Disappointed

Alright, so my interview got pushed. The interviewer was sick, unfortunately, and didn't want to do the interview from home. We are rescheduling.

It was a little disappointing but things happen. I haven't heard from her yet but I imagine it'll be sometime next week.

I had a dream last night that she called my up and just hired me without an interview. It went something along the lines of, "Your resume is just fantastic. I don't even need to interview you. You're hired. When can you start?"

haha now if only. :)

New Interview

I have an interview today. Eek. It is a little nerve wracking I do have to say.

If I were to get this job that I am interviewing for it would do a few things for me. Move my life forward by:
a.) Getting me out of the place I've lived for the past 10 years
b.) Let me explore an entirely different industry which I think would be absolutely awesome.
c.) I would be able to afford an apartment!

I'm trying not to let my self get too excited for fear that I'm just going to end up babbling during the interview. I tend to do that when I'm nervous. It's worse when it's a phone interview. On the phone you can't read peoples reactions to what you're saying so you really can't tell if you're saying completely the wrong thing or doing well.

So at 11:45 a.m. I will be on the phone with a potential employer and am hoping all will go well and, fingers crossed, I will get this job.

Staffing Agencies

Ok this may seem pretty simple, but this idea has escaped me until this past week.

Staffing Agencies are a great way to find jobs. Duh!

You don't have to wait for them to contact you after you posted your resume on monster.com or whatever other search engine you posted it on.

There's a fabulous website called: www.headhuntersdirectory.com
There you can search by state and city and find staffing agencies and search the jobs that they're trying to fill.

It's awesome! Try it.

College Education at Work

The day started off quite well even with a threat of a big snow storm. I was actually getting geared up for it and was hoping to have a couple feet dumped on us today. It is into the 2nd week of December and we've barely had enough snow to cover the ground until today. Very unusual for the area where I live.

I got into work and was promptly greeted with an almost empty box of unsharpened pencils. Why does this matter? Well, where I work is a little slow on keeping up with the technology end of things. So why quite a few (generally larger) institutions have an electronic system in place for evaluations, we still do things the old fashioned way with paper and pencil. I had complaints about there not being any sharpened pencils; so I spent part of my morning sharpening pencils because the people who use them don't want to do it themselves. Ok fine. So in the midst of this task I had someone say to me "a college degree at work" and "let them sharpen their own damn pencils." The last part made me smile...the first part made me cringe.

4 years at a school to get a degree in a field where I can't even get my foot in the door (I've long stopped trying really) and here I am sharpening pencils.

I guess it's not the worst of fates. At least I have a job.

After a Very Very Long Hiatus

I kind of gave up on the blogging sphere and took a very long break...obviously.

Life got hectic, the novelty wore off and readership was down (not that it was very up to begin with).

But I thought maybe I'd start trying to update again and include useful things.

Ignoring the useful things for now:

Here has what has happened up til about now.

1. I was offered my temp job and became a full time, benefit eligible employee. This happened towards the end of July.
2. In the process, before I was offered the job, I almost moved to Massachusetts without a job and was going to strike it out there while living with my sister and brother-in-law. A very tough decision after I was offered the job. I struggled for about a week before deciding to stay. Who was I to spit in the face of a paying job with benefits?
3. After accepting the job, I was told, because of budget cuts, that my time was going to be split between two positions...
4. So now I am an Administrative Assistant and a Career Coordinator. Two full time jobs being done in half the time, about 19 hours a week for each, give or take a couple hours here and there.

So needless to say I was out of my head from August-September, while I was getting used to the idea, being trained in a new position, and taking up more responsibility that was left out on the temp job.

But! Experience is experience...and even though at times I feel like I'm going to strangle someone if they ask me to make 4 copies for them when the copier is larger than life right next to me, I have coped. I am learning.

I do have to say that I really have learned how to beef up my resume and cover letter.