Okay, so I'm a little discouraged now...
May. 25th, 2006 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeI have no real reason to be feeling depressed. Well, yes, there's all the financial stress going on, but I'm doing my best to deal with that. I guess it's just a minor attack of the "Oh gods, why meeeeee?"s, which happens to the best of us on occasion.
I dislike feeling sorry for myself. It strikes me as a waste of time, and so when I do feel sorry for myself it just makes me annoyed. I spent many, many years being angry as a result. ;)
I dropped off my CV at Chapters and Indigo today, and applied online for a job to which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
silly_imp pointed me. The CBC site is stupid: it doesn't confirm that your application went through. I certainly hope the form worked. I am vastly underqualified for the job, but it would totally and absolutely rock if I got it. I think I'd do the job well, but I don't have the requisite experience and contacts in the Canadian literary world that they're calling for.
Why, oh why, do ALL jobs seem to require 5+ years' experience? Seriously, I've only been on the job market for four years (almost four and a half). How on Earth am I supposed to get a job if all jobs want you to have had a job for five years already? *sigh*
I've still been looking assiduously for emergency dispatch jobs, and thus far there hasn't even been a nibble. Nothing in emergency, and the jobs doing regular old dispatching are either only part-time or much too far away.
I think I'll head to bed early-ish tonight. Possibly lack of sleep is contributing to this latest bout of melancholy.
I dislike feeling sorry for myself. It strikes me as a waste of time, and so when I do feel sorry for myself it just makes me annoyed. I spent many, many years being angry as a result. ;)
I dropped off my CV at Chapters and Indigo today, and applied online for a job to which
silly_imp pointed me. The CBC site is stupid: it doesn't confirm that your application went through. I certainly hope the form worked. I am vastly underqualified for the job, but it would totally and absolutely rock if I got it. I think I'd do the job well, but I don't have the requisite experience and contacts in the Canadian literary world that they're calling for.Why, oh why, do ALL jobs seem to require 5+ years' experience? Seriously, I've only been on the job market for four years (almost four and a half). How on Earth am I supposed to get a job if all jobs want you to have had a job for five years already? *sigh*
I've still been looking assiduously for emergency dispatch jobs, and thus far there hasn't even been a nibble. Nothing in emergency, and the jobs doing regular old dispatching are either only part-time or much too far away.
I think I'll head to bed early-ish tonight. Possibly lack of sleep is contributing to this latest bout of melancholy.
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Date: 2006-05-26 03:03 pm (UTC)It's always worth applying for jobs that you're underqualified for. Often a job posting is the employer's wish list and he or she may not be expecting to find a candidate that meets *all* the qualifications. Alternately, something on your CV may stand out and intrigue the employer. When I got my break in medical writing I had no experience at all. Zip. What intrigued the employer (and got me the interview) was all the community-type work that I did. Once I got the interview I just bul-- ... err... talked my way into the job.