Whinging about jobs again.

[castalia]

Still nothing about a job, or even an interview. Am starting to mope.

I'm thinking of doing some substitute teaching for a bit, just to have some money coming in while I wait. It'll give me something to do and it'll be an easy job to quit whenever I do get a real job. I used to work for the school system here, so I'm sure it'll be no trouble to get put on the list so that the teachers I know can call me in.

Tomorrow I'm putting an application for this job in the post. It's a research assistant job at Newcastle University, helping with a behavioural project on birds. I'm hoping my combined degrees and the fact that I have an extra psychology degree will help overcome my lack of a PhD. No idea if I'll be able to get shortlisted for this one, but I really would like to have it. The pay is excellent, and with the exchange rate such as it is I could pay off my student loan easily within the two-year contract of the position. The research experience would look great on my resume, as well, and it's still within the area of animal behaviour so I wouldn't be going too far off the beaten track, topic-wise.

*crosses fingers and toes*

Pleeeeease, someone hire me. I can't hang around in limbo forever. The boredom alone is killing me.

Comments

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

God, yes. Temp agencies are useless in this situation - we're overqualified for most of their stuff and they won't even give out data entry jobs without "experience". Gone are the days when you could get a job for say, one day at a time. Wankers.

[icepixie]

I know! Even the lowliest peon jobs here want two or three years of experience. Ones which would actually use my degree want 5-10. It's insane.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

I hate that! Seriously, I think people like us are more than qualified to do a simple office computer-based job like data entry. Sheesh.

[icepixie]

I can understand (somewhat) the ones for the big HMO corps here who want employees to be experienced in medical billing applications. That makes a bit of sense. But the others...any moron can use Excel. Any monkey can be trained in various data entry apps in, like, an hour. Gah.

One day, we will be an award-winning editor and scientist, and we can hire peons with no experience to do our typing and data entry. *g*