Hey y’all. I am still looking for painful gainful employment. It is a frustrating task. 300 applications later I’ve had a whopping two interviews. One of those I have already been rejected for. I have another interview on Friday but I am pretty convinced that working for a company that has a Better Business Bureau rap sheet that rivals Santa’s “naughty” list is probably not a good career move and won’t be at all surprised when they bait and switch and the “Administrative” position turns out to be whoring door-to-door. No thank you, not my cup of tea. I also don’t much like the fact that the guy used a friggin’ speakerphone to call me and his first question is “so, why are you looking for a job”? Dude… LOOK AT MY RESUME, ok? I sent it, along with an application and if you look… HEY, my last job was a thousand miles away from where I am currently applying from… could that, perhaps, be the reason I am seeking employment?
Seriously, though, I am not at all impressed with the agencies I’ve dealt with here so far. Y’all call me up, have me jump through hoops and then disappear like a rhino fart in the jungle (rhinos live in jungles, right?) and never tell me what I did wrong. Do you folks have some overlord that you need to send a “we conned X number of suckers into spending a half hour filling out paperwork” report to? At least the bitch at FruitNumber back where I used to live told me flat out that she didn’t even ever TRY to place anyone over a size 8. But I am starting to get paranoid that something is going on somewhere and I’m not picking it up and it’s just tanking all of my prospects. Yeah, I know the market is rough but a 300:2 ratio is absolutely ridiculous.
There is one agency out there that is advertising SPECTACULAR jobs but every time I go to apply for a new one (and this is all stuff that it is not at ALL a stretch to see that I am well qualified) I get a little popup that tells me that they have me on file, please stop applying. And, of course there is no phone number anywhere so I just have to sit and wait for them to deem me worthy of a scrap of their time.
I really hate to panic but the reality is that the money is about gone and when I start defaulting on credit cards and my credit score tanks, it’s going to make getting a job that much more difficult. I suppose it is an option to start applying for jobs that are an hour plus one-way commute but then you have to ask for a higher salary to offset all the money you are throwing into the gastank and putting into repairs, increased frequency of oil changes and the like.
I did have a side project I was hoping would turn into something good, but I sent out a prototype and there haven’t even been cricket chirps in response so I am thinking that’s a bust.
Thinking that soon I will have to do something like hit the mall and see if there isn’t a Claire’s or something that is hiring. I don’t know if I could cut it as a barista. I hear you have to have at least a Master’s Degree to get those jobs these days!