...screaming at the top of your lungs/ you say come on, come on/ do what you want...

[myurbandream]

So I haven't done a post of just-life things in a while, and maybe it's time for that.

I dunno.

Anyway, we're moving to a new apartment NEXT WEEK and I am still going through the office closet having moments of discovery. About two-three weeks ago I finally got through all most of the boxes my mom shipped down from Wisconsin, and then we decided to move. (Also I got crazy into XM:FC fandom and then LJ shut down for, what, four days?) But now that moving is imminent, I've started excavations and found a few boxes from... well, the adventure has been in finding out when they were from. Not much got thrown out (I think I'm past that phase, at least for now) but a lot of stuff got sorted through and consolidated.

Also I applied for an internship on Sunday night, and heard back via email this afternoon about it - they want to talk over the phone about the position. This is not quite a true phone interview, since there wasn't much on the website except 'we have an opening' so it is more about me asking "what is the job?", but I am calling it a phone interview in my head. I need the pressure. That may happen tomorrow, so today (after epic closet excavations sprung upon me and were thwarted) I got on their website and stomped around learning things.

The job thing has been kinda depressing me recently. I haven't applied to but a handful of places (in small part because I am actually reluctant to get off my ass and work, what a shocker, I've known I'm a lazy butt for years now) but mostly because it's very discouraging when nine out of ten job ads I come across are asking for qualifications well above mine. Mostly they are asking for three to five years of experience or a master's degree in whatever, neither of which I have; I got a five-year professional degree and I'm still an entry-level employee, go figure. Also very few places even have openings advertised, given the current state of the economy. I am working the few connections I have, but so far those have led back to me being under-qualified.

Hence the (unpaid!) internship.

But also I need to work on my portfolio, which I haven't done since a few weeks before end of fourth year. I have all the drawings and model photos (at least I think I have model photos of my fourth year final project.....) so it's just a matter of putting them into the format I already have set up for the rest of my portfolio, rearranging projects, and then printing, trimming and binding a new copy for interviews. I say "just" but that is actually a shit-ton of work. I might have got up the effort to start on it in mid-July, but that was when we decided to move and all the packing shenanigans ensued.

By 'packing shenanigans' I mean that Jim works 55+ hours per week and I do not - I'm the house-spouse, so I am sorting/trashing/packing by myself. That on top of capitalising on the fact that for the first time in five years I have the time to actually, God bless it, get 8 hours of sleep every night, clean the apartment on a regular basis, learn how to cook things and then execute said knowledge for my bread-winning hubby, and even occasionally resurrect my social life.

I have so much respect for housewives.

(Or homemakers, or whatever the PC term is now.)

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Yes, this was really just a rant about how I am lazy and finding a professional job in a down economy with no experience is hard, boo hoo me. God, I am such a whiny brat.

Comments

[wuffielover.livejournal.com]

Lol, I was looking at zoo jobs this week and experiencing the same 'under-qualification syndrome.' The thing is, most zoos want you to have a degree in biology, but they pay shite. Like, the one I ended up applying for in San Antonio actually pays *less* than I'm making at the shelter. Definitely a topic I'll be bringing up if I get an interview. :P Also, call me! Or I need to call you! But I never remember :[

[jen-chan13.livejournal.com]

That is a sad, sad thing, when the job that needs a degree pays less than the one that doesn't. This is why I think too many people are wasting their time going to college. Welders can make $100,000 in the right conditions, and all you need to get started in that field is, what, a year or two of technical school?

Jim's friend Jake also has a degree in HRM and a fancy job with corporate HEB, but Jake's wife Emily is the breadwinner. She is a regional manager at Target. And Jim works alongside managers that never got a degree and have just been in the business since high school. Proof that being good at a job doesn't require an education, or that a good education will guarantee you a good job. :P

What the hell, world?!