Sunday Jun 03, 2007

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I need a job. I don't think there is anything in this world more frustrating than job hunting. I feel like I have to find some high class job to justify the fact that I need to pay off $20,000 worth of student loans. But in reality all the jobs that I want to do don't even require me to use the degree that I have. I think I'm just having issues reconciling that internal struggle.

In other news my fiance and I are getting married on June 20th. We're just doing a civil ceremony to get the legal status of being married and next summer (after recovering from the expense of moving across the country) we're going to have a more traditional wedding ceremony. I'm way excited. biggrin
wtf:
Hi, just wanted to stop by after reading your comment in a group thread. You are gorgeous!
Congrats on the moving thing. I quit a sales job making more htan I ever had to go back to school full time. Now I work 2 part time jobs not to drown. Job searching just sucks. At first it's exciting, but after your dream job doesn't land on your doorstep, it...sucks. I'm really freaking out now that I have over 6K in loans and read your comments because I keep telling myself that it's all worth it. (laugh) deep down I know it is, as long as I can enjoy this ride.

Good luck with the new life, house, wedding and all.
wtf:
Sales can be pretty intimidating, especially when you're fully comissioned but on the other hand, it can be rewarding and addictive. I went in for multiple reasons, but it wasn't bad considering I don't have a degree. I made very good money but it didn't give me a sense of acomplishment and certainly didn't comand respect from my superiors. It was a male dominated field, so no matter how old I was, I would always be the "girl who knew nothing" which was frusterating. I left being #1for the month just to spite hte boys and decided on school full time since they wouldn't even work around a single class. (who needs money anyway?)

Stress can be a factor too, and job satisfaction. The good part of any sales job are the skills that become second nature and never go away. If you're in marketing you know what I mean. In an odd way, we all need to sell ourselves at somepoint. (That sounds really bad doesn't it?, eh, that's what an interview is for pete's sake) I'm on my 15th or is it 16th job now since I started working at 14. You think I would know exactly what I want to be when I grow up, I think I may be eliminating my choices one by one wink

I remember going to breakfast with my mom and waiting for callbacks from various interviews and telling her I wasn't afraid of NOT getting the job, I was going to be afraid when I got it because I didn't have a clue and knew I was going to have to swim and fake it until I made it.

Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

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