope of UI.  I know that a colleague was on UI for a fairly long time, so perhaps I do have the luxury.  I guess I need to have a few questions answered about that....