well, I'm back. pretty permanently. All my international travels are over for a while. (though i do have my eyes set on london in july for my cousins birthday but who knows what will happen until then) So, I'm back in California, adjusting and settling. The annoying task of finding a job is upon me yet again. here's why i'm annoyed:
1. i had a great interview with an architecture firm before i went traveling for 5 weeks. THEY LOVED ME. and they wanted me to work for them. But, the position they were hiring for was a receptionist position. and they said they had some reservations about hiring me as a receptionist because they knew they'd train me and i'd soon be moving up to an architecture position and then they'd have to retrain someone new as the receptionist so they basically said " we have some projects we are hoping to get in the next few weeks, so lets see if we get those projects when you get back and we'll see if we can hire you because we need people at your level to do revit and etc" GREAT! i go, come back, and they are CUTTING THEIR STAFF 50% they say "youre at the top of our list especially because we dont have anyone at your level (entry level willing to do all the bitch work) but we just have to wait and see" EFF.
2. Cover Story is a little shabby chic interior design/home furnishings shop that opened in down own replacing the very same shop i worked at for two summers called Anteo. I wantered in one day and they guy offered me a temp holiday job doing retail. i figured, since it was in my town, and since it was related to architecture, i could potentially meet people and it would be a nice way to just make some money and i can still look for architecture jobs. they said for me to get in touch when i get back from my travels.
so, i get back and i'm feeling really like i want to try and find an architecture job so i'm not sure if i want to contact them. but i do just to keep on bases covered. and the guy writes back saying "can you come in this week?" i decide to wait to respond because i'm HOPEFUL that maybe one of the other jobs will pull through. to be continued...
3. then out of NO WHERE my next door neighbor makes an introduction to this guy glenn for a potential "insider sales" position working at some tech company. i have no idea what that even really means, i feared telesales but wasnt sure, i was interested because i did minor in business.... so i email glenn, glenn forwards me to amie. amie emails me saying she wants a resume, i fix up the resume and send it. i dont hear back for 4 days. i follow up saying i'm still interested. she says she'll call tomorrow for a phone interview. she calls and we have the interview and its a great interview, EXCEPT THAT ITS A TELESALES JOB. NO THANK YOU! I'D RATHER BE UNEMPLOYED FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE THAN DO TELESALES. so thats out of the picture.
4. THEN my dads friend says he works below this engineer that hes told so much about me and he really wants to meet me. and he says ok call me so i can introduce you two. so i call and he never responds. then i email saying, hey why dont you just give me his email and i'll contact him directly (since its taking you forever to properly introduce me) so i just GO into his office and i have to wait a trillion years until he can take me upstairs to meet tom the engineer. (please remember that i majored in architecture not engineering anyway) so i'm hopeful that tom might have a job. so we go in and he didnt. nope. no he did not. instead he gave me names of other architecture firms (that are all probably not hiring either). FABULOUS.
2. continued: so, the architecture firm is cutting back 50 %, i refuse to be a telesales person, tom the engineers has no jobs. so i respond to cover story and i say yes i can come in. and then he says for me to call. so i call and he says THEY DONT NEED HELP IN THE LOS GATOS STORE THEY NEED HELP IN THE FUCKING LOS ALTOS STORE! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!! MY ENTIRE MINIMUM WAGE PIECE OF SHIT "INCOME" IS GOING TO GO TO MY FUCKING COMMUTE! so i'm desperate, and i take it. and now i'm just a grumpy girl. and no matter how i try and look at it, i'm just not that excited.
so now, i'm just pissed. and i do find it ironic that i basically have to cold call architecture firms until i can find a decent career job.
