[ SECRET POST #2028 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2028 ⌋

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Comments

[demishock]

I think this is my favorite comment in this thread. Breaking the process down into steps is the only way I've been able to go about job-hunting as well. I spent a very large chunk of my time last year when I was between temp jobs reading articles on Ask a Manager. I also got signed up with my local Department of Labor to do a bunch of (free!) job-typing seminars and Microsoft Office refresher courses and the like. I'm assuming the breaking-it-down method would be a viable option for the OP, since they apparently have enough funds squirreled away to manage to survive and be online participating in fandom. I get that it'd be hard for someone who's living hand-to-mouth and can't really afford to be spreading their time out like that, but for someone with a bit of savings, it's a good plan, IMO.

I wish I could figure out what my "dream job" is. I graduated (with a degree I'm no longer interested in - once it's work, it stops being fun for me) three years ago and have been doing clerical temp work ever since. The most depressing thing about it is that I spend all day with my coworkers and boss telling me how great I am and how they wish they could keep me, and then the corporate Powers That Be decide it's "not in the budget" to hire me on permanently. :/ And then I'm supposed to come home after 8 hours of that and hunt for a "real" job, which is almost a full-time job in and of itself, and it's like banging my head repeatedly into a wall. So I, too, use fandom to recover from all that bad mojo.

/TMI

[thene]

Thank you, and thanks for the link. That site looks interesting & useful - not often you see the whole situation addressed in plain English like that.

I had a similar problem before I moved - working a minimum-wage job for most of the year and looking for something better, but it was in a high unemployment area and decent transit-accessible jobs were just not there.

My degree was mostly pointless; it helps me write sometimes, but that's about it. I really wish I'd worked for a few years before school; if I had, I would have studied something I actually wanted to work with. :/