It's about time

Would you believe it, 50 resume postings in and I get a job offer? McGraw-Hill called me up on my cell phone, which I conveniently left at home, for the position of Traffic Coordinator within McGraw-Hill Construction, a far cry from their books or stock rating (Standard & Poors) business. Now, unfortunately I overlooked a critical detail about this job, that is, that it's part-time, 16 hours a week. I'm pretty sure it won't be a high enough salary to justify leaving a full-benefits 40 hour a week job. Overlooking details is going to cost me my job, even if it's a job I never had in the first place.

It might be worthwhile to go in guerrilla and find out what kind of skills I would need to become a research analyst or an editor. While staffers loathe the noncommitted job searcher, they should take a step back and realize that it's a natural response to a job market in flux. Both of my parents will swear away the notion that they wanted the jobs they had, in the sense of wanting to do that activity for a living. Instead, they took what they could find and what they could make money doing. And make money they did. They instilled a value in me which says that if I can't find something in the next two years, I'm applying to the MTA.