resume time

[threeplusfire]

Someone please employ me in a different job. My criteria are: a reasonable Monday through Friday schedule between 7am and 7pm, a marginally sustainable salary, health insurance, and not too much face time with the general public. Everything else is negotiable. I am smart, funny, and computer literate.

Seriously.

I'm having one of those so-upset-speaking-is-impossible moments.

Comments

[melebeth]

I wish I knew people in Texas. I would make them hire you.

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

(((HUGS)))

[kuoirad.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure exactly what fields/jobs you want to look around in, but there's always:

http://utdirect.utexas.edu/pnjobs/index.WBX

[frostwalrus.livejournal.com]

I have my resume up on Workaustin.com and I got a call today for a crappy sales job that they keep posting. They try to pass it off as anything but telemarketing gig. I was pretty pissed, they tried to make me think that I had email them, but when I got home, I realized they were just jerking me around.

[lemonchiffon.livejournal.com]

You should try UT and ACC! ACC is a great place to work; they pay well (for certain positions), have good benefits/good work environment. Also, I've heard that National Instruments is looking for recent (past few years or so) graduates that they can train into high level positions. I'm looking into this myself.

You should take a Mental Health Day (tm) this week. It would give you time to collect your thoughts, get your res together, put feelers out onto the job market. This has helped me in the past. And when I do go back to work the next day, I KNOW that I am on my way out of that place; steely resolve and all that. That kept me holding on at Flood. And clean your desk out to bare bones minimum, so the annoying coworker won't have as much to mess with. And then you can feel like you are even closer to quitting.

[cedarlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Have you considered library school?

[loverdenye.livejournal.com]

Have you considered teaching middle school or high school Language Arts?

Books?

[deatonjr.livejournal.com]

I don't know what your interests are but I gather you are really into books. I had considered libraries or publishing. However, I had also heard that college library systems are the elite of the elite, where people settle down for a career. There is publishing, and there is the book trade. I would reccomend going to a trade show or a professional event. The Texas Library Association has an annual event always in a different city. Their website says the next one is in San Antonio next April. There is the annual Texas Book Fair in Austin. Texas has its fair share of publishers, for not being New York City (where all the big ones are headquartered). There are university presses like UT, Texas A&M and several smaller ones. Many museums of notable size publish unique books and run a bookstore, and may be large enough to house their own internal library. I attended a convention for publisher's remainders in Chicago a couple years ago. One niche that interested me were many former booksellers and people in the publishing industry who had started their own middleman type businesses, buying and selling publisher's overstock to other booksellers.