RL job stuff

[castalia]

Well, I've just submitted my first job inquiry (sort of pre-application thing) for when I'm finished with the master's.

Trying for this job at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. I'm going to need a job when I get home that will help me pay back this massive Stafford Loan and let me make some money while I'm looking around for funding for a PhD. I've enjoyed the husbandry experience during my project, so I figure aquarium work wouldn't be too bad.

I don't have the SCUBA certification, but I put intention to get it in my CV so maybe they'll overlook that. It's really the only qualification I lack.

It's going to be scary to leave Wales. I can always go home for a while and stay with my mom, but I'm going to be pretty much out of money come November. I can't be in limbo for too long before getting a job. I don't care where it is, but I need a job. There are no funded PhDs in cephalopods being offered this year, so I'm going to have to propose one and find funding for it, which will take time. Oy.

Comments

[krakenwakes.livejournal.com]

Indeed, good luck with job. Have my own anxieties about leaving the country, but the US is full of nice people, right?

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. As much so as any other country, IMO. Where are you thinking of relocating?

[krakenwakes.livejournal.com]

To Columbus, Ohio. Everyone says it is really nice, but not vastly exciting. Which is good for me since the job looks good and moving to another country is quite enough excitement for a bit. Also, as I said, at least one bloke I know said that he quite liked it because he found the people in that part of the US v. friendly.