Winter..?
It's snowing, really snowing and sticking, for the first time this winter. I haven't been this excited about snow since I was a kid. It was just so weird to have all these winter months, heading into MARCH without snow. It makes me feel a little better about the world, really.
I applied for unemployment benefits today. I started working at the Albany Public Library branches in mid-November as a temporary clerk. I've got a civil service exam next Wednesday so hopefully I'll get moved into a permanent position after that…but I went from 15-20 hours a week to 10-12 to now 3. 3 hours a week is not enough. I'm waiting for unemployment to call me back, I think I should qualify since I make so little but I'm not really sure how it works.
I'm feeling pretty dejected these days about job prospects. I've applied to quite a few jobs but haven't been granted many interviews. One library had a part-time position available, I interviewed for it in December but never heard anything back. Yesterday I received a letter from them stating that the position has not been filled because it is now a civil service position (and never was in the past) and they have to hire from the current list. Apparently, there was a civil service open for Rensselaer county for one week at the end of December. Fucking yay. And they aren't opening it again for months. Double yay. So unless everyone on that list defers the job and they decide to hire me provisionally, I can't have it.
I'm waiting to hear from SUNY Binghamton about an art librarian position that I thought I'd be good for but it's been a while so maybe I wasn't any good after all. I have high hopes for Tompkins County Public Library - they put out a call for a full-time Teen Librarian. Perfect! And in Ithaca, where I love! I took the civil service, got a 100, and am 3rd on the county list. So hopefully I'll get an interview, and the other 2 people higher than me hate teens. Ha ha. But I don't really want to move right now…
Hudson Valley Community College had a position open but pushed it back to summer, interviews will start on March 26th. I'm hoping I get an interview.
I did apply for, and was granted an interview, with the Parsons School as a library assistant. But it was too stressful for a not-real-librarian job with no upward mobility. I almost cried during the interview when they were explaining to me how students come to their institution. 1st, they have to undergo serious abuse and trauma. Most of them have PTSD. 2nd, they have to be abandoned by their caretakers or have families incapable of providing proper care. 3rd, they have to exhibit violent and anti-social behaviors to the detriment of themselves and/or others at their current school. I felt so horrible for the kids, trying to imagine how terrible their lives must be. 14 year olds that can't read because their home lives have been such a wreck that reading just isn't important. Little ones, as young as 7. I am not cut out for human services, I wanted to throw up. The last thing I wanted to do was take the position knowing I would leave it as soon as I found a professional job. Those kids don't need people coming in and out of their lives like that.
I applied for unemployment benefits today. I started working at the Albany Public Library branches in mid-November as a temporary clerk. I've got a civil service exam next Wednesday so hopefully I'll get moved into a permanent position after that…but I went from 15-20 hours a week to 10-12 to now 3. 3 hours a week is not enough. I'm waiting for unemployment to call me back, I think I should qualify since I make so little but I'm not really sure how it works.
I'm feeling pretty dejected these days about job prospects. I've applied to quite a few jobs but haven't been granted many interviews. One library had a part-time position available, I interviewed for it in December but never heard anything back. Yesterday I received a letter from them stating that the position has not been filled because it is now a civil service position (and never was in the past) and they have to hire from the current list. Apparently, there was a civil service open for Rensselaer county for one week at the end of December. Fucking yay. And they aren't opening it again for months. Double yay. So unless everyone on that list defers the job and they decide to hire me provisionally, I can't have it.
I'm waiting to hear from SUNY Binghamton about an art librarian position that I thought I'd be good for but it's been a while so maybe I wasn't any good after all. I have high hopes for Tompkins County Public Library - they put out a call for a full-time Teen Librarian. Perfect! And in Ithaca, where I love! I took the civil service, got a 100, and am 3rd on the county list. So hopefully I'll get an interview, and the other 2 people higher than me hate teens. Ha ha. But I don't really want to move right now…
Hudson Valley Community College had a position open but pushed it back to summer, interviews will start on March 26th. I'm hoping I get an interview.
I did apply for, and was granted an interview, with the Parsons School as a library assistant. But it was too stressful for a not-real-librarian job with no upward mobility. I almost cried during the interview when they were explaining to me how students come to their institution. 1st, they have to undergo serious abuse and trauma. Most of them have PTSD. 2nd, they have to be abandoned by their caretakers or have families incapable of providing proper care. 3rd, they have to exhibit violent and anti-social behaviors to the detriment of themselves and/or others at their current school. I felt so horrible for the kids, trying to imagine how terrible their lives must be. 14 year olds that can't read because their home lives have been such a wreck that reading just isn't important. Little ones, as young as 7. I am not cut out for human services, I wanted to throw up. The last thing I wanted to do was take the position knowing I would leave it as soon as I found a professional job. Those kids don't need people coming in and out of their lives like that.