deep breaths, part 2, electric boogaloo

[phaballa]

Okay SO. So. Got a call from Grassroots Campaigns offering me the job. But they don't know where I would be placed. And after health insurance, it only pays about $20k, AND I would probably have to move locations in August for the voter drive. Way to make it worth it, Grassroots

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[wendy]

Hey, a job! Not ideal but still...better than nothing!

[phaballa]

TRUE. Job >> no job :P

[glendaglamazon]

Dude, the GC job sounds SUPER SUCKTASTIC! Seriously. I don't know that there is any good there, beyond helping to elect a decent president. Which, yes, important, but at the cost of your sanity and leaving you with no options come November? I really don't think so.

I can't imagine how trying and stressful a time this is for you, but I'd go in and interview with the University and keep beating the bushes for as long as you can while waiting to hear from Drug Job.

[phaballa]

Yeah, I think that's my only option. GC is just so... I mean, I *am* passionate about Obama and all that, but I don't know if I'm 100 hours/week passionate. I don't know if I'm barely-paying-rent, surviving-on-ramen passionate.

[puszysty]

If the grassroots people want you to move, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of why you applied in the first place?

That is very cryptic. But it definitely means you're still up for the position. :)

[phaballa]

Yes. I would have to store my stuff at Castle Greybeard and move... somewhere. Not 100%. There's a chance I could stay in Austin. I might tell him I need to know where I'd be placed before I can make a decision.

[brighton_girl]

Go for the interview with the University...I'm not sure I totally understand what Drug Lady was implying.

[phaballa]

Oh, I'm definitely going for my interview tomorrow. Because I feel like they're going to make a decision rather quickly at the University, and it would be an ideal, low-pressure job from which to search for something I *really* want.

[topaz119]

Interview the hell out of the cushy admin job and hold them off at the grassroots job, while you politely remain in contact with the Drug job. I mean, go in to that admin interview and impress the hell out of them, because unless you want to work in politics, the grassroots job is not going to be tremendously helpful.

[phaballa]

The only thing GC will do for me is look good on my resume and be tangible proof that I care about shit. BUT. I think AmeriCorps and Habitat for Humanity and working with homeless people and mentally unstable children already prove that sufficiently...

So yes. Be awesome tomorrow! That is the plan.