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Finally!
Well let's see here now:
I started looking for a job a couple months before I graduated last summer, looking primarily i the UK because I wanted to stay there and get the all-important Previous Experience I'd need to get a job here. Plus I loved Scotland and just didn't want to leave. When I'd failed to land even an interview by the end of my course I gave up on the UK and concentrated my job hunt on the US and my little area in NC. I knew the economy was in the shitter and I'd need to stay with my family a while. But I had no idea how long I'd need to stay with my family.
It has been 11 months since I graduated with my Master's from quite possibly the best program in the world for my career field. I've had 7 in-person interviews, 3 phone interviews, and 3 skills tests. I've been told no by at least 5 companies and heard nothing at all from countless more. I have signed on with three employment agencies.
As of one month ago, I finally received the one, and only, offer that has come my way. It's a one-year contract thing with a company that's *technically* in my field, but just because chicken liver is technically an edible food doesn't mean it's something I actually want to eat. However, I'm not dumb enough to turn down a job offer when it's the only one I've received in over a year of looking.
So I've finally, finally, finally got a job. It's boring as hell and I spend half my day looking at the clock and reminding myself how much longer till I get to leave, but the pay is almost exactly what I was hoping to get in my first professional job, it totes benefits, and it gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
I finally get to start paying back my college loans. I can make real plans for the future, because I will walk out of this thing next year with that all-important Previous Experience and with savings in the bank and a significantly improved credit rating. And best of all, I can feel like my life has value to the rest of the world again.
It's a total Waiting To Exhale moment.
I started looking for a job a couple months before I graduated last summer, looking primarily i the UK because I wanted to stay there and get the all-important Previous Experience I'd need to get a job here. Plus I loved Scotland and just didn't want to leave. When I'd failed to land even an interview by the end of my course I gave up on the UK and concentrated my job hunt on the US and my little area in NC. I knew the economy was in the shitter and I'd need to stay with my family a while. But I had no idea how long I'd need to stay with my family.
It has been 11 months since I graduated with my Master's from quite possibly the best program in the world for my career field. I've had 7 in-person interviews, 3 phone interviews, and 3 skills tests. I've been told no by at least 5 companies and heard nothing at all from countless more. I have signed on with three employment agencies.
As of one month ago, I finally received the one, and only, offer that has come my way. It's a one-year contract thing with a company that's *technically* in my field, but just because chicken liver is technically an edible food doesn't mean it's something I actually want to eat. However, I'm not dumb enough to turn down a job offer when it's the only one I've received in over a year of looking.
So I've finally, finally, finally got a job. It's boring as hell and I spend half my day looking at the clock and reminding myself how much longer till I get to leave, but the pay is almost exactly what I was hoping to get in my first professional job, it totes benefits, and it gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
I finally get to start paying back my college loans. I can make real plans for the future, because I will walk out of this thing next year with that all-important Previous Experience and with savings in the bank and a significantly improved credit rating. And best of all, I can feel like my life has value to the rest of the world again.
It's a total Waiting To Exhale moment.
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