find a job

I swear I am the Susan Lucci of Roswell Park Cancer Institute. I have interviewed with them twice and one time I got the job but my stupid boss screwed that for me. Just when I thought that was over, they called me again and I am meeting with them for another department doing research. Right now I am working for the man at a health insurance company which, sounds just as horrific as you would think it would be. Its like everyone here is a drone, no one really smiles or laughs or talks really. The temp agency that placed me has lied about EVERYTHING from it being full time (its not, part time only, found that out today) to when training would start (you need to quit Childrens and start this place Monday…Thursday they call and say that I wont be starting for ANOTHER week so I had a week off AND burned a 3 year bridge)...to, well, everything.
So, I interviewed Monday with a University and today is Roswell. The company chose me to be one of 3 people to train for a hard job because I am bright and motivated. I told them today they should pick someone else because I wasnt going to stay because I need full time. I would stay on and do the daily work that 3 other people were doing. The manager told me today might be my last day. If I cant afford part time, I cant afford to not work. So, being honest and telling them they should chose someone else so they didnt waste the time or money training me didnt go so well.
I shot myself in the foot.

It’s fun how fast things turn around. Christian got a lead on place that was going to have work soon and had me call them. They got excited when I said that I ventilate hair and said they didn’t have anything yet, but I should call them next Tuesday and they’d have it worked out then!

A lead!! I also have a place like this to call back on the 23rd. Between the two, hopefully one of the places will hire me. :)

I called about 20 places today. Got to talk to 5 of them. 4 of them want me to send stuff in. One of them said there’d be a lot more work for me if I punched hair as well.

Hopefully things will up soon. Christian’s got a lot of positive feedback, which is awesome. I’m usually more optimistic, it’s just be a hard week.

I am very hesitant to mark this goal off as completed just yet. I have a job, I went through orientation today and will have my schedule tomorrow. Sounds really good, right? Wrong. Just orientation at this company alone was awful enough to send me to tears (when I got home of course is when I let them all out). So I think I’m going to hold off on checking this one off the list, but still keep the job and continue to look for another job. I have to remember that with “today’s economy”, a job period is hard to come by.

Got another job lead, but I’m not sure what this recruitment agency is thinking in putting me forward for it. I’ve got no skills to suit it. The salary is pretty lousy as well, but beggars can’t be choosers. My pride is so wounded right now that I’m not expecting to get very far with this. All the skills I’ve learned in these past 5 years seem to have made no difference. No one wants to hire me.

I confess that I thought being American might give me an edge – My old employer hired me based on his belief that Americans have better work ethics – but I think it’s actually going against me. Naturally employers want to give their own people first choice, especially with so much animosity going on between the Scots and certain ethnic minorities recently migrated into the country.

Anyone know how to make $40 stretch for a month?

I’m now an office assistant at Guam CEDDERS aka the Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service.

So I have orientation for the job that I interviewed for a few weeks ago. And it’s paid orientation…so I’m thinking I got the job :) My boo took the call, so I wasn’t able to get all the details I personally would have liked, but oh well…it’s one step closer!

Deliver one letter with a CV today and one application from to hand in tomorrow.

I went to an shop to ask for a job but it was closed, so back tomorrow to see if it open, if not, I shall write a letter to ask.

wow, this is going badly. I just got rejected from a Macy’s holiday position because my “skill sets” didn’t “match their needs.” I’ve worked in retail four years and offered them completely open availability. Wtf?

I’m trying to apply to crappy positions as well as jobs that I’d actually want. This means that I might be working in retail again, but, as I’ve complained before, no one in retail around here is hiring. I’m applying today to a researcher position in Chicago that I’d absolutely love, but don’t expect to get (they’d prefer someone bilingual, the ad says, and I am not) and I’m going to try to get accepted into an Americorps Vista program. Student loan deferments FTW!

Unemployment is rising, and the crisis is spreading like an oil stain. Good luck to me and all the rest!