spilt milk
Jul. 18th, 2002 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serenissima[reposted from DiaryLand]
My first day of work. The temp agency that I visited Monday set me up with a one-day receptionist stint at a real estate office. I didn't do badly, I think, for someone who's never been a receptionist before. I could stand to do that for a few months.
The guy-in-charge at the tiny company in Texas still hasn't called me back with the hard details about the work-from-home trial run he suggested. I am beginning to think he doesn't want me but doesn't want to come right out and say it. That would be too bad: I think I'd like the job, and it would be nice to be around my friends for a little longer. The disadvantages, of course, would be the location far from both home and Chris, and paying rent. It sounded like a tech support / admin position: I'd be watching over and maintaining the servers, writing help files, and directing customers as to where to find the answers to their questions. Things I haven't done before but could probably learn easily.
I'm a little frustrated by my situation. I spent more than a hundred thousand dollars of my parents' money to get my degree, and now I can't find a job that makes use of it. I'm faced with either office work and retail jobs for which I'm overqualified or tech positions that require experience and skills I don't have. But I remind myself that thousands of other recent college grads are in the same situation, and it's up to me to improve my lot. If only I had graduated two years ago, I have thought probably dozens of times this year, if only I could do college over again, I'd be better off. Probably. But there's no fixing that now. And one can't be sure, either, what would have happened.
My first day of work. The temp agency that I visited Monday set me up with a one-day receptionist stint at a real estate office. I didn't do badly, I think, for someone who's never been a receptionist before. I could stand to do that for a few months.
The guy-in-charge at the tiny company in Texas still hasn't called me back with the hard details about the work-from-home trial run he suggested. I am beginning to think he doesn't want me but doesn't want to come right out and say it. That would be too bad: I think I'd like the job, and it would be nice to be around my friends for a little longer. The disadvantages, of course, would be the location far from both home and Chris, and paying rent. It sounded like a tech support / admin position: I'd be watching over and maintaining the servers, writing help files, and directing customers as to where to find the answers to their questions. Things I haven't done before but could probably learn easily.
I'm a little frustrated by my situation. I spent more than a hundred thousand dollars of my parents' money to get my degree, and now I can't find a job that makes use of it. I'm faced with either office work and retail jobs for which I'm overqualified or tech positions that require experience and skills I don't have. But I remind myself that thousands of other recent college grads are in the same situation, and it's up to me to improve my lot. If only I had graduated two years ago, I have thought probably dozens of times this year, if only I could do college over again, I'd be better off. Probably. But there's no fixing that now. And one can't be sure, either, what would have happened.