This is the mantra for 2013...it is appropriate in that I always thought being fair would get me somewhere-it doesn't.  At least on earth-my prize is in heaven and it will be greater than anything that could be given me here.  The job search continues.  Have a 'physical ability' test on 4/9 for the Crossing Guard position...so much to do for a 'sub' job.  Applied for yet another Customer Representative job for a health care provider. The questions asked on the assessment test (taken on line after completing the application) are generic...same questions/self evaluation asked by many other potential employers.  They make no sense to me other than you can see the pattern they are trying to establish.  I'd bet the farm were I to get an oral interview with the health care facility,  the same questions would be asked of me as were asked by others that have interviewed me.  Whenever I'm in those interviews, I think of Red, the character Morgan Freeman played in Shawshank Redemption when he is up for parole for the umpteenth time-sick of trying to figure out the 'right' answers that will finally result in his freedom, he just tells it like it is...he's old and he did a stupid thing.  He got his parole and freedom.  I just want to say that I'm ready, able and willing to work, that I will work to be the best at whatever, that I will be on time, that I like to work!  I think back when I was working and how people would say they were so tired at the end of their work day-this is after sitting at a desk for 8 hours!  I would feel so rejuvenated when I walked out that door.  My body wasn't tired but my mind might have been.  It was so exhilarating to know that I'd done what I loved doing and got paid to do it!  It made the commute (if there was one) worth it.  It made the typical BS that happens on any job doable.  I think about those who complain about going to work, about having to work (if you are richy rich you work even harder) and all I do is envy they have a job.  I went into a Tuesday Morning the other day as my cousin said they were hiring-the woman behind the counter pointed to a 'kiosk' and said I should apply there as the application was on line (duh, they all are lady).  When I asked if I could apply from home, she said my application would go through one of the on-line job finders and it would get lost and they would never, ever see it.  She also said they have hundreds upon hundreds of applications to go through and that I should come back into the store when the manager was there as it would be better to talk with her.  This lady was so off-putting I swear.  I haven't made it back into the store.  I don't have gas nor money to buy gas.  Sucks.  I will find a job.  Someday.