em the hunter

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. Forgot my own password in fact.  This happens when work and family get in the way of a healthy blogging habit.

Well, I no longer have the old "job" excuse. I was laid off Sept 25, a few days before the whole economic collapse escapade. It’s been almost 5 weeks. I’m on the trail of a few good prospects, although each has pluses/minuses.

• Editor, dental publications: Would be a reprise of working for Charismatic but Volatile Executive, but this time at the company that he started when he left my former employer at the first acquisition. Trying to navigate these complex financial times himself, he can only offer 60% of my last salary. Welcome to 1995. Ouch.

• Editor, retail publications: Step down both financially and professionally, just not sure to what degree.  Not a bad commute (25 miles of highway). Have met with them twice now, the first session consisting of a personality test and several aptitude tests.  Welcome to 1979. Guess I faked my way through, however, since they called me back in for more interviewing. According to HR director, it could be several more rounds--including a dinner out (?!)--before a decision is made. Note to self--elbows off the table.

• Editorial director, medical projects: Right in my wheelhouse--variety of media and topics, fast pace,  good company. But! A 90 mile commute.

• Community publisher, physician networking Web site: Electronic media is where I need to go, given the die-off among print publications. Interesting work too, involving courting of key opinion leaders, acquisitions, long-range strategizing, audience generation efforts, and writing and editing. But! Would entail moving from lovely Trenton NJ to a suburb of Boston.   Not impossible, just daunting.

• Senior editor, medical publishing: A women-owned medical communications company, I’d be taking a step down, financially and professionally, but it seems like a great place to work. Another 90-mile drive to the office, but as a nonsupervisor,  I think I could finagle a work from home arrangement.

Lock and load.

Denny Crane.

Comments

[Lionel]

Welcome back, lovely Em. It's about bloody time.

[em]

hey you. :-)

[Lionel]

Ooh - sexy new design. There's lovely.