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[truepenny]

Have I mentioned I hate job-hunting?

There's nothing that makes you feel quite so much like a waste of carbon as getting turned down for a library shelver position. I didn't even make the interview.

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[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Yes. I suspect this comes back to bite me in four to six weeks.

I will let you know when I figure out the plan where the jobs come to us. :p

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I've had that happen a couple times. It is infinitely preferable to this nonsense.

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, you are never a waste of carbon! I'm sorry for the fretful and hope things go better soon!

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. Still, try getting rejected by McDonald's sometime. Boy, was that a low in my sorry job-hunting career...

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Oh jeez. Yeah, you win.

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

I comfort myself with the notion that it was because I was 30 years old and overeducated, but in my worse moments I'm convinced it was because they could see through the facade that has since deceived other into employing me, and recognised me for the incompetent idiot I am... ~wry look~ Long-term unemployment does nothing for one's self-esteem.

Good luck with the next one you go for!

[heresluck]

Well, damn. If only I could hand off a few of my years of retail wage slavery and professional apprenticeship; you need them more than I do right now. (Let's hope I still don't need them after my tenure review in two years. Heh.)

I know this was frustrating the last go-round and can only be more so now; I wish I could say something to make it easier! Barring that, I'll just note that I know that painful feeling of being turned down because of overqualification, and I am so, so sorry that you're having to go through that.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I don't think your department is stupid enough to let go of you.

[lferion]

It is the suckitude, and non-consentual at that.

I give you the icon of jobfindingness and loots of good wishes!

By the way, I've been reading your dissertation & really enjoying it. I'd forgotten how much I like reading close reasoning.

[violet-raincrow.livejournal.com]

Now, I can understand libraries turning down a poor college student like myself, but in your case? What the hell were they thinking?

[cammykitty.livejournal.com]

I hear ya. I'm job hunting too. I've got a part time job (32.5 hrs school year), but it doesn't pay the bills. Everyone loves me, but something stupid always comes up like I can't lift 50 lb bags of kitty litter. That library shelver position went to some library staffer's niece. Don't think twice about it.

[limb-of-satan.livejournal.com]

My sympathies. I'm sure you're plenty qualified but library jobs are few and applicants of every stripe (semi-qualified, under-qualified, over-qualified) come out of the wood work at the least hint of a job, any job, in the library field. I got my MLS and spent 9 months after applying for anything and everything - and getting rejected. Finally landed a lowly clerk/shelver type position, took it, and was grateful just to have a job. Library jobs in big cities, desirable markets, and any place that has a library school program are even harder to get. Good luck!