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I hate job hunting
2007-Dec-18, Tuesday 03:24 pmI'm very surprised that I haven't been able to find employment after many months of looking. It seems that I'm either over-qualified or under-qualified for everything. And I suspect that my age is beginning to make a difference too. Dunno if the longhair is a factor. I think that the tech industry in general tends to ignore such things, though.
The baking career that I was expecting to start is on hold because no new trainee positions have appeared since I've been hunting. The two school/degree options that I considered both require money that I just don't have. I can't even get a job at the local Cub stocking shelves at night. I applied for more than one temporary holiday job, but I can't even get a call back to let me know that my application was received. Frustrating.
In addition to job hunting on my own (I turned in another 2 resumes today), I've now talked to 4 different "head hunter" firms. Some of them specialize in high tech jobs, some of them blue collar jobs. Only one of them has gotten me to the point of interviewing anywhere. I fail to see why they get to take a portion of my paycheck (someday), when I'm the one doing the actual job hunting. It annoys me to no end. I just have to make sure they don't all submit my resume for the same job position. No worries so far, since I'm the one doing all of the work, it seems.
I have no "pride" in such matters. I'll take a job anywhere on the Darwinian social scale. I'd even enjoy a job as a dishwater in a restaurant again, though it's been 20+ years since I last did that. When I escaped from college long ago, I took a temp job doing simple data entry at a local government agency. Once they saw that I "had a brain", I think I averaged a promotion once every 7 months. I advanced through every technical position from mainframe operations to mainframe programming. I climbed as far as I could in the career ladder without becoming a manager (which I won't do). It was a good turnaround: "temp data entry clerk" to "ADP Programmer III".
I wish it was still possible to work someplace just because I have a quick mind, not because of [x] months of [y] skill with [z] certificates. Here's the current list of [x,y,z], for what it's worth. (Please don't hand that out directly to any employers though.)
Frustrated and poor.
The baking career that I was expecting to start is on hold because no new trainee positions have appeared since I've been hunting. The two school/degree options that I considered both require money that I just don't have. I can't even get a job at the local Cub stocking shelves at night. I applied for more than one temporary holiday job, but I can't even get a call back to let me know that my application was received. Frustrating.
In addition to job hunting on my own (I turned in another 2 resumes today), I've now talked to 4 different "head hunter" firms. Some of them specialize in high tech jobs, some of them blue collar jobs. Only one of them has gotten me to the point of interviewing anywhere. I fail to see why they get to take a portion of my paycheck (someday), when I'm the one doing the actual job hunting. It annoys me to no end. I just have to make sure they don't all submit my resume for the same job position. No worries so far, since I'm the one doing all of the work, it seems.
I have no "pride" in such matters. I'll take a job anywhere on the Darwinian social scale. I'd even enjoy a job as a dishwater in a restaurant again, though it's been 20+ years since I last did that. When I escaped from college long ago, I took a temp job doing simple data entry at a local government agency. Once they saw that I "had a brain", I think I averaged a promotion once every 7 months. I advanced through every technical position from mainframe operations to mainframe programming. I climbed as far as I could in the career ladder without becoming a manager (which I won't do). It was a good turnaround: "temp data entry clerk" to "ADP Programmer III".
I wish it was still possible to work someplace just because I have a quick mind, not because of [x] months of [y] skill with [z] certificates. Here's the current list of [x,y,z], for what it's worth. (Please don't hand that out directly to any employers though.)
Frustrated and poor.