The Second Time Podcast

Welcome to The Second Time Podcast. I'm Vanessa Smith. This is my weekly update on how job hunting is going - it's the end of my 12th week of job hunting.   Objectively Pointless is my phrase of the week. That's how it feels, knowing that less than 1% of what I do each week is likely to have the desired outcome (you know, a job). Anger is also a large feeling this week. I find it weird...

Welcome to The Second Time Podcast. I'm Vanessa Smith. This is my weekly update on how job hunting is going - it's the end of my 11th week of job hunting.   I felt particularly unenthused this week. It is incredibly hard toconvince yourself to spend all week doing tasks which have a very low percentage chance of having any actual value or outcome. Think about it, spending your entire week...

Welcome to the Second Time Podcast. Now that the introductory and background episodes are done, these weekly update style episodes will probably be the main format and frequency going forwards.   It's the end of my tenth week of job hunting.   I didn't apply for much in week nine, because my chronic conditions were flaring a lot and I decided that after eight weeks of hard work, I would do...

This is a short episode. It's a blog post I wrote in 2024. What if I don't want to work anymore? This episode doesn't have answers, it asks questions. Show notes and show script: https://normalness.com/2026/06/26/the-second-time-podcast-episode-3-what-if-i-dont-want-to-work-anymore/ Recorded and edited by myself, Vanessa Smith. Intro and outro music by Ben Dawson.

Last episode I covered the HOW of how I job hunt, and this episode it's time to share some of my philosophies.   Many of these I've also written about, and links to the full blog posts will be in the show notes. I will be quickly going over them here.   First up, pay disabled people more because disability is expensive. People are really into equity until it comes to money. For some reason...

First up today I want to share with you WHY I am open to talking about things like job hunting as a disabled person. It's quite simple. It's because the fault does not sit with me, the fault sits with inaccessible employment and lack of appropriate disability supports. I am not ashamed to be unemployed, disabled, and looking for work. This situation is merely facts to me. Exhausting facts,...

In 2023 I had to job hunt for the first time as an openly disabled person, someone who couldn't hide my disabilities and only disclose them later or if needed. I'm in the final stages of editing and cleaning up a book about that time, which will be published soon. And yes, I'm writing a book about job hunting, about to publish a book about job hunting... while job hunting again. I was...