Man is born free, and spends his life in an oak tree

[dchenes]

This is very like a Monday.

I found out that my replacement for this job comes in on the 18th, but they want me to stick around and train her. If I can stretch that to the end of that week, so much the better, particularly since this means I won't get paid for Columbus Day.

However, now that I know that, I know that I shouldn't plan anything permanent-job-search-related until the 24th or so, which just lost me at least one interview at Harvard.

And I've got an irresistible force vs. immovable object scheduling problem going on at this job.

And I discovered this morning that the light in my refrigerator has burned out. It wouldn't surprise me if there's water in the bulb or something, because I can hear water moving when the fridge is running.

As I said, very like a Monday. Can I crawl back up my oak tree and go to sleep yet?

[EDIT 4:05: I'm not as distraught over the Harvard thing as I was, because the temp agency I'm not working for at the moment wants to set up an interview with a place that would pay VERY well and wouldn't expect me in until 9:00. I can live with that.]

Comments

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

As a temp, exploit this. Tell the temp agency that your rate for that training period is now X/hr. Where X is higher than what you were getting. You have every right to set a new rate for them, if they're asking you to stay on for training!

[melopoeia.livejournal.com]

I dunno, if I was you I would have said screw them and taken the Harvard interview.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

When you are job hunting and have been told that you are not staying at your current job, you no longer own them any allegiance. Go schedule the Harvard interview. They will deal. Especially since they do want you to train the next person. Schedule as many job interviews as you like. Make them deal with it. Even if the temp agency doesn't like it. Tell them flatly that you will stop scheduling interviews at your own discretion when they find you a full time permanent placement and that until then, you are still going to look for a job. They won't like it. But they will get it and they will respect you for it.

Also, as I said in my own post today, consider seriously surfing every local university and posting a resume for any job that you look remotely qualified for. I just got the statistice for resumes received as versus actual hires and you do really have to spam them to actually get your shot at the jobs you want. 10 resumes a day, minimum. Just have a standard cover letter and resume sitting on the desktop and dump them into every job requisition that looks promising.

You can do it... I know you can. Let me know any time you need help or motivation.