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Category Archives: Jobless
Today I am sick at heart
It leaves me feeling I’m unemployable for much of anything, still less for anything that makes real use of my experience and education. Continue reading
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I must be apt
I made an A on the programmer’s aptitude test I took Monday, as I’d hoped, and will be allowed to interview for a systems analyst trainee position at the university. Continue reading
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Aptitude tests
There are mighty few places these days that you can find paid apprenticeship programs. Continue reading
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So much for that vain hope
I received a “Dear John” email from UT General Libraries about the support specialist position. Dammit, this was a job I wanted. Continue reading
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I’m getting frightened
My unemployment runs out at the end of this month. I still don’t have a job. I don’t even have the reasonable prospect of a job. Continue reading
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There are only 87 actual people
It became so common that in the family we called it the “Comanche syndrome.” Continue reading
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Same song, 469½ verse
It’s impossible to get a hiring manager’s attention. Continue reading
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Neither flesh nor fowl
I’m either over-qualified or under-qualified for everything, according to hiring managers and headhunters. Continue reading
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Apply, apply, apply
The job’s located dead downtown, which would be transcendently wonderful after three years of working in exile at various places around town. Continue reading
Guaranteed to bring ya down
The universal story I’m hearing is that nobody is hiring for anything at all, and run-of-the-mill support geeks are a dime a dozen. Continue reading