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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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[truepenny.livejournal.com]

YES.

[lagringa.livejournal.com]

In a way, you could say I became an agent because I was overqualified for everything else I applied for after I was laid off from Random House.

Heh.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Having the Ph.D. leaves me overqualified for everything except a job I don't want.

I've almost got the problem licked with the whole writing thing, except for the part wherein the income is not what a person might call "steady." Nor "reliable." Hence my woe.

WOE!

[lagringa.livejournal.com]

Ditto that. Being a new agent means you have exactly zero income for at least a year, so I took a crappy data entry job to pay the bills. But, wow - melting my brain slowly but surely...

[txanne.livejournal.com]

SO TRUE.

Fortunately I wanted to teach in a fancy private high school. See my LJ for further blithering about that.

[myalexandria.livejournal.com]

I had this problem when I first got out of college -- *after* I actually did manage to get a job, I realized that what I should have done in the first place was taken my swanky BA off my resume and claimed to have been "doing community theater" or something equally uncheckable for the previous four years.