[faerietails2]

Today I took an assessment test for this really great job. I'm amazed. I applied this week and they got back to me the next day. That never happens (at least not with my luck).

Unfortunately, I got tripped up on the Excel portion. I haven't used formulas in Excel since like 7th grade, so let's just say I was rustier than I would've hoped! That part took me forever. The other part was much longer and I finished it that like 20 minutes. But overall, it took over an hour.

*sigh* I hope they don't cancel me out of the running, thinking I'm super slow or something, because I think I'd be great in that job (it'll just take a while to get back into the swing of Excel).

Send me interview vibes!

[Muffy]

stellargirl9, tell me about there being no jobs, I've been on partial unemployment since September!

I got a tuition waiver from unemployment to go to school to take a few classes, but I because I'm on unemployment I still have to look for a job! I'm hoping I can get into some work/study program, I am so sick of unemployment. but I'm also sick of going from one dead end job to another with no hope of advancing myself.

[faerietails2]

I've been stinky and depressed all week. The only reason I'm gonna try to shove my ass into the shower in a while is because my hair is starting to feel extra grody. But I don't see the point. I just want to stay in bed all day and sulk.

I miss school too. A lot. Much as I complained and procrastinated, I secretly love school. *sigh* I coulda been starting grad school again this semester if my freakin references hadn't been total flakes. Now I have to wait until summer. Which is fine, because that's when my student loans start back up (I had to get a forbearance since I'm penniless right now). If I start school in summer, I can defer my loans even longer since I'll be a full time student.

[stellargirl9]

My unemployment benefits exhaust in 2 weeks even though my benefit year doesnt end until July. I hope Bush announces a benefits extension during his state of the union on the 28th (do not have much faith in that happening from him tho). Am getting scared to death as there are just no jobs.

[konphusion26]

Jobless limbo... thats a great way to describe it Faerie!! I feel you girl. I'm miserable right now and I try not to show it too much. Don't want to bring everyone around me down in the pit with me. You know?? I just want to sleep. There's nothing to do, nowhere to go around here that interests me. Actually I dont know what interests me anymore. I guess I'm a boring person. I didnt used to be this way. I'm very BLAHHHHHHHH! I'd like to finish my degree. I kinda got a taste of being back in school yesterday with my girl friend. She was registering for classes. And OH how I miss it. But, I dont want to teach - so I'd have to change my major. Gosh man, I hate this feeling.

[faerietails2]

I got an email in mid-December about teaching 2 courses at a community college. The person said they'd get back to me after the holidays to schedule an interview. I was all excited and spent forEVER drafting up a sample syllabus to impress her with, and yesterday I emailed to follow up and schedule something. Today I find out she changed her mind and I don't even get an interview.

I can't go on living in this jobless limbo. And while I was home for the holidays I got in a HUGE fight with my dad and I'm not even speaking to him right now, and I felt like shit having to take the money he gave me (before the fight) so that I could afford my train/cab ride home from the airport. After we got into the argument I wanted nothing more than to throw the money back in his face and tell him to go to hell, and I couldn't.

I was hoping that would be the last time I'd have to take money from my parents, and now that hope is gone. I feel like shit right now. I'm just so bitter and depressed.

[banshee]

is it fair to say that oversleeping and unemployment come hand in hand?

i quit my job in november because i hated my boss and reasoned that i'd find something once finals (and the holidays) were over. now i'm on this whacked out schedule where my body wants to sleep most of the day away.

i've gotten myself on a bi-weekly yoga regimen and i just started belly dance classes, which at least gets me some physical activity during the week... but good god - i hate feeling so low-energy, restless, and bored. combing job listing sites online doesn't require that much energy....

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[banshee]

by far my least favorite part of job hunting are the cover letters! nothing will make me drag my feet and procrastinate more than having to write one. it doesn't matter how many online templates i look at... it still feels fake and wrong and daunting. i think i find cover letters even more anxiety provoking than the actual interviews!

i'm starting my second semester of grad school and need to start thinking about assistantship jobs... in the past i've sworn off retail, but if i don't find something soon, i might have to cave. or revert to veg-friendly ramen noodles.

[anna k]

Yeah loridk, that does sound unprofessional and irresponsible.

I enjoyed my first day at the bookstore. At first the process of putting books away by call numbers and letters was confusing, but I got the hang of it quickly. I liked my co-workers, they're mostly funny people in their twenties and thirties, and there are two housecats as well as two disabled old dogs that belong to the owner. I just enjoyed being surrounded by books, getting shipments from the big publishers I want to work for, and socializing and making jokes and feeling busy and productive. I have two more days this week, then full-time next week.

[sassy]

How is this for annoying?? I applied and interviewed for a job where I would be editing documents that court reporters wrote. I thought it seemed cool...I would be using my editing skills (per my journalism degree) and I thought they would offer it because when I went for the interview the manager told me that the girl interviewing me had "really liked me."

Anyway...they called today but they offered me a different position! A lower position...that involves binding documents. How did I go in for an interview, impress the people and when I FINALLY get offered a job...it's not the job I applied for??!!

I don't know what to do.

[knorl05]

sweetness anna k!!! congratulations, that's awesome. keep us posted how it goes.

[sassy]

loridk: That's really crappy of them! They don't sound very professional...

[loridk]

How's this for a stupid situation: I got hired at a web design firm. The boss was impressed with my work, ect and hired me on the spot. Now I wait for him to call me in. And wait. It's been almost a month. He even got back to me and confirmed that I still have the job but they are just waiting for the flood of work to come in that they have to get done. So I wait. And wait.

[konphusion26]

Congrats AnnaK!

[anna k]

I got a job! I'm going to be working full-time at Shakespeare & Co., working the spring textbook rush. I'm glad to get some money and have a job post-college.

[octobersky]

Still no real job for me! Yep graduated in June, nothing for me.

I'm supposed to start a long term sub job teaching senior English, which is fine and dandy - but the pay STINKS and zero benefits - no health insurance or pay in to state teacher retirement. I'm hoping it will help fill out my resume, but bleh.

Good luck in the new year finding jobs Busties!!!

[konphusion26]

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[stellargirl9]

I've been unemployed for 6 months now and I have to say getting laid off was the greatest thing to happen to me. It gave me the push I needed to leave a crappy job full of toxic people (I was a paralegal at a law firm). I know I will have to start job hunting soon and I am completely dreading it. I just want to make sure this time around I get something I don't absolutely detest like I did my last job.