testing the waters of the "real world" again
monday i start a part-time gig with the WI DOT. its a GIS position, indeed, a job utilizing the supposed skills and knowledge that i was to aquire this past year...needless to say i am nervous. i feel significantly less than prepared for this kind of work, which is both furstrating and disheartinging given the +10K i just dropped this past year on learning about this stuff...stuff that i am not even sure i WANT to learn about. i know that i should be encouraged by the fact that the DOT GIS person thought i might even have the skills and abiltities they seek...but i am not sure given the extent of "interviewing" consisited of 1) have you ever digitized a map 2) do you know what the public land survey system is...uh "yeah"...that's an affirmattive on both...so for 15 bucks an hour i am either doing some really basic work or they are assuming much bigger and better things from me then what i really have.
we shall see...*gulp*
the job is pretty short termed...only a month or so...which means i need to find something else...happily i do have TWO interviews this friday at the dept of natural resources!!! these will be real interviews...a panel and all...*shudder*...this is not my first time, so at least i know what to expect. the one position is part time, conservation biologist, working with whooping cranes, which would be pretty cool and nice to use my BS again! the other is another GIS position...though one i actually feel fairly confident about (at the moment at least, we'll see how i feel after i try my hand at the DOT job)...the DNR GIS job (hmmmmm...how many acronyms can i fit into this post?) is working with FEMA (oh joy) on floodplain mapping in the state...so at least conceptually i get where this project is going and what the position entails....its a start.
we shall see...*gulp*
the job is pretty short termed...only a month or so...which means i need to find something else...happily i do have TWO interviews this friday at the dept of natural resources!!! these will be real interviews...a panel and all...*shudder*...this is not my first time, so at least i know what to expect. the one position is part time, conservation biologist, working with whooping cranes, which would be pretty cool and nice to use my BS again! the other is another GIS position...though one i actually feel fairly confident about (at the moment at least, we'll see how i feel after i try my hand at the DOT job)...the DNR GIS job (hmmmmm...how many acronyms can i fit into this post?) is working with FEMA (oh joy) on floodplain mapping in the state...so at least conceptually i get where this project is going and what the position entails....its a start.