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[ultranos]

1. I just came back from helping take a friend of mine on a bar crawl. The white ceiling is incredibly interesting right now. (Actually, I'm just sleepy. Although I still apologize for any typos and incoherency.)

2. I've somewhat made it my goal to apply to at least 4-5 different positions every (week)day this week. I met that goal, but damn does this suck a lot. Every place keeps wanting "2+ years experience", which, well, thanks for listing the job as "entry level". Dammit. It's really annoying, because I know, intellectually at least, that companies in the industries I'm looking at will be wanting to hire soon, since a lot of people are retiring (it's just that time in the cycle). But if they keep wanting "experienced" people, I'm screwed. I swear, if I don't find something I'm truly happy with in a year, I'm going to try to run back to academia, consequences be damned.

3. I have an idea/plot for 36_stratagems! It is utter crack. It is comedy. I don't think I actually care.

4. I'm playing with the idea of a (collaborative) food blog. Yeah, I need to get hired soon.

5. I'm considering teaching myself Python to stave off the boredom. Relatedly, the project I should use to teach myself Python should possibly not be a script to do half of sg1debrief on it's own.

6. Poing.

7. I could start writing homebrew tabletop systems again. And LARPs. I suppose that might be a worthwhile use of my time. In case you haven't noticed, I've survived approximately 1 week without some kind of pressing...thing...due in my near future. I don't actually know if I can survive 2. Apparently, I suck at vacations.

Comments

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

[rivenwanderer.livejournal.com]

In CS at least, I've applied to jobs with a "1-2 year experience" prereq and been fine... are the industry jobs you're looking at more serious about their prereqs?

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Dunno, actually. It certainly wouldn't surprise me, since I'm looking at a lot of defense contractors and the like.

[rivenwanderer.livejournal.com]

Well, as far as I can tell... a lot of the time, "1-2 years experience" is really just a shorthand for "not completely froshly" (some other colleges produce grads who are still very very froshly! and defroshing is expected to happen over the course of their first job). Doesn't help where a webform is the only thing making the call for whether you're brought in for an interview, but in places where humans make that call, you may still have a pretty good shot.

[kihou.livejournal.com]

In general, my experience is that job requirements are often more guidelines, and I've gotten interviews for jobs where I don't quite meet the requirements multiple times. I think the MIT name can make people more likely to be interested in someone with marginal experience ^_^. Also, at least some places will treat things you did in the thesis/TA realm as experience if it's on your resume.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

1. Aren't white ceilings nice?

2. I don't have much experience applying for work, but my understanding lies along what the others said. *nods encouragingly*

3. Hee! and awesome!