Now that I’m really coming into my own as a person likely destined to never not ever procure actual employment of the grownup, stable, benefits -included variety, I’m dutifully exploring the wideworld of options within pay rates ranging from zero to a lil bit. Still, despite my openness to the continuation of my personal, lifelong…
Tag: unemployment
Recalibrating mood is much like choosing to be merciful.
Since my sadfest yesterday, I realized that I could spy a bit on some of my job applications, and so learned that they are still in review. Though January, the prime time for academic interviews, careens to a close, I shall be honest in acknowledging that it isn’t yet official that I haven’t been selected…
Disappointment is a low energy response to thwarted hopes.
So far as courting positivity and welcoming wisdom as regards a lifetime of poverty line, I must say that I am feeling a bit over it today. While I do believe I have safely left behind temptations to enter into the abysmal abyss of self-loathing, it is a blue thing to repeatedly monitor and vigilantly…
Casting
As is congruent with my somewhat involuntary, ongoing hobby of writing a perhaps endless stream of cover letters from a place of cheerful detachment, I finished up another one today! This university position is particularly appealing in its adherence to the liberal arts tradition as a bastion of positive social change, and so inspired a…
Demoralized
I called in to the fed loan people to AGAIN request forbearance on my student loans. As an adjunct instructor, the likelihood of an ongoing lack of a paycheck is unavoidable, as this summer examples. No classes offered for me to teach, no income, no repayment. My borrowed amount is now doubled in terms of…