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Job search...
I've decided that I need to get serious about a part-time job search. I need to make more money, and I can't rely on occasional overtime at my full-time job. I haven't taught since last fall, and there's nothing teaching-wise on the potential horizon until next fall, so I think I need to stop all this head-in-the-sandism and see if I can find something.
I did a bostonworks search tonight, but all the listings are for either very physical jobs (like warehouse worker, Fed-Ex truck helper, messenger, retail) or at the complete wrong time of the day (after school, midday, etc.). Ideally I'd like an evening job with one weekend day. You'd think that wouldn't be so hard! I wonder if I'll have to do the call center route again. Are there call centers in this country anymore?
The other option is to switch to either nights or part-time nights at my current job and find a new day job. That's a lot scarier concept. In what? Where? For whom? Ugh.
I think tomorrow I will head to the alma mater and check out their pre-professional job listings (there's usually part-time and temp stuff there). They're very low-tech about the pre-pro stuff: the listings are printed out in binders outside of the student lounge. If I could get a few pre-pro things under my belt, perhaps then I could apply for the pro jobs and get an interview or two!
(My problem: when I graduated from library school at the end of 1999, I had two different job offers in addition to my part-time lecturing gig. #1 was from my current company, working in a design department doing a variety of desktop publishing kind of things at night (teaching was in the morning). #2 was for a small local college as a reference and IT librarian. The design department job paid a few thousand more per year and had more employees and seemed more fun and flexible (plus P worked there) so, alas, I chose it instead of the library job. And now I have no library experience, plus I've basically priced myself out of entry-level library jobs...Oh, for a time machine...)
Anyone have any good ideas for part-time jobs? Tell me what to do with my life, please? Clearly I'm not capable of telling myself.
I did a bostonworks search tonight, but all the listings are for either very physical jobs (like warehouse worker, Fed-Ex truck helper, messenger, retail) or at the complete wrong time of the day (after school, midday, etc.). Ideally I'd like an evening job with one weekend day. You'd think that wouldn't be so hard! I wonder if I'll have to do the call center route again. Are there call centers in this country anymore?
The other option is to switch to either nights or part-time nights at my current job and find a new day job. That's a lot scarier concept. In what? Where? For whom? Ugh.
I think tomorrow I will head to the alma mater and check out their pre-professional job listings (there's usually part-time and temp stuff there). They're very low-tech about the pre-pro stuff: the listings are printed out in binders outside of the student lounge. If I could get a few pre-pro things under my belt, perhaps then I could apply for the pro jobs and get an interview or two!
(My problem: when I graduated from library school at the end of 1999, I had two different job offers in addition to my part-time lecturing gig. #1 was from my current company, working in a design department doing a variety of desktop publishing kind of things at night (teaching was in the morning). #2 was for a small local college as a reference and IT librarian. The design department job paid a few thousand more per year and had more employees and seemed more fun and flexible (plus P worked there) so, alas, I chose it instead of the library job. And now I have no library experience, plus I've basically priced myself out of entry-level library jobs...Oh, for a time machine...)
Anyone have any good ideas for part-time jobs? Tell me what to do with my life, please? Clearly I'm not capable of telling myself.