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Oh. I'm not sure how well that went. I thought I was prepared but the interview was pretty informal and I was nervous and I started fumbling/rambling a little. I'm usually pretty good at feigning confidence but I'm pretty awful at interviews I guess.
Maybe this wasn't such a good idea anyway. It's an internship I would love, but should I really be trying to get unpaid positions when I have so many bills? Shouldn't I be practical and use my Master's to get into research and make real money? Except I'm not experienced in most forms of biotech research. Still, a lot of people would consider an animal husbandry internship to be a "step down" for a graduate student...I just figured that in the face of continuing joblessness, any experience was good experience, and I *like* animal husbandry (even though it pays so poorly).
But I wonder if I later have to try and get a "real job" that pays, if doing animal care internships would seem like I was unfocused and goofing around and ruin my chances.
But then I wasn't getting any of those jobs anyway.
I don't know. I'm not sure what I'm doing and much as I try to hide that fact i wonder if the interviewer could sense it. I'll find out in a week or so I guess. I wish things weren't so awful right now where any little decision feels like it could make or ruin your chances of a career and where it seems like anything I *like* doing is setting myself up for financial ruin.
But it would be really damn cool to spend three months in Louisiana raising endangered cranes.
Maybe this wasn't such a good idea anyway. It's an internship I would love, but should I really be trying to get unpaid positions when I have so many bills? Shouldn't I be practical and use my Master's to get into research and make real money? Except I'm not experienced in most forms of biotech research. Still, a lot of people would consider an animal husbandry internship to be a "step down" for a graduate student...I just figured that in the face of continuing joblessness, any experience was good experience, and I *like* animal husbandry (even though it pays so poorly).
But I wonder if I later have to try and get a "real job" that pays, if doing animal care internships would seem like I was unfocused and goofing around and ruin my chances.
But then I wasn't getting any of those jobs anyway.
I don't know. I'm not sure what I'm doing and much as I try to hide that fact i wonder if the interviewer could sense it. I'll find out in a week or so I guess. I wish things weren't so awful right now where any little decision feels like it could make or ruin your chances of a career and where it seems like anything I *like* doing is setting myself up for financial ruin.
But it would be really damn cool to spend three months in Louisiana raising endangered cranes.