Over-qualified for eating
Oct. 26th, 2011 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_losAn Eight-Year-Old's Dream Job: http://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/lab/2667823368.html
Spent all yesterday at a day-long job interview thing for a crummy 'zero-hour contract' HR job. Several stupid tasks and interviews. It was like a shitty, desperate, tragic X-Factor--well, more so--in which everyone there was qualified or over-qualified, and some of them hadn't worked for over a year. I got through to the final round and, today, got a follow-up rejection letter. Feel like the problem may have been that I was over-qualified (they sort of suggested this), and that other people were earning certificates and such in HR, whereas my CV clearly indicated this was not my eventual trajectory. Danny suggested I just start leaving qualifications off my CV to avoid this, as per today's Married to the Sea (http://www.marriedtothesea.com/102611/), but that seems dicey too, and just sad. A full day wasted, and the cost of getting there, for this measly little job I might have done in my sleep and barely even wanted, which I wasted time on and panted after in the most degrading fashion. *Eugh.*
Applied for a tutoring position with the people Tamara works for. And made four types of flavored pumpkin seeds: Original (butter and salt), Asian (sesame oil and dark soy glaze), Spicy (chili powder, cayenne, paprika) and Sweet (cinnamon, nutmeg, dark brown sugar and honey). Will take pictures. Would do things slightly different in future, but I like these as toppings on salads, compatible savory dishes, and deserts accordingly.
Sort of looking forward to Christmas: http://www.cathkidston.co.uk/images/assets/pdfs/Christmas%20Come%20Early.pdf
Hoping to make marzipan fruits from home-made marzipan as gifts for people who like marzipan, and also a christmas cake and a pudding this year.
Spent all yesterday at a day-long job interview thing for a crummy 'zero-hour contract' HR job. Several stupid tasks and interviews. It was like a shitty, desperate, tragic X-Factor--well, more so--in which everyone there was qualified or over-qualified, and some of them hadn't worked for over a year. I got through to the final round and, today, got a follow-up rejection letter. Feel like the problem may have been that I was over-qualified (they sort of suggested this), and that other people were earning certificates and such in HR, whereas my CV clearly indicated this was not my eventual trajectory. Danny suggested I just start leaving qualifications off my CV to avoid this, as per today's Married to the Sea (http://www.marriedtothesea.com/102611/), but that seems dicey too, and just sad. A full day wasted, and the cost of getting there, for this measly little job I might have done in my sleep and barely even wanted, which I wasted time on and panted after in the most degrading fashion. *Eugh.*
Applied for a tutoring position with the people Tamara works for. And made four types of flavored pumpkin seeds: Original (butter and salt), Asian (sesame oil and dark soy glaze), Spicy (chili powder, cayenne, paprika) and Sweet (cinnamon, nutmeg, dark brown sugar and honey). Will take pictures. Would do things slightly different in future, but I like these as toppings on salads, compatible savory dishes, and deserts accordingly.
Sort of looking forward to Christmas: http://www.cathkidston.co.uk/images/assets/pdfs/Christmas%20Come%20Early.pdf
Hoping to make marzipan fruits from home-made marzipan as gifts for people who like marzipan, and also a christmas cake and a pudding this year.
