As somebody on the margins of academia, I’ve often looked at the trades with envy. From over here, it just seems so straightforward. You acquire a practical skill, people pay you to perform the practical skill. Whereas academia is full of interpersonal politics, hoop jumping, language games, and nepotism.
I eventually realized that I’m probably just envying the neighbor’s lawn a bit, and things are hard all over.
I should probably get out of here before AI takes my job, though.
at 3:00 this afternoon i finished my last job in washougal, washington. i was excited to get off early. meanwhile, at least 2000 gal. of water were sitting under a building somewhere in clackamas county, oregon, just waiting to be discovered on this 90 degree day to spite me personally.
wow coooool. this is something I’ve been thinking abt doing for a long time but after a decade of slumming it in kitchens it feels nearly impossible that they’d wanna put an adorable dirtbag like me in front of anyone. I’m poking the nest abt it at my job rn but it will be a while before they bite
Totally exhausted today, and next week I agreed to work double. Working Friday-Monday with a double Saturday. Pray for me cause it’s gonna be unlike anything I’ve done before. I am gonna get buff as hell before my trip to Washington for 3 weeks in july
lol one of our new event producers this weekend is so classist that he thought I was a “sketchy homeless person” when I showed up this morning and alerted security. I’m not dressed especially shabby or anything, it’s just because I rode a bicycle to work.
one time, when i got to work, i found that i had left a gallon of milk in my car from grocery shopping earlier that day, so i brought it into the church i was cleaning to keep in the fridge until i was leaving. the next day i get a call from my boss about how i was caught on video leaving with a gallon of milk, and, so they said, they were missing a gallon of milk.
i love how they totally fabricated a missing gallon of milk.
i just told them to look at their security cameras when i got there, i came in with a gallon of milk.
makes me sick.
Festival I worked this weekend was sick. I don’t remember the last time I worked this hard
Depending on the kind of place you work, they might want an adorable dirtbag!
Hope it works out for you.
This whole bartending thing’s pretty easy, I think.
Though I think it will be a minute before I get a hang of making more complex cocktails.
All I have to do is dress really cute every shift so people don’t get mad at me for taking a long time.
what should i spend my learning & development budget on
Me
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Class I captive wildlife permit
^ they’re the same answer, folks
I’m mad, bad, and dangerous to know
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, right?
I feel like I got one of the best jobs on the entire west coast. My job at the Santa Monica pier I’ve been getting a lot more shifts at this year.
Thing is. My GF lives in central Washington. She just got a new apartment. I miss her. I dream of being with her more. I could just drive my van up there and move in. She’d be stoked if I did that.
But then I’d have to find different work.
My current job has no assholes. My current job has no problems. I love it. It pays great, and I’m stoked to go. Like I love it. It gives me dopamine. I feel great and I’m enthusiastic about it.
I’m looking at non profits in Yakima, wa. Like maybe get my foot in the door volunteering and serving homeless people which could lead to some real work.
But mainly the economy of Yakima is agricultural. Lots of farms, vineyards, meat and dairy type stuff.
I feel I could make something work there, but I’d be leaving behind something great that I waited 4 whole years to get.
Maybe I should wait 4 years to see if the relationship is worth it. I have long term concerns, but I wanna ride this relationship out and have a good time and make the most of what we have together. I’m in love…
Flights are usually cheap enough, around $100. Usually at the pier I get at least one shift per week, so I’m always passing up work when I go. Also the act of leaving behind my van and getting to the airport is not fun or easy.
So they can use software to scan for certain key words, soft and hard skills, and if you hit the target words the role is looking for, then they read your resume. A friends wife runs an HR department and was told to bring that software in for job applicants. She was against it but didn’t have a choice.
Best way to beat it is to copy whatever you put in your resume but look at the role, and find some of the skillset they’re looking for and add them somewhere in your responsibilities.
That was mostly rhetorical, but that is useful information!
I will continue to complain about it and no one can stop me.
This is for a bartending gig at a performing arts center and I just haaaate stuff like this.
I did it anyway though.
You’re not alone on complaining about it, even with your rhetorical question I was venting a bit too! I try to apply for a job every few months, just to keep myself aware of the market - then did a big push and constantly got nothing back, which is why I investigated and found out more.
Good luck with your application!!
Applying for jobs has always been terrible but it does somehow manage to consistently get worse.
I had an interview a few weeks ago for a job I didn’t really want, but it’s the first I’ve heard back from since I got my current job in June, so I figured I’d go just for practice. Interview went well, and I got an offer the next day. The wage was very low, even considering it’s an entry-level position, so I e-mailed back with some more Q’s and to negotiate a higher wage. Never heard back. The HR person did mention during the interview that she was going on vacation soon, but why would you hold all your interviews and then start the hiring process one day before your only HR person goes on vacation? Anyway I don’t really care because my current job is A-OK but the whole thing does feel a little silly.
Just gotta keep applying until I get something good. The nice thing about my current position being casual is that it means I can keep it as a backup in case I get a new job and it totally sucks. That really takes a lot of pressure off of the whole thing.
Today was first in-person day of job. It’s academic, so it’s orientation basically all week and then class/syllabus prep for next week.
I like the people a lot. Good-humored, good fit, lots of variety in terms of backgrounds and habits. It’s just funny how much I have to navigate in terms of on-boarding. Someone asks me for a certain jargony thing. Uh, what’s that? Oh, I have to go to IT to figure that out. But IT says I have to go to my department - who asked for that info in the first place - to ask for a form to be filed with this other department. My department admin basically says, “??? No other new hire has needed that, but okay.” I’ve had versions of this happen three times now. So I’ve been navigating the large institutional gaps between
I know it’ll get worked out. For now, If I had to write for research this week, I’d be writing an autoethnography about this.
