All Shoes Dropped

Both girls know now, so I might as well come out of the closet. The Spouse was laid off last week--with a quite decent severance pay, but laid off nonetheless. He'd suspected something like this might be coming, so he's already got irons in the fire, but even so... He is networking furiously; I have full confidence that he'll get something sooner rather than later (everyone he worked with seems to be feeding him leads). In the meantime I'm looking for full-time employment. Looked over my resume, which is publishing-heavy but does seem to reflect the fact that when I'm not writing I'm really good at herding cats and inflicting organization on the disorganized.

Sigh. Would go back to bed, only, no.

Avocado, when we drive past Spouse's former workplace, has taken to shaking her fist out the window. Sarcasm Girl, informed this morning of what was up and that her father had been looking for a new berth even before the axe fell, turned to him and said in tones of shock, "Dad! You were two-timing your work? You slut!" Both have suggested ways to cut down current spending.

We're going to be fine. My kids are weird, but solid. And the Spouse is a Hero.

Resume

So I dusted off my resume from **mumble** years ago. It looks like me but, looking at samples on the web and stuff, I am clearly out of date and not assertive enough. But for some reason listing anything other than my experience, freelance stuff, and (at the end) specific skills looks wrong. I loathe having to list my objective (which on any given day goes from "not dying of starvation" to "to find a place where my energy and communication skills can be given free reign to organize people dumber than I am" to "to serve a cause in which I believe...for pay." My resume is publishing heavy, but my skills don't necessarily limit me to publishing: basically, outside the writing and editorial stuff, I'm good at making people play well together; I'm good at wading into muck-heaps and bringing order out of chaos; I'm pretty good at getting what I need from people. I can handle a budget or a database (tho' I don't love numbers) and I can balance three things at a time (and know when to say No to a fourth). How the hell do you sum that up in an Objective section? Or break that out into skills?

I was raised not to talk about, let alone praise, myself. I was also raised not to type too well, lest I be stuck typing for the rest of my life, and of that I have no fear. Expect me to be cranky about the jobhunting thing for a little while. Sorry.