Intro Post
Hello all! I'm new to the community; seen on the spotlight, obviously. I live in Seattle and have been unemployed for a whopping three weeks. I was working my dream job as a literary editor for an arts journal at my community college. It's a student-run publication with faculty advisors, so I qualified for the job based on my ability to spell and form sentences, and my desire to be an English major. It was an amazing seven months, but the publication has been printed and the school year is over. Hence, so is my job. And I definitely will not qualify for anything else even remotely like it, because I only got that job in the first place as a handout.
My job history is spotty. My longest held job was not even a year and a half. I'm twenty-one, so my parents try to convince me that anyone looking at the resume of a twenty-one year old should understand why they would not have held a job for very long. My jobs, starting at sixteen, have been courtesy clerk (bagging groceries) for 4 months (they couldn't accomodate my school schedule), cashier at a Farmer's Market (5 months, I moved away to college), barista for a month (I moved away to college and had just picked up that second job right before I moved), barista again for almost year and a half (got offered the literary job), and literary editor (6 months and then it was over). My resume looks patchy because it is patchy and there's no two ways around that, and I think it looks pretty bad to employers. Top that with that I'm probably moving AGAIN in 5 months (although it's not like I can tell that to anyone) and you've got yourself an epic fail. I've applied for unemployment but it takes weeks to go through. I'm bitter and not enjoying myself during unemployment at all. Hurrah! People to share my pain!
My job history is spotty. My longest held job was not even a year and a half. I'm twenty-one, so my parents try to convince me that anyone looking at the resume of a twenty-one year old should understand why they would not have held a job for very long. My jobs, starting at sixteen, have been courtesy clerk (bagging groceries) for 4 months (they couldn't accomodate my school schedule), cashier at a Farmer's Market (5 months, I moved away to college), barista for a month (I moved away to college and had just picked up that second job right before I moved), barista again for almost year and a half (got offered the literary job), and literary editor (6 months and then it was over). My resume looks patchy because it is patchy and there's no two ways around that, and I think it looks pretty bad to employers. Top that with that I'm probably moving AGAIN in 5 months (although it's not like I can tell that to anyone) and you've got yourself an epic fail. I've applied for unemployment but it takes weeks to go through. I'm bitter and not enjoying myself during unemployment at all. Hurrah! People to share my pain!