Job Interviews & MA Results

[b_c_draygon]

So. I should probably post something about the Job Situation. As you probably know (or will have gathered by the end of this sentence), I've just finished my MA in Writing.

I found out today that I not only passed, I got a Distinction. (My mark for my final piece was less than stellar, though I don't know why, annoyingly. I put so much into it.

Comments

[siraplowe]

I'm sorry to hear that the job interview was a total waste of time - if they'd been upfront and honest with you in the first place, then there's presumably no way you'd have gone along for it, because you'd have known it wouldn't have been for you? I guess they do it to try and trick people into doing door-to-door sales, which isn't really fair, but I guess it's not going to be many people's life ambition.

It's rubbish that it kind of ruined what should have been a happy day for you, too, finding out that you'd got a Distinction in your MA (and also rubbish too that your parents hacked your e-mail to let you know how you'd done - unless you asked them to do that, but then 'hacking' kind of suggests they did it without you knowing?), but hey, at least there's some sort of positive to come out of the day - better that than just a miserable waste of a day?

Hopefully the upcoming busy week with fun things will take your mind off it. :-)

[b_c_draygon]

Yeah, it was a whole day of my time (and their time!) completely wasted. :/ If they'd just said what it actually was up front, I would have just said, "I'm not interested" and that would have been it. *sigh* Yeah, it's not really a life ambition, and they do have a great program for advancing in the company - but ... it's not for me.

That's what's really bothering me at the moment. :/ (My Dad's had my password for ages, and it doesn't really bother me because I know he wouldn't look unless I asked - usually! I can understand why they did it, but ... also, I didn't want to find that out the way I did. Blegh.) At least there is something positive. It wasn't all crap. :)

Yeah, next week will make it all better! :D

[hermitknut]

*hugs* I'm torn between being madly jealous (I'm still in the "can't even get an interview" stage and have been for a while) and very sympathetic (sounded like no fun at all). It's really frustrating when something you should be excited about happens in the midst of other stuff so you feel like you've lost the moment.

On the plus side: Congratulations on your MA!! That's fantastic :) I'm in the third year of my BA now, and still haven't decided if I'm going to do a Masters yet :S I'm probably going to wait until I see my parents and then have a long talk about it...

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[b_c_draygon]

*hugs back* Thanks. I feel kind of bad saying no to them because of that (knowing that I'm lucky to even get an interview, let alone a job) - but ... it was so, so crap. And so, so not me. Ugh. The fact that I lost the moment of finding out about my MA was probably the worst part of yesterday. We were planning on going out for a celebration and everything! Of course, that was snookered - I only left the office at 11pm!

Thank you very much! I'm so happy with it - I really poured everything into this MA and I've loved it, so it's lovely to get a really good mark out of it. :) Oh, wow, decision time, eh? Well, if you do decide to go down the MA route, make sure you're doing something you really love. That's the best advice I can give you. (That and to definitely do it if you can and really want to, because the graduate jobs situation is appalling. :/ But hey, enough doom and gloom!) I hope your chat with your parents goes well. I'm sure you'll make the right decision either way. :)