The Friday before Labor Day just before we left, the options given to me basically were either quit of be fired, and if I were to stay on I were to be put on an improvement plan, which is pretty much synonymous with getting fired. I was going to do the improvement plan and just ride it out until I found another job due to money and due to the fact that I did not want to quit without another job. I went to my parents house over the weekend and my dad was very adamant that I not do this. He said that their 'option' to quit was not an option and that if I didn't take it they were going to make my life hell and that they were playing games with me, and that if I were fired 'for cause' I would not be getting unemployment anyway.  My work has a thirty day notice written into it, and there is a quazi contract where if *you* quit they can possibly sue for damages and report you to the department of education but they can dump you at anytime, yet somewhere in there it is still written that the arrangement is 'at will'. Thing is, this is basically constructive discharge, I would not be quitting at this point had they not done this on Friday.

As it stands, I put in resumes over the weekend and there is a place, a school that wants to interview me tomorrow, and have me come onsite on Friday. He said that they are looking to hire now. I need to take the job because this one is over. And I don't think that I am going to be able to carry out this thirty days, and with this situation and the way they have acted, I want to get out of there. If push comes to shove, and they do try to sue becuause I leave sooner, i think that I will ask an employement attorney for a consult, or I will consult with someone who can give legal advice. They practically forced me to quit-so preventing me from taking another job is not going to work for me. They can't simulaneously threaten to fire me and then force me to stay there also. If need be I will ask a lawyer what to do. My job developer from voc rehab might be able to point me in the right direction. I have the phone interview tomorrow and a possible on site interview on Friday. It sounds like a promising position.

I'll never understand why my master's degree got me absolutely nothing. I'm now back in the exact ecosystem I was trying to avoid. And it really seems like since I graduated I can't hold a job. A year ago I was let go from a sub position due to not controlling a classsroom, earlier this summer from a corporate traning in short order for not catching on to their way, and now this.  But none of these things were my goal or what I wanted at all in any way shape or form-and maybe that is the problem.

In the meanwhile, I got the COMP TIA Core one and two books. I understand that this is a different area of tech that is more accessible to go into and that there are actual entry level jobs to be had, unlike the area that I studied for, which was product designa and development. My friend was saying over the weekend not to purchase some expensive course, but to just get the Core one and two books, read them and to take the test and that they are 'easy'. Honestly, I was studying chapter one hardware today and it was the hardest thing I have ever read. I don't plan on going into computer repair, but my hope is to start in help desk and maybe get some other certs and work my way up from there. This is not what I had planned on but it does seem doable. I certainly hope I can pass these tests-for me this material seems really challenging. I really wanted to be in ux design, which is what I was doing, I really loved the graphic design, it was great, but it was going nowhere for me.