Contributor: Speak Coffee
So about 72 hours ago I did a great bitch and moan regarding grad school program websites. Instead of reposting I LINK!
The rest of me just feels this need to accomplish something I can point to and show off. (Preferably something printed and bearing my name on the byline.) This is leading to a lot of wistful sighing I don't believe I've earned.
I hate looking for work. Hate the thought of working a crappy job that I'm smarter than simply because the economy sucks and my work experience is all over the board yet I really just want to do something completely different than the parts of the board I've already covered.
Employers don't seem like my 31 Flavors approach to the working world either.
Employers know they're hiring for a Vanilla position so they want to see Vanilla in your resume. They want you to pick Vanilla and stick to Vanilla. Lots and lots of Vanilla.
They say they like diversity of experience and that doing a little of this and that makes you a great candidate. But when it comes down to it, they really don't understand why you've handed them a resume that lists Black Cherry Swirl and Pralines 'n Cream and Gold Medal Ribbon when they just wanted to see mountains of Vanilla staring them in the face.
Then there's that awkward moment where I get to explain the writing thing. I could choose to gloss over it, but there's a time frame where I really did view myself as a full time writer even though I could gloss it over and say that I was just getting ready to move and then moving to start grad school.
There's the dreaded question have you had anything published?
Ug. Can we please go back to talking about that Black Cherry Swirl now? How about that Vanilla even?
What can you possibly answer to that?
No, but I won a local award that didn't come with publication. um ... that sounds like I started on Monday and gave up on Tuesday. Or No, but everyone thinks I'm great and it's just a matter of time. Yeah, that's not my ego talking that's someon else's that I would have had to have borrowed for the interview. Besides it's pompous. And I don't do pompous, I do spunky. Or I'm trying to break into a very difficult and specific market. Maybe if it wasn't for the fact that it sounds like I'm trying to make myself aloof.
How about answering with the truth that I thought I had my life figured out and those months didn't matter in the big picture so I didn't work then for any place that took out taxes. But I didn't have my life figured out, and I still don't, but I'm working on it, and if you give me a job I will continue to work on figuring it out while showing up on time everyday. And I won't do drugs on the job. I'll even pee into a little cup to prove it.
Anybody else feel demeaned by jobs that require drug tests? I do! Can't most of us tell these things anyway? And if you can't, why not just fire the person because they're not doing their work like a normal employer would?
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