Futility's Search

About my futile and irritating search for a job in a market that wants skilled employees, but is saturated with mediocre workers

Sunday early afternoon.

Hunting through on-line classifieds.  What a pointless waste of
time. I'm trying to plot my revenge against all the staffing agencies I
have applied to and never received a response from.  All the adds
I followed up on, emailing, and faxing or mailing my paperwork
to.  I spent fourteen dollars the other day to overnight a
resume/application packet to a prospective employer because over the
phone they said I sounded like a good match--what happened?  The
HR department was backing itself up.  They already had their
primary candidate, the were using me as comparison fodder.  That's
$14 less I have to apply to next months mortgage just because some one
who is ineffiecient at their own job can feel good about making the
right choice.

I'd better not go on in this vein.  If I continue I will only get
more pissed off.  Note to self: View the world through the eyes of
your neighbor.  Yeah, Bull shit.

Tomorrow I will wake up and begin the whole thing over again.  The
waiting for the phone calls that never come (I am expecting no less
than 3 this week at somepoint; good or bad I just don't want to be in
limbo any more).  The trolling websites.  The futile attempt
at networking from a far.

I must also prep for a class I am teaching on Wednesday.  Its a
pittance, and my students are there to learn and because they enjoy
what I have to teach and how I present it.  But two classes (I
taught on last Wednesday) a quarter is not going to get me
anywhere.  It hasn't even led to any other part-time work like in
the past.

Last time this year I had 3 or 4 events I was cooking for, and the
cooking classes, and I was looking at travelling to London for a job
interview.  A lot has changed.

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