Trying to find a job nowadays is crazy, its like sending out a thousand messages in a bottle and letting em loose out on the Pacific and hoping they are found. OK, so maybe not. But that's what it feels like. You toss your resume into the void of the internet and hope for the best. I have a LOT of resumes floating out there right now and waiting for the callbacks. This is where the "patience is a virtue" thing comes into play. Right now my biggest drive is to not spend another winter in Ohio...or any state touching it. If I have my way I would like to be on the western coast or another continent. I would be perfectly content with Australia, South America, even Canada I suppose as long as its not nearly as flat as Ohio. I want to be able to run hike jump climb and just be inspired by nature, not bored to death by it. In Ohio, its cold and colder then about the time the climate warms up the great black swamp mosquitoes start to come out full force. I have been across the country quite a bit and I think I can honestly say that the mosquitoes in my back yard are akin to the mosquitoes of Africa or any equatorial zone. Really I'm not too bothered by them anymore. I have built a tolerance to them. But of any of the places in north america that I have been, they are way worse. We have a certain breed of tiger looking mosquitoes that is about the size of a quarter. Its quite the shocker and you look down and see a blood engorged creature with a stinger the size of a large medical syringe stuck about an inch into your arm.
But back to the original point at hand. The job I am looking for is a national type job. Typically the only way to apply is to post an application online and hope someone is paying attention on the other end. It would be easy enough to walk around town with a handful of resumes or sit down with a phone in hand and call a slew of local businesses, but applying online is easy and hard at the same time. You can apply to soooo many jobs all from the comfort of your own home. But you have to play the numbers game and hope that one in one hundred gets picked out of the bunch.
I have a career services department at my disposal, which helps a little. a little. They supposedly have contacts and associations and are supposed to be able to provide additional support. They send me a posting, I reply with a application. They forward it to the company along with hundreds of other submissions from my school who all have nearly the same qualifications as I do, because they went to the same school. Don't get me wrong, I have some pretty great qualifications, but if an employer has to pick through 200 resumes that have even 50% of the same info on every one. Somebody is falling through the cracks. So a few weeks later we shall see who is gonna get a call back. You try to talk to the Career Services about a job that you applied to and all you hear back is that don't have any information, its out of there hands. My thought is that they should probably be making those contacts. I have pushed through so much paperwork and investigated soo many companies over the last few months. I should be in career services. I'm like a detective tracking down names and numbers of the elusive HR. Whatever, I sit and wait and look. I just want out of Ohio before winter hits....
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