Applying for jobs is a stressful and almost painful process. You see, because I am dealing with two of our wonderful institutions that we all have grown to love: Education and Government. Because they are so intertwined they have made it the most impossible process to streamline any sort of way of finding a job, applying for a job, or getting a job.
Do you want to know what the salary will be like? Good luck finding it on their website.
Do you want to know if they are offering jobs? You might as well just check every single individual school district's website (and good luck navigating those!)
Do you want to submit your application? Oh, well everyone wants THEIR specific application filled out tediously online with tiny little forms or Word Documents that you have to erase blank spaces and fill out or PDFs that are not filloutable (Yes, I made up a word, I've got a degree in linguistics, I can do it.)
I am so tired of writing down the same exact things over and over and over again.
I'm also paranoid that I will not find a job at all. The massive amounts of layoffs for teachers that are going on and cutbacks in government budgets. I heard Marion County laid off 500 teachers and Duval county is cutting school days by 45 minutes and lowering the amount of credits that are required to graduate in order to cut elective classes. That's just two counties.
So, I have 19 applications out there in 11 states currently just floating around and hoping one will stick. Most are in California, Missouri, and South Carolina. I'm really hoping that I'll end up in a place I like. I know it will work out wherever I am and I can be used wherever I am...
Anyway, job hunt is stressful. And now I have to study for my Masters Comps for Monday and Tuesday. If I don't pass. No degree and all was for naught. woo. :
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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