Ninety-four days until I graduate. Like most things I look forward to, each day seems longer than the last. Jason asked me last night when I'm going to start looking for a job and the reality of the future hit me like a ton of bricks. It may seem like a long time but ninety days is only three months. THREE MONTHS. It's hard to think that something that seemed so far away just a few years ago is here on my doorstep. I will start looking for a job in April. I have to find something in/around Long Beach: I must. I want to move away from here, away from this place, and I have already committed myself to it by telling everyone we know that I'll be moving this summer. There's no excuse now; I have to do it.
I've already started working on my resume so I can apply for jobs at colleges in Southern California. I've been looking at one district in particular, the Los Angeles Community College District. I'm not hoping for anything grand--just a clerical position, or even an administrative assistant, to get my foot in the door. I can move around from there to something a little more desirable. If they had some kind of library position open....well that would just about make my LIFE, but I'm not going to press my luck.
I also wouldn't mind working with students. It's not that I don't enjoy working with students, it's just I don't want to do it the rest of my life. Not teaching.
I'll be putting in for jobs just about everywhere though. Like I said, I really want to move so if I have to suck it up and work somewhere awful (i.e. retail) then so be it. I hope I have more qualifications than that but I know the job market is saturated with people and I may not be the most "qualified" person out there. Fine. At this point it's more important to me to get myself down to LA and be able to maintain a reasonable lifestyle (y'know...rent/food) long enough so I can get my MLIS. I don't feel I'm asking for anything unachievable.
I am so glad this quarter is (almost) over. This last round of papers might just kill me. On a more positive note, one of the papers I thought was supposed to be 12 pages only had to be 7-10, but that's the one that is giving me the most trouble. At the moment I have 10 pages of...well, verbal vomit, and the damned thing is due tomorrow. I have a feeling that tonight will be an all-nighter but if I only pull one this quarter than I'll take it. I tend to have at least 2/quarter so that'll be an improvement.
That's all. I have to get ready for class...(sigh). With that I'll leave you with a poem that has really inspired me for the last few months:
"El Hombre" by William Carlos Williams
It's a strange courage
You give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
Toward which you lend no part.
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