Re: Jobs I applied for:
Posted by pixie to catsister on 10/19/09

I feel your pain. Last year there were not many Christmas
season temp retail jobs because consumer spending was
downshopping. Not to be pessimistic, but is there reason to
believe the situation will be better this November and
December?


On 10/19/09, Catsister wrote:
> I have to apply for 5 jobs a week for Unemployment. Today I
> applied for: 2 short term maternity jobs, (one 90 minutes
> away, one closer), a sub list position 45 minutes away, a
> part-time job in a "therpeutic teaching" setting, my old
> pre-teaching job as a package inspector, a job as a
> customer service agent at a company that sells religious
> icons and vibrators (yes, that's right), and a job for a
> paper-maker trainee. Oh yeah, and earlier, a job for an
> adjunct position I'm not really qualified for and a job
> where you need only an AA and I have an MA.
>
> If I get a single interview from all these, I'll be
> shocked, even though I wrote impassioned cover letters
> about how I love religious icons and vibrators (OK, I
> didn't phrase it like that), how I loved my old job, and
> how much I've always wanted to learn to make paper. I think
> it may have to do with wood and pulp.
>
> This time last year I was a permanent teacher in a public
> school system making $50,000 a year with great benefits.
> Now I'm reduced to begging for jobs in the pulp factory.
>
> Oh, well, the Christmas department store jobs should open
> up soon.

Posts on this thread, including this one

• Jobs I applied for:, 10/19/09, by Catsister .
• Re: Jobs I applied for:, 10/19/09, by pixie to catsister.
• Re: Jobs I applied for:, 10/20/09, by Catsister.
• Re: Jobs I applied for:, 10/28/09, by Confused.
• Re: Jobs I applied for:, 11/03/09, by Catsister.