It’s still stuffed up, but it’s not as painfully stuffed — either the wax is starting to soften and the swelling is going down, or I’m just getting used to the situation. Now instead of feeling like half my head is made of concrete, it feels a bit like it’s made of impacted, semi-dry oatmeal.
In other news, I still don’t have a job — though I admit the way I’ve been feeling I haven’t been very actively looking. I can see myself on a job interview with this ear thing: “Excuse me, could you speak up? I can’t hear you.” (Digs in ear.) Yeah, that will impress people. Anyway, I’ve updated my resume and applied through Careerbuilder for a few things. What I find frustrating is the way so many links to “jobs” are actually links to other sites where you have to set up an account and log in and post your resume and then you get a list of jobs, and then you try to apply and find you have to sign up and log in and post your resume… and let’s not even mention all the come-ons for “continuing education” like the “University” of Phoenix that you have to click through. No I DON’T want to sign up for your Pretend School so you can charge me lots of money for a fake degree in Marketing Management or whatever the hell it is. I’m thinking I’d be better off printing off a box of copies of my resume and going from door to door. Thanks, internet, for nothing. [/END GRUMBLE]
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October 8th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
University of Phoenix is accredited and produces Real Degrees (or at least as real as any degree in business or the like ever is).
I think you’re thinking of the large mass of other pseudo-colleges that aren’t and don’t.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
They’re real? Huh, it seems that they are. Still, it’s irritating having to physically click through their advert/application every damn time I log on to Careerbuilder, and I always have to remember to click the “no thanks” button to get rid of them.
If I wanted to go to college I’d just finish up my Bachelor’s at UCF, which is right down the street. More or less. But I’m moving next April at the latest so any further eddicatin’ will have to wait until I establish myself in my new state, and also get over my college burn-out. How far will a degree in Humanities get me anyway? I’ll have a nice diploma to hang on the wall…