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How I got a job:
Step 1: Try with a Bachelors to get jobs I really really wanted
Step 2: Quit trying and get a Master's
Step 3: Get tired of school, even if it is a good deal.
Step 4: Apply non stop to every job I'm even remotely qualified for whether I really want it or not. (That's 4-10 resumes per day (Sunday through Wednesday and occasionally Thursday) -- spend time on the ones for jobs I want, send slightly modified form applications to ones I don't)
Step 5: Accept every interview regardless of how crappy the job seems
Step 6: Repeat for 3-4 months, until a decent offer comes around.

--At the end of this process, I had about two dozen interviews (on phone and in person), and three offers (well, two, but the one job I could've had if I wanted it enough to tell the interviewers what they wanted to hear instead of what I really thought about their corporate culture), and a slow moving prospect that offered me a job two months after I had accepted the one I'm at now (almost 5 months after I had first applied, and 2 months since I had last tried to contact them).

So that's something like a 5%-10% callback rate (Granted I applied for many jobs I was barely qualified for), but still... finding a job fucking sucks.

Of course, my industry is a soul sucking one, and I was prepared to sell it for the right price. Though the job I did eventually find is one in a small company where my voice really gets heard and my opinion regularly asked, which is INCREDIBLY rare. So, yeah, I lucked out.

I'll stop rambling now. I guess my answer is Persistence and Luck is how to get what you want... probably for just about everything in life.

[Edited on Oct 19, 2005 6:22PM]

Being a pirate didn't help me get the job... but it is making it more interesting.

I just love Fiona Apple! How are you doing?

clearly, the only option is to set up our own female ruled city state.

I'm just having fun watching Hull be a fourth line winger

he should be golfing with Mess

Okay, nothing makes you more sexy than what you just posted. I'm in love! No, really, it's love! Heh.

An article on Moore: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2190095

call me today

Once again you are right. Talk is cheap, put out or shut up. I meant put up, I swear!

I talk lots of shit, and even got my red-state national gaurd friend to quiet himself about Iraq (it's funny how the truth can work!), but I've not done a goddamn thing. So I should take what's come to me like a man and do what can be done to prevent some of my other rights from eroding.

rockstar who...?

rockstars get paid!

You watch too many movies.
It's not real.

plus, I'm a big pussy anyhow.

Thanks, the fact that you left me that message does actually help. At least for a moment!

have you heard that thing that Exine did with Eve Libertine?

I'm wondering if a place like Mile High Comics can take care of your needs. I've never personally used an online ordering service, but for some reason I thought I heard that they're a good outlet. Just a thought!

You submitting anything to Best Shots this week?

You're preaching to the choir, babe. And I knew you used to frequent the Denver store. Remember, we were both from Colorado at one point?


Trust me, I will never live ANYWHERE that I can't get to a comic book store on a weekly basis. Like where families scope out schools before they move, that's how I would be about comic book stores. Scary thing is that I am NOT exaggerating.

Reading this still makes me sad. Got no words for it...... Hope that out of all of this, some good will emerge.