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More Job Search Blues
Feb. 8th, 2005 11:53 pmIt just brings me down when I'm looking for jobs online, and all I see are requirements and requests for skills I don't have, or can't fake (and they won't teach you).
It really makes me wonder about the wrong turns I may have made in college. Of course, I couldn't imagine that I would have actually gone an majored in business, or accounting or comp sci or something, but man, it would have meant a marketable skill, rather than the idea that I'm supposed to be able to write my way our of a paper bag or something.
Journalists are one of those that Douglas Adams would have put on the spaceship with the hairdressers and the telephone receiver cleaners.
So, skills for me are just trying to heard my little folks from one day to the next, trying to keep the micromanaging idiocy of my superiors from crushing the life out of my associates, and by association, me, and to get manage and get through any project that comes my way. It's common sense stuff, really, and it doesn't easily translate to a resume.
Of course, I did switch from Theater arts to Journalism, for what that's worth. Still, most other things called for math, ick.
My current job was remarkable for the training involved with it, but then again, it was entry level when I started. I guess there is no such thing as training people for a mid-level job...you were supposed to pick up something by now.
My job has allowed me to get somewhere, that's why I can't just give up on it and just jump into something entry level again and start over, but it doesn't seem like I've set myself up as well for the future as I would have liked.
Still...there's got to be something, right?
It really makes me wonder about the wrong turns I may have made in college. Of course, I couldn't imagine that I would have actually gone an majored in business, or accounting or comp sci or something, but man, it would have meant a marketable skill, rather than the idea that I'm supposed to be able to write my way our of a paper bag or something.
Journalists are one of those that Douglas Adams would have put on the spaceship with the hairdressers and the telephone receiver cleaners.
So, skills for me are just trying to heard my little folks from one day to the next, trying to keep the micromanaging idiocy of my superiors from crushing the life out of my associates, and by association, me, and to get manage and get through any project that comes my way. It's common sense stuff, really, and it doesn't easily translate to a resume.
Of course, I did switch from Theater arts to Journalism, for what that's worth. Still, most other things called for math, ick.
My current job was remarkable for the training involved with it, but then again, it was entry level when I started. I guess there is no such thing as training people for a mid-level job...you were supposed to pick up something by now.
My job has allowed me to get somewhere, that's why I can't just give up on it and just jump into something entry level again and start over, but it doesn't seem like I've set myself up as well for the future as I would have liked.
Still...there's got to be something, right?
