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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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If it makes you feel any better, library jobs are incredibly competitive. When I worked in HR for the University of Missouri, we had applicants with PhDs applying for $8/hr front desk jobs in the library because the library market was so tight.

Ah, nothing like being overqualified, is there?

I'm sorry, hon. The process of applying for jobs and getting nothing is just so wearing and awful. Here's hoping that whatever good thing is going to come along for you (and I think something will) does so sooner rather than later.

My most-hated word when job hunting? OVERQUALIFIED.

Oy.

I feel your pain.

Ouch. Now I don't feel so bad on consistantly not getting that library assistant position.

YES.

Thank you!

Like many of the other commenters, I also feel your pain.

The job market seems to suck for a lot of people right now. I'm pretty sure it's nothing wrong with you, just that...well...the economy sucks.

But I will cross my fingers for you and wish you good luck!

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.

I agree with the first comment- the library field is *extremely* competitive these days. I've discovered this in my own searches over the years... But hang in there and be persistent, and good things will definitely happen! The perfect position often appears when you least expect it. ^_^

Youch. That sucks--and it is a 100% draining process.
I hope you get something that suits you soon--fingers crossed!

Thank you!

Sadly, this was the perfect position.

*nods* I've been applying for jobs at my local library for the last year and I've had one interview and no call-backs. *sigh* Overqualified for the entry jobs and since I've never worked at a library before underqualified for all the rest. *sigh* Job hunting is incredibly wearing.

Boy you sure are right. You do your resume, tell them how wonderful you are,and then...they turn you down. Does wonders for your confidence, doesn't it?

You'll be okay. Something fabulous will come along, and you'll be just the right person for that because YOU are fabulous.

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!

Yeah, that.

It really does suck.

Gah, I know what you mean.

(AFAIK, though, every tiny little library job is absolutely overrun with wannabe MLIS students, current MLIS students, recent MLIS graduates who can't find work, etc. etc.)

I can sympathize. I just finished 8 months of a grueling job hunt, during which I was often overqualified, underqualified, or the first runner up. (A year and a half teaching sex ed professionally and I couldn't even get hired to sell condoms and vibrators in a woman-positive sex toy store.)

Best I can say is to try not to let it shake you (though it will at times). Hang in there and things will shake out.

Ouch. If it helps, libraries ARE insanely competitive. It's the lure of the books!

Have a Firefly icon! It always makes me smile.

You were probably way overqualified.

Plenty of people have been talking about having to hide creds and dumb down in order to get hired.

Well, I'm simultaneously over-qualified and under-qualified.

I have the Ph.D. and the three years of college-level teaching experience, but I have no other work experience, aside from two summers doing secretarial stuff in college--which was, jeez, fifteen years ago. So if I don't have the over-qualifications, I got nothing.

This is, by the way and for anyone who's weighing pros and cons, an excellent reason not to go on to graduate school straight out of college.

Oh yes, I too know your pain ;P

I applied to the local newspaper on a whim (it's actually a pretty BIG newspaper). I certainly didn't expect a very fast turnaround NOR did I anticipate a very personal letter telling me, essentially, "what were you thinking?"

Good luck! *hug*

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...

Yep. Especially local to Madison, because of the tiny little detail of there being two library schools within a two-hour drive.

In about two weeks or so I get to start this process. There are no words for how much I dread the thought. Finding a job that still leaves enough of you intact you can write is difficult.

Good luck to you and good luck to me. We're going to need it.

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