I have an interview next week! :D :D :D

[sanada]

It's for an environmental health and safety specialist position at the University of Baltimore - basically, making sure that the science department doesn't kill anyone or break any laws - which is fairly similar to what I did as an intern.

I really want this job. I mean, I'll take anything since I'm leaving my job at UMBC at the end of the month

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[randomdiversion]

Sounds like a sweet gig. I hope you get it!

[pigeon_chaser]

That sounds awesome! Good luck! :D

[chomiji]

Oooh, sounds promising! Knock 'em dead!

[sanada]

Thanks so much. I've applied for tons of jobs, but one in the university system like this is my #1 choice!

Haha, it's fine! Now that I think of it, I should have taken advantage of this shipping to order some manga... but really, I can wait until I go to Kinokuniya to buy manga! And I really should start with N4, since my kanji knowledge is seriously spotty. Without formal classes, I get most of my vocabulary from manga and the internet... so learning the phonetic readings of kanji/kanji compounds wasn't as important as learning the meaning. There are a loooooot of words that I can read but not say... and there are even some kanji that I intentionally memorized the wrong reading for because it was faster to type. Ahahaha... so I do better on the reading comprehension than the fill-in-the-blanks.

I should get the books by early next week, according to Amazon. XD It can't possibly be any worse than my Czech book, which doesn't bother to introduce any verbs other than "to be" for something like 5 chapters... oddly enough, after

[sanada]

Right, exactly. At least with a state job, you get things like benefits and vacation time, and you don't have to worry about the company going under. I've worked for 3 companies that have gone out of business or been bought out...

Haha, I think I learned more kanji when I read only manga with furigana! Maybe we should get in the habit of writing the pronunciation when we use kanji?

I guess since the JLPT is an international exam, they figure they can sell more books if they don't rely on English? Really, textbook design is awful...

[roundtuit]

Good luck on trying to get that job. I'm jealous that it's related to your field of study, but that is only because I'm still stuck in a brain cell killing job in retail hell. :P

[sanada]

Have you thought about going back to school? Not for history, maybe, but for something tangentially related... like historical conservation or something like that?

[roundtuit]

I have thought about it and I could possibly afford it, but I have a full time job and I would not be able to handle both with the completely random hours that I work. a few of my co-workers have tried and it does not work. I also don't know what I would go back for.