the making-myself-feel-better post
I've been feeling pretty crappy lately somewhere between stress from school (ack! thesis) and life (ack! job) and general downness from a long winter and, I don't know, whatever bad moods are caused by. Serotonin? Endorphin? Lack of marijuana?
So, I'm making the following egotistical list as a way of making myself feel better.
People who have expressed some interest in me:
- Department of Defense just sent me some kind of recruiting email. Yes, we are clearly compatible, the Department of Defense and I (I would flunk out right around the drug test)
- I got that because I got the PMF, Presidential Management Fellowship, a pretty good and apparently very competitive (only four people from my school got it out of like ten who applied) fellowship to work for the federal government (aka The Man) for two years. I probably won't take it because they don't seem to have anything in San Francisco
- a non-profit with whom I had a phone interview that I was convinced I bombed invited me out to DC for a real interview. I flew out a few weeks ago and they paid for everything which was cool. The job sounds great, actually, lots of working with international climate negotiations and lobbying on the Hill but it's, once again, located in DC where I don't want to be (that's my new rhyme by the way: DC, where I don't want to be)
- random professor at Texas A&M just emailed me because she saw that we are presenting at the same conference in Boston in a couple of weeks. She wants me to apply to her program. Interestingly, I'm not particularly interested in getting a PhD anymore but, hey, still flattering
- jobs finally seem at least interested in talking to me (usually informal emails or phone calls of recruiters or alumni or random friends I have in the organizations)
- the supervisor at CPUC seemed really interested in me and they actually are located in San Francisco (finally, someone!) but I am still like four steps of hiring bureaucracy away from an actual offer. Next step: four-hour civil service exam next Wednesday
So, I'm making the following egotistical list as a way of making myself feel better.
People who have expressed some interest in me:
- Department of Defense just sent me some kind of recruiting email. Yes, we are clearly compatible, the Department of Defense and I (I would flunk out right around the drug test)
- I got that because I got the PMF, Presidential Management Fellowship, a pretty good and apparently very competitive (only four people from my school got it out of like ten who applied) fellowship to work for the federal government (aka The Man) for two years. I probably won't take it because they don't seem to have anything in San Francisco
- a non-profit with whom I had a phone interview that I was convinced I bombed invited me out to DC for a real interview. I flew out a few weeks ago and they paid for everything which was cool. The job sounds great, actually, lots of working with international climate negotiations and lobbying on the Hill but it's, once again, located in DC where I don't want to be (that's my new rhyme by the way: DC, where I don't want to be)
- random professor at Texas A&M just emailed me because she saw that we are presenting at the same conference in Boston in a couple of weeks. She wants me to apply to her program. Interestingly, I'm not particularly interested in getting a PhD anymore but, hey, still flattering
- jobs finally seem at least interested in talking to me (usually informal emails or phone calls of recruiters or alumni or random friends I have in the organizations)
- the supervisor at CPUC seemed really interested in me and they actually are located in San Francisco (finally, someone!) but I am still like four steps of hiring bureaucracy away from an actual offer. Next step: four-hour civil service exam next Wednesday