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  • Friday, I finally got the testicular fortitude (as my boss would say) to have the conversation about my position, the lab, and the future. I had spent the week gathering whatever info I could about the new chairman in t…

  • I had one of those moments where Life, God, the Higher Power, or whatever seems to be in control other than me, looked down and said, "oh yeah, well deal with this then." Update to follow as soon as the Excedrin Migrane…

  • So I have employment, though it comes with a dilemma. Turns our there was a miscommunication with the extension. Our new chair needed to confer directly with the resident powers-that-be to decide how much he could affo…

  • I absolutely hate this job searching thing. I've been told by everyone that I should just try for things that I "know" I will get, to not take it personally, to put more things out there because it's a filter system. D…

  • Only 7 days until school starts and I would ask where my summer went, but I know where it went. I spent it all passing out heavy bond paper to people too narrow minded to look outside of general categories and look at m…

  • All I can say is Thank God for the beginning of a fiscal year! More resumes to go out! Still no nibbles for me and now the rumors that my husband's work is doing their round of cuts next week. Supposedly he's safe, …

  • I've gotten the tiniest little nibble of a job interest. I'll reel it in just for the interview practice, if nothing else. I'm starting to have doubts about myself again. I don't have time for that. Instead I am focu…

  • I just realized that I have seven weeks of this job left...and they are going to fly. No nibbles yet, except counting the mosquitos (the one on the palm of my hand sucks). I'm expanding my search criteria and sending o…

  • I'm trying to reassess here. I had a good, if not very good, interview last week. And I tried not to spend too much time obsessing about it (successfully. It may have had something to do with the massing mosquitos in …

  • Interview 1 for executive secretary went surprisingly well. I closed with "do you have any reservations about me as a candidate?". The answer was no and in fact I was considered a strong candidate. The pool is about 1…

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