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Job-related awesome and failure
This weekend has been awesome, even if it was spent with my family. Now we are heading to Philadelphia with the security of knowing that a ridiculously good job is awaiting at least one of us! It's seriously, stupidly good.
Immediately after the job offer, instead of being happy for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rainfall, my mother said to me, "Now you just need to get an offer that's just as good."
Recently this is what she's taken to doing. "I know you're impressed with your friend's job, but there are tons of people out there that would give you $60k full-time jobs with your level of experience and education!" I don't think she understands how insulting this is. I've tried to explain how wrong she is. How I spent four years unemployed, desperately looking not for a $60k full-time job in my field, but for any job in my field; part-time, substituting, minimum wage, I didn't care. Any foot in the door was better. I couldn't even get callbacks on those jobs. I eventually settled for anyone who would hire me, even though it wasn't really in my field, and involved being a temp for ten months.
But I guess if I'd been better at job searching, I would have found one of the many people who were begging for candidates with a Masters in Library Science but zero library experience. And I guess getting a job isn't satisfactory, I have to get one that makes web developer money in my notoriously-strapped-for-cash field.
Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I'm going to get a job at the circulation desk, or at a Trader Joe's or something I don't even care, and I'm going to tell my mom they hired me to be the King of Libraries. :D
Immediately after the job offer, instead of being happy for
rainfall, my mother said to me, "Now you just need to get an offer that's just as good."Recently this is what she's taken to doing. "I know you're impressed with your friend's job, but there are tons of people out there that would give you $60k full-time jobs with your level of experience and education!" I don't think she understands how insulting this is. I've tried to explain how wrong she is. How I spent four years unemployed, desperately looking not for a $60k full-time job in my field, but for any job in my field; part-time, substituting, minimum wage, I didn't care. Any foot in the door was better. I couldn't even get callbacks on those jobs. I eventually settled for anyone who would hire me, even though it wasn't really in my field, and involved being a temp for ten months.
But I guess if I'd been better at job searching, I would have found one of the many people who were begging for candidates with a Masters in Library Science but zero library experience. And I guess getting a job isn't satisfactory, I have to get one that makes web developer money in my notoriously-strapped-for-cash field.
Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I'm going to get a job at the circulation desk, or at a Trader Joe's or something I don't even care, and I'm going to tell my mom they hired me to be the King of Libraries. :D
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It suuuuucks. And it's hard to just get your foot in the door.
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1. I think the disdain has gotten even worse for those jobs these days since their pay and benefits have not improved (if anything, they've gotten worse) over the years the economy's gone south.
2. Networking is sadly the only way to get your foot in the door these days. How sad is it that it's basically a requirement that you know somebody on the inside to get even a *decent* job?
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For now, all the YAY because moving and excitement and all the good things~! Once you get settled in Philly I can only hope more awesome will follow. <3
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Anyway, I hope you rock the library world of Philly and/or take a picture of yourself with your King of Libraries crown. Because what good is a royal title without a crown to go with it?
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But I will definitely make a crown. :D