First Post

I got the news two weeks ago: the agency where I've worked as a therapist for the past 19 years is going out of business after January 30th. So, I'm a middle-aged woman without a job, without a husband to take up the slack, in a poor county in a poor state in a bad economy.


Oh yeah, and my dog died 3 weeks ago.


I'm doing better today than I have in a while, so I'll take stock of my strengths: I'm well liked, I'll have a good reference; I have my license, so I can take insurance payments; my house and car are both paid for; unlike my some of my colleagues, I don't have to worry about supporting kids.


I've put up my resume on monster.com, and applied at one agency. It's for a supervisor position, which I haven't done for many years, but I'm pretty sure I can do it if necessary. I'll probably hear from them in a few weeks one way or the other. I'm considering private practice, but I don't know how that would work with unemployment insurance...I don't know how quickly I could build a practice to support myself.


I intend to use this blog to document my progress in this endeavor. And vent.


I have a sense of participating in an historical moment. Like voting for Obama, only without bumper stickers.