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I am starting to seriously wonder how anyone can be expected to line up a Real Job™ while they're still in school. See, I've been making some good attempts, but have had little-to-no success so far. And interestingly, the few places that have given any explanation as to why I haven't been hired/interviewed have cited the fact that my hours are "limited".
The hell?? I only have three more months of school! I could even cut down my schedule to 8 credits, if they wanted me to! That'd be *maybe* 10 hours a week that I'd have to spend in the classroom! And I'm already accustomed to working 25-30 hours/week with a full courseload (read: closer to 20 hours in the classroom, + homework), so it's not as though I couldn't handle it.
I didn't think it'd be such a huge problem that I have a whole three months of school left. I've heard about many kids starting their job hunt, maybe 6-9 *months* before graduating college, but how often does it actually succeed? How can anyone be expected to have a job immediately out of college, when nobody will hire you until *after* you graduate?
And of course, now I'll have to keep looking while classes are in session. FANTASTIC. I think we have a good idea of how successful that's going to be. :p
Somebody, please make sense out of this "job" thing for me. It's starting to drive me completely batshit.
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I am starting to seriously wonder how anyone can be expected to line up a Real Job™ while they're still in school. See, I've been making some good attempts, but have had little-to-no success so far. And interestingly, the few places that have given any explanation as to why I haven't been hired/interviewed have cited the fact that my hours are "limited".
The hell?? I only have three more months of school! I could even cut down my schedule to 8 credits, if they wanted me to! That'd be *maybe* 10 hours a week that I'd have to spend in the classroom! And I'm already accustomed to working 25-30 hours/week with a full courseload (read: closer to 20 hours in the classroom, + homework), so it's not as though I couldn't handle it.
I didn't think it'd be such a huge problem that I have a whole three months of school left. I've heard about many kids starting their job hunt, maybe 6-9 *months* before graduating college, but how often does it actually succeed? How can anyone be expected to have a job immediately out of college, when nobody will hire you until *after* you graduate?
And of course, now I'll have to keep looking while classes are in session. FANTASTIC. I think we have a good idea of how successful that's going to be. :p
Somebody, please make sense out of this "job" thing for me. It's starting to drive me completely batshit.
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