so yeah, making it all official and stuff...

[chibirisuchan]

Just a general public service announcement since it's been a long time since I've posted anything fic-like here (as opposed to communities), and it's probably going to be a while longer before I get back to anything fic-like

Comments

[sesshiyuki]

Yay that you're still alive! yay :D I hope your job situation improves sometime in the near distant future, and the new housemate works out (and isn't allergic to cats and dusting?)

[chibirisuchan]

Thank you! She seems pretty cool so far, is quite enthusiastic about the cat (more so than the cat is about her so far; it usually takes the big scaredycat a few weeks to decide that any new person is not a cat-devourer), and I'm looking forward to having someone around to help divide up house stuff with because it'll be really nice not to have to do EVERYTHING myself when I'm also diving into grad school! *fingers crossed!*

[maureenlycaon]

Good luck!

[chibirisuchan]

Thank you! I have a feeling I'm gonna need it. XD

[peacewish]

Good for you, preemptively taking action to ensure your own career stability, instead of just waiting for the hammer to fall like your fired coworkers. It's not their fault, of course, but real life just happens and it's the people that plan ahead who survive the Happens part. I admire you very much. I personally can't even face the thought of grad school, even though I've been in and out of unemployment for 5 years and my family has begged me to do it. I just can't. I hate the thought of going back to being a student, instead of working to contribute to the GDP. All I want to do is work, and the world spits on me because I only have a bachelors degree. The college-degree job market has become overcrowded with us, and that's why only masters people get interviews. It's frustrating and unnecessary, but a couple decades of politicians insisting that 'everyone' deserves a college education and cheap publicly financed colleges have resulted in a glut of interviewees. Here in Austin, a university town, doctoral candidates are

[chibirisuchan]

I am right there with you on being mad that I have to. I'm really not doing this through any great passion for the subject. I'm doing this for the cold hard bottom line, which makes me feel a bit like a sell-out. (I was the starry-eyed gonna-be-novelist in college the first time around, before I learned that no one actually makes a living writing fiction and if you want to make a living writing, you do it with what other people will pay you money to write for them, which is nonfiction

[fer_de_lance]

The heart arrhythmia's largely under control, thank goodness

I actually have a serious lead on a potential housemate for this fall!

I'm taking the plunge and seriously working on finishing off a masters in information science

Whoa, that's a whole lot of good news/awesomeness! So glad to hear it! :D (Not so much the inheriting jobs thing, though. Bah.)

[chibirisuchan]

Yep! Yay for some impending awesome! (And the possible roommate has turned into a definite roommate, woot! She's working on a postdoc in molecular biology and she's several years younger than I am. I am impressed and intimidated. Now I just need to convince my cat that she is not a carnivore... or at least not a cat-hunting carnivore, though I've seen her eat chicken. I probably should not mention that to my fraidycat. As far as I can tell, he pretty much thinks meat is meat.)

[chibirisuchan]

Thank you! Yeah, it'd be a 2 years masters program if I was doing full time classes, but I'm sticking with my more-than-full-time job and trying to find some more hours to stuff masters classes into on the side. XD;;; I guess this proves I am certifiable as well as diploma-able...