Hi Eye of the Tiger.
Thanks for the reading and advice.
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| Although you are obviously very concerned that you are not going to get a suitable job sooner rather than much later, please accept my sincere congratulations for graduating and for getting this far as I do know from personal experience the considerable sacrifices which were involved in you achieving this important milestone. If you were anything like intense as I was about your studies, then you probably did not have a very active social life and therefore it should not be a surprise that relationships often took a much lower priority in the general scheme of things. I feel that you getting a job now would also greatly improve your financial situation, giving you more money over each week for going out to find that special woman in your life. |
Thanks for the congrats.
A masters degree is a fairly dig deal, IMO.
As for relationships being a lower priority, you have pretty accurately described the first three years of my undergraduate degree.
This was part due to intensity (as I can be intense at times), and part to due my introverted nature. However I did lighten-up significantly for my fourth year, and this continued throughout my masters. Those years you would never know I was them same person.
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| The focus card that immediately came up in your reading was the Eight of Cups. It tells me that you are considering quite a large variety of different positions in your field of interest, but you feel that none of them is going to be any where near as suitable as it first appeared to be on the surface. Your ability to make an accurate judgement is temporarily paralysed, not so much because you do not have enough information to decide, but rather it is because you have too much (and most of the information you have conflicts with what your instincts are telling you). |
I'm pretty much focusing on two areas with my search. However, I am contacting and applying to a large variety of companies.
It certainly is information overload.
Sometimes I forget who is who and does what specifically... these prospective employers all blur into one on some days.
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Most people applying for jobs seriously limit themselves by making their focus too narrow and only being willing to apply for a job if it is 100% right for them, but your problem seems with due respect to be the complete opposite of the normal situation. I feel that you will need professional guidance from a career advisor in your local area who has a much better knowledge of the relative availability of the type of job you are looking for near where you live. You need to get some extra assistance in discovering a better balance between having your job focus wide enough to not limit yourself, but narrow enough not to confuse yourself by applying for jobs which do not match your personal qualifications and skills (and at which you would be very likely to persevere with for very long).
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Thankfully I realize that nobody gets their ideal job straight out of university. At least I'm realistic.
At this point, all I would like is something related to my field of study that:
a) Gets my foot in the door
b) Gets me experience outside academia
c) Gets me money and independence
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| I am not willing to make any predictions concerning whether you will find the best type of job for you over the next six months or so, as basically what does or does not happen will largely be up to you and your career guidance officer to discuss. Without knowing the other applicants for the jobs for which you have already applied, it is also difficult to say whether you will get an interview, let alone whether you will be the successful applicant. |
Some of these jobs I have applied to through formal channels (ie- creating profiles, applying one). From what I gather this method is pretty ineffective depite being required by many. Others I have applied to by researching companies and talking to people with overlapping areas of interest.
At present I'm not worried about the
best type of work per se. That will eventually coe with experience, I reckon. Once I have gained a reputation and years of experience, then I can possibly afford to pick and choose.
Presently, I'm more worried about finding
something,
anything somewhat related that would justify six years of university.
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Be kinder to yourself and do not view your present circumstances as being necessarily such a crisis. When people believe that a situation is critical they can often become desperate and do things which they will later come to regret. I know that your finances are not the best at the moment, but please do not rush into anything until you can calm down a little and once again think objectively, without allowing your emotions to get the best of you.
Kindest regards,
eye_of_tiger |
That's one thing I have been told several times throughout my life- and you pretty much hit it. I do tend to be too hard on myself, since I tend to have extravagant and sometimes unrealistic expectations of myself.
The fact that I an unable to find a suitable job sooner tends to make me think that I will never find a suitable job, and will be stuck woking McJobs.
I personnaly define this situation as a failure because in my mind, someone with this education
should be making themself useful.
And because I'm not making myself useful, I am inclined to be too hard on myself. And thus the cycle continues, unfortunately...
As much as this is and
should be viewed as a learning experience for me, I am still inclined to label it as a failure, until the final objective is finally achieved.
How would one go about thinking more objectively about a situation without allowing their emotions to interfere?
Once again, thanks kindly for your assistance.
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