{"id":2491,"date":"2007-06-24T19:22:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T03:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2007\/06\/24\/job-hunt-fears\/"},"modified":"2007-06-24T19:22:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T03:22:27","slug":"job-hunt-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2007\/06\/24\/job-hunt-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Hunt Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

This entry was originally posted at Roaming Seattlite<\/a>. For more information see Uh, the other blog..<\/a><\/p>\n

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I fear the job hunt. <\/p>\n

I’m insanely underemployed at the moment, but its a stable job that I don’t mind with consistent pay with consistent hours. (e.g. its not Starbucks.)<\/p>\n

Last time I did the job hunt thing I remember spending an insane amount of time writing out cover letters, sending in resumes, fielding calls from recruiters, and going to interviews for nothing. <\/p>\n

The one job that I finally got and settled on I hated so much I left after two weeks. Then I went to Starbucks, something that I knew I’d be underemployed at, but I figured I could find my way to something else within the company. That was until I got fired.<\/p>\n

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I hate fruitless work. (or to be more specific work with a really low ratio of success.) I think the best example of this is from when I worked for Citigroup. Initially I was working on gas card accounts that were 4-6 months past due. I was working on predictive dialer, where the computer made all the telephone calls for us. In an average eight hour day I’d go through something like 500-600 telephone calls. From that I’d leave a whole bunch of messages, talk to a bunch of people who weren’t the account holder, talk to a few account holders who wouldn’t pay, and talk to between 2 and 8 card holders who paid. So overall its a really low ratio of success (just over 1%) but the mere fact that in a day I’d have success eight times was pretty good.<\/p>\n

I need success to drive me. <\/p>\n

I was listening to an episode of The Conversation on KUOW about "the most-praised generation"<\/a>, and I had to and still am taking a hard look at if I fall into that situation. I know I like to hear a a simple “thank you” at times from my supervisors, and I already need success, but do I require praise? I want to say no, but I am not willing to say one way or the other for myself.<\/p>\n

I’m having trouble psyching myself up to put in the effort given how fruitless my search was last time. That sheet of paper I just got from Northern Kentucky University doesn’t ease my mind one way or the other about the prospect.<\/p>\n

I know I need to do this, but convincing myself is another matter….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry was originally posted at Roaming Seattlite. For more information see Uh, the other blog.. I fear the job hunt. I’m insanely underemployed at the moment, but its a stable job that I don’t mind with consistent pay with consistent hours. (e.g. its not Starbucks.) Last time I did the job hunt thing I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}