Sunday Open Thread

[lannamichaels]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Sunday Open Thread! This is a weekly place for open discussion about how things are going right now.

And if you don't have anything going on right now you'd care to talk about, talk about whatever you'd like!

Comments

[rymenhild]

How are you doing?

I'm starting to get discouraged. Two rejections came in this week and I've heard that several more jobs I applied to have interviewed people who weren't me. I sent out two apps this week and there are two more I should be sending today, but it feels like sending letters out into the void. Bleh.

Thanks for having this as a space to vent.

[lannamichaels]

I'm so sorry. :(

Me, I just spent this morning with tech support to get my internet connection working again. And I'm now diverting-my-nervous-energy by "okay, if I start looking intensely in this city, instead of half-assedly, I would like to live in [research places to live], so then I need to look at maps and such to find [places to work within easy commuting distance] and then apply for jobs there". I have just done the research places to live (last couple days), now to find places to work (we'll see how well this goes).

I have some "catch all" job alerts, but they only give you at most 20 job alerts per day, so if there are 40, you don't see them, and you see a lot of repetition as jobs get picked up by other aggregators, so in order not to miss ones at places I want to work, I try to set up job alerts at those places.

EXCEPT WHEN THEY WON'T DO JOB ALERTS. Which an annoying number won't do.

I basically need to get an RSS reader just to do RSS of the places that have RSS, but no job alerts, and there's some sites that don't even have that. It's so fucking frustrating. I want to work for you! Let me see when you post new jobs!