Job search uncertainties
The employment agency where I got registered first runs obviously the same adds in the local paper week after week (I have to check in my archives for how long). I think this most probably means that the agency doesn't really do anything except leeching fees from the employers, and maybe laundering somebody's money. I just stopped going there. The question is, why those employers keep relying on that agency instead of putting up an ad somewhere where the potential employees can contact them directly?
The other agency (where I got chided because the owner didn't like my CV) has now put up obviously the same ad from a month ago on the job add site, which is also a bad sign, but it could just mean that the employer is too bad to be tolerable. Anyway, I don't want to go there, to get chided again for whatever occurs to the owner this time.
A certain potential part-time employer wrote me an email to the effect that she didn't currently need the services of someone like me. I wrote her a thank-you email just because she had bothered to reply to my inquiry, for a change.
Maybe I have some chance to teach a Greek course just because there aren't likely to be many qualified applicants, but there are certain rumours about their company, and I don't know anyone who has worked for them to give me first-hand information. If they do want me, I'm not going to to work for them unless they agree to sign a contract with a precise description of my obligations and the payment they offer before I start work.
My possible job interview with my father's acquaintance is still pending, and I have serious doubts that it's going to happen at all.