... the job in question having been outsourced. WTF guys, why did you advertise it in the first place, if you were about to outsource it?

Now I remember why I dislike online job seeking portals. They force you to choose one particular field of employment, from a very short list (ca. 20 fields) that invariably doesn't contain neither what I've done so far, nor what I could see myself doing in the future. How am I supposed to fulfil that requirement? Especially when I'm not really ( Read more... )

Speechless...

ETA: I.am.SO.scared.

Just got an invitation for an interview for the three to six-year university position for which I made my Ph.D. proposal thingie in the last few weeks.

WHAT DO I DO NOW????

(Also, wtf am I doing right, now, that I apparently did wrong the 1.5 years before?)

*boggles*

*frets*

ARRRGH!

Complete, unmitigated disaster. Presented myself from my most socially incompetent (etc.) side, and in the course of that managed to appear fairly incompetent in every other way, too - incompetent to use my native language, even! I operated under a near-complete blackout - couldn't remember the names of authors I know well, couldn't describe what I ( Read more... )

Was ist die bessere Anrede:

Sehr geehrte Frau Professorin Müller

oder

Sehr geehrte Frau Professor Müller?

I really will be a full day late with this. Or rather, the e-mail version (they want both an e-mail version and a paper version) will be on time, but the paper version won't. :-(

Which means I won't have time to do all the reading I was planning to do.

Double gah.

Tomorrow is absolutely the last day I can spend on that Ph.D. thing. And the cover letter. And the C.V. And everything. And I still don't have the first fucking clue how to do it. I wrote less than one sentence today on the proposal, and haven't even *begun* the cover letter ( Read more... )

*boggle*

(I'm applying for a uni job which sort of requires it. I know it's extremely unlikely I'll get the job, and maybe it's a bit crazy to invest *that* much energy and time into something as unlikely as that job, when I could apply for half a dozen other jobs in the same time, but it's the first uni job that's appealed to me, so...)