  Well today I am up and as annoyed as ever at the job market in Cincinnati. I heard from a recruiter that the Atena job went to an old consultant, and I heard from another recruiter that if I didn't hear anything back from 5/3rd by yesterday he would assume they are not interested.
So the optimism I wrote about on 6/13 is gone. I'm back at square one like the stock market. Either way I'm ok with it since I really would rather not go into a position other people are vacating right now. Think about it... there is no growth in businesses, so any new positions are from people abandoning theirs taking their chance on this sucky market instead of still working at the company.
That has to give you pause. I also am sick at what a small city Cincinnati is. I was at Newport On The Levy a few weeks back at night looking out on the river and the Cincy skyline and thinking how I can't drive down a Cincinnati street around 12:00pm lunch hour without seeing at least four people I use to work with. I remarked about it to Brad who was there sitting on the iron fence to my right. I don't think he believed me since he's still in college.. but he'll find out.
Oh, and on the topic of this impending doom of unemployment benefits running out which I wrote urlLink about in an article here, looks like the media is finally catching on. I imagine the fact that the citizens of New York are holding a 24 protest at the mayor's office is probably waking a few people up. I couldn't find a link to the protest but it was on NPR's morning edition today sometime. 
