Ouch.

[funnel101]

It still stings to find a job I know I'm intellectually capable of doing, I have the required experience and skills... and know that I can't do it, because I can't handle 20 hours a week. I shouldn't have even looked. What was I expecting, a 5-hour-a-week part-time job? I want this job. And I know it's not even worth applying for; because if 1 hour

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[tanyahp]

Why not apply for it anyway? If you get it, you can always turn it down, but it'll still feel good to get it. And who knows, maybe they'll be amenable to fewer hours?

[funnel101]

Well... there's no point in applying if I can't do the job. And it's not like I could work 10 hours a week, or 15: I can't even do 5.

[tanyahp]

But maybe there is a point in applying in that you'll get the practice and see where your strengths lie. Then, if something comes along that you Can do, you'll have had the experience of applying and possibly interviewing. I just think practice is a good thing, and that it can't hurt to work on one's resume.

[funnel101]

I already have 2 paying freelance jobs. I'm doing okay with freelancing so far: all the people I'm working for know me personally and aren't pushing me past my limits. The only way my body can work is with a completely flexible schedule: not only when I work each day, but how much or little. Anything other than freelance will be too much.

[youngpadowan]

umm....

is the job home-based?
cause that says Philadelphia, with an address that it from Philly, and that you will have to attend occasional meetings, and from what I'm looking at on a map, you live nowhere near Philly.

see if the workload really is 20 hours a week, or if that's just a number they put because they're guessing. i can't tell you the number of times that's happened to me and other people here.

give it a shot, talk to the hiring people. *try* anyway. maybe the job isn't much more than 5 hours a week, and if it is, see if you can rearrange it to something that can accomodate your life. it's worth a shot.

[youngpadowan]

The meetings are conference calls, not physical meetings.

I can't, Bethy, that's what this boils down to: no matter how few hours per week they could give me, I cannot do a regular job. My fingers have been hurting now for 2 weeks from the 2 weeks during which I did 5 hours of work. My health is erratic. It's not predictable. I get sick about every six weeks. Things start hurting with repetitive use that didn't hurt before. There's just no way I could do this.

[funnel101]

Sorry, that was me. No idea how I got signed out.

[memoriesofearth]

If I'm reading you right, you want some outcome(s) of this job, and maybe some process(es), but not the structure, because it doesn't fit you.

Hard(?) question: What part(s) do you want? (No need to answer here, of course.)

There are many ways of getting the part(s) you want in a way that fit you, I bet. Maybe some of them involve something like this job. Maybe none of them do.

[funnel101]

I'm already doing freelance web design on my own, so that's enough, really. It was just discouraging because I should have known better than to look. What really drew me to this job was that it was for my Yearly Meeting, and I do want to serve my YM in some capacity. So, that was part of it, more than the actual job description. It was more like: "Hey, this is something my YM needs that I could do!" And then: "Wait... no, I can't because I can't work, remember?" I got my hopes up.