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Posted on 06/01/2005 7:12:04 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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All we have to decide is what to do with the offer that is given us.
Wooh-oo! I think I cut about three minutes off the last time I biked to work. It won't be as horribly hot so maye I can bike home this afternoon.
Take it from me, don't be a do-badder.
Steve took the day off from work. He still went to his office though and he's working on the paper. 2nd Draft goes in this afternoon.
That leaves just one more draft, then he defends it before the committee then he's done.
We're still looking at him being done some time in August.
Good for him!
Don't worry too very much about the defense. Once his draft is accepted, his advisor has a vested interest in him passing the oral defense. It's pretty rare for someone to fail that. I mean, it's not something he can blow off, but you're really, really almost done.
It's the third draft that worries me...he might have to tweek it and tweek it and tweek it!
I'm hoping not, but too much tweeking is gonna get on my nerves! LOL
We'll see. I don't know too much about it all and he seems pretty confident...
At this point, him getting another job is secondary...I just want him to come home. He mentioned going for his doctorate last night and I said "Fine...but not till after the boys have left home."
Hah! You tell him...
It'll be over soon. And then things will get better.
Is it four o'clock yet?
At least we got paid today.
I have to make it another week, almost...
Pay? Don't talk to me about pay.
*sigh*
Mebbe soon.
Hope so. I think it's been long enough fercryinoutloud.
People don't want experience, though.
'Cept maybe this last job I applied for.
I dunno. All the administrative assistant type jobs turned me down, so I can't just move down. I still haven't applied for clerk type jobs...dunno if I should wait until I hear back from this one last job, or if I should assume I'm not gonna get it and start trying for bookstores or such like.
No luck on the temp front, huh? At least with a temp job you can quit without ruffling feathers and burning bridges. People who hire temps should expect (unless they're complete idiots) that you're going to bolt as soon as something permanent comes around.
Last interview I went on, they basically wanted a babysitter for the college grads who weren't up to snuff.
The only temp places I've found haven't had much in the way of openings. Maybe I'm not looking for them in the right places, I dunno.
No harm in waiting until you hear you make the final cut, right?
I guess not...but that could be two weeks.
Just as an example...one of the places I've been watching right now is looking for furniture installers and med techs...wouldn't really be capable of either.
I've put my name in the pool at a few, but it sounds like tech jobs are all but impossible to get here.
I suppose worse case scenario is that I get a six dollar an hour job, or a couple of them...and then in a year I move somewhere with better employment options, and hope that my year of being out of the field isn't career suicide.
I'm having a hard time staying optimistic.
Heh...or I could do that...
Mine?
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