What?  Susie is evolving!  Susie evolved from Travel Secretary/Receptionist at the Physics Dept. to Editorial Coordinator for the Environmental Science and Technology Journal at SPEA.  She has learned "higher salary".

Woooooohooooooooooooooooooo!

Today is my 2-year anniversary with the Physics Department.  That's right, two years ago I walked into this department wide-eyed and bushy-tailed.  I knew this was going to be a great stepping stone to a better job, but it would be great while I was here.

Well...that was a little naive.  I'm still here in a job I am incredibly over-qualified for ( Read more... )

It's me again!  I have another job interview sometime next week at the West European Studies Department.  I know surprisingly little about Western Europe.  Anyways, I'm not going to get my hopes up, because I lack skills with Dreamweaver and publishing websites, but you never know.

Apparently, I was the number 2 choice.  That doesn't make me feel better.  I just know that unless this girl dies in a fire in the next week or so, I will never have the job.  I can hope though.

I don't want to tell anyone though.  Everyone is just going to give me useless platitudes like "don't worry, something better will come along."  Honestly ( Read more... )

My interview ran and lasted one hour and 20 minutes.  Usually my interview last between 30 and 45 minutes, even when the interviewers like me and we have a few too many chatty diversions.  I'm an extremely animated person and can get off topic at times if I'm excited about something, but I still manage to get in and out in 45 minutes.  However, ( Read more... )

I have an interview today for a job that would be perfect for me.  It's Assistant Program Coordinator at the East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University.  It's not one, not two, but THREE pay grades above my current position.   Anyways, I think I would be really good at this job and that they should hire me!  I just have to make it through the ( Read more... )