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Rough beast.
This is me complaining. Move along.
There's a very particular kind of disappointment that comes from rereading a job description or an internship posting and suddenly realizing one's lack of qualifications.
I'm slowly beginning the process of searching for post-degree employment, or at least engagement. It's a very daunting task, mostly in narrowing down and filtering the sheer amounts of available data to something I can work with reasonably. Yet another reason I need to get the courage to turn on and set up my new computer: having a stable machine with my resume on it would make checking the networks and sending out e-mails on a regular basis that much easier. I've got plenty of places to look, and I've got more than enough hope to keep me going back to check over and over. I think I need to get to the point where I'm not so depressed with the prospects, but that'll take a while. It doesn't help I really don't want to look for internships at all, and that I don't know where I really want to live for the next undefined period of time.
Most of my searching's been in the Northeast, especially New York City, and sighing's a near-inevitable response when I see a position open anywhere north of San Jose. It's also making me resent the common false dichotomy of city and country - I don't see anything wrong with towns.
There's a very particular kind of disappointment that comes from rereading a job description or an internship posting and suddenly realizing one's lack of qualifications.
I'm slowly beginning the process of searching for post-degree employment, or at least engagement. It's a very daunting task, mostly in narrowing down and filtering the sheer amounts of available data to something I can work with reasonably. Yet another reason I need to get the courage to turn on and set up my new computer: having a stable machine with my resume on it would make checking the networks and sending out e-mails on a regular basis that much easier. I've got plenty of places to look, and I've got more than enough hope to keep me going back to check over and over. I think I need to get to the point where I'm not so depressed with the prospects, but that'll take a while. It doesn't help I really don't want to look for internships at all, and that I don't know where I really want to live for the next undefined period of time.
Most of my searching's been in the Northeast, especially New York City, and sighing's a near-inevitable response when I see a position open anywhere north of San Jose. It's also making me resent the common false dichotomy of city and country - I don't see anything wrong with towns.