a long week
This weeks has been - well, it's been interesting I suppose. I found out on Wednesday evening that I wasn't even going to get an interview for the most recent Vermont DEC job I applied for. This was a particularly upsetting, considering it was for the lowest type of position they offer, the kind you don't even need to have a college degree for. I wasn't perfectly qualified, I suppose (based on the experience they were looking for), but I certainly wasn't unqualified for it. And it's so frustrating, because I probably lost the opportunity to interview for this fucking entry level position because people with masters degrees were also applying. It's a really poor time to look for jobs in any environmentally related field. There just isn't any funding. So people with advanced degrees who should be making almost twice my salary are applying for jobs that *technically* I'm qualified for. But who's going to hire someone with a lowly undergraduate degree, when they could have someone with a masters degree?
So at any rate, it's back to the drawing board. I may start applying for other jobs in CT. This isn't going to really help get me to where I want to be - in Vermont - but at least I wouldn't have to deal with hating my job all the time. Or, even if I got a new job that I don't really like, maybe it could be more closely related to my interests. Or something. I'm still going to keep looking in Vermont, definitely not giving up on that. But the jobs there are so few and far between, and so highly competative... It's frustrating. I feel like I could apply for every job that comes along, be perfectly qualified, and still not ever get hired. That aspect that's out of your control, the other people who apply. It's killing me. (Not literally, but you know what I mean).
After that, the rest of the week was pretty much the same as always. Go to work, deal with people treating me like I'm inept, go home but never really relax. I drove to VT. Didn't leave until pretty late but mostly because I felt compelled to eat dinner before I left. The drive was brutal. I didn't really get all that much sleep this week, and although I hit up the local Starbucks before I left, I hadn't had my normal 4 pm coffee and ended up crashing (mentally, not my car) very shortly after I set off. I managed to make it in by 12:30 am, but I had to stop a bunch of times to keep myself awake. There were a bunch of people hanging out in the boys apartment when I got here, playing poker and whatnot. It was nice to see people and do something social.
Even if I was semi-antisocial and hung out mostly with Scott and Chip, telling them about ArcIMS and how they need to learn to use it. What do you want from me? I'm payed to be a nerd, after all.
So at any rate, it's back to the drawing board. I may start applying for other jobs in CT. This isn't going to really help get me to where I want to be - in Vermont - but at least I wouldn't have to deal with hating my job all the time. Or, even if I got a new job that I don't really like, maybe it could be more closely related to my interests. Or something. I'm still going to keep looking in Vermont, definitely not giving up on that. But the jobs there are so few and far between, and so highly competative... It's frustrating. I feel like I could apply for every job that comes along, be perfectly qualified, and still not ever get hired. That aspect that's out of your control, the other people who apply. It's killing me. (Not literally, but you know what I mean).
After that, the rest of the week was pretty much the same as always. Go to work, deal with people treating me like I'm inept, go home but never really relax. I drove to VT. Didn't leave until pretty late but mostly because I felt compelled to eat dinner before I left. The drive was brutal. I didn't really get all that much sleep this week, and although I hit up the local Starbucks before I left, I hadn't had my normal 4 pm coffee and ended up crashing (mentally, not my car) very shortly after I set off. I managed to make it in by 12:30 am, but I had to stop a bunch of times to keep myself awake. There were a bunch of people hanging out in the boys apartment when I got here, playing poker and whatnot. It was nice to see people and do something social.
Even if I was semi-antisocial and hung out mostly with Scott and Chip, telling them about ArcIMS and how they need to learn to use it. What do you want from me? I'm payed to be a nerd, after all.