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Holiday Rant
December 24, 2006 by rebecca nIt’s been a good month since I’ve been here, so here’s an update. I’m still with USPS until the 31st (so I can get my 90 days in) and then I’m done come the new year. I’ve appiled to Columbia College Chicago and Emerson College and things look on the up and up on that end. If I want to, I can start back to another temporay job that I had in February that pays $10.10/hour, and I will really start saving money then. It doesn’t feel like Christmas to me, probably because I’ve been working nonstop at my two jobs. Looking for a full-time job has been put on the back burner for now. After 180 days with the USPS, I can take a test and become a career employee. There’s nothing wrong with working for the USPS- they have great benefits, and with that kind of pay, if I go back to school, I can pay for it. CCC just sent me an application for a Presidential Scholarship basing it on my high school credits, not college. The funny thing is is that they need me to be full-time; I applied for part-time, so I don’t what will happen with that. With Emerson, I need to send off my $60 check and high school transcript. I really feel that with another diploma in a different degree will help me, especially if I move to cities like Chicago or Boston. If going to school again is not the answer, then what is? Somebody commented that he/she could give me advice if he/she knew what I wanted to do. What I want to do is get into publishing. Some of these posts I read sound like most want to get into publishing also. To be an editor some day is my dream, but right now, I would like to start with an entry-level job with the likes of an editorial assistant. I took some journalism courses such as Editing and Magazine Writing & Editing to give me more experience with it. However, I feel having a degree in that field will help, hence my applying to CCC and Emerson. They both have degrees specializing in publishing and I want to succeed in this and get into the field of my choice. Can I do that with the degree I already have? Yeah, but I’m stuck right now and can’t move forward. Any suggestions? My work experience is not enough for some places, and when I apply, I don’t hear back from anybody. I was in contact with a woman at a company called Hollister in Boston, but that didn’t work out because she needed to know when I was moving to Boston in order to help me with employment. I will listen to any advice and take it into consideration.
Any advice would be good right now.
Happy Holidays to everybody. -
Nothing in General
November 22, 2006 by rebecca nShifting gears right now. I decided to try and go for another bachelor degree. Columbia College Chicago and Emerson College have publishing degrees, so I’m trying those two. I don’t know where my life is going right now. The job with the United States Postal Service ends Dec. 1 which doesn’t make sense since we’re Christmas casuals and they’re letting us go before Christmas. If I don’t get into any of those schools, all I’ll have left is my other job (which doesn’t pay much like USPS) and then I’ll feel like I’m stuck. It seems as though my future depends on if I get into one of those schools. This isn’t what I expected for myself when I was in college. I thought I would have my dream job by now and living happily, but now, I don’t see it. They’re calling my generation the “Boomerang Generation” because as soon as we graduate from college, we head right back home. I think it’s because we can’t find any employment in the field of our choice and staying at home with the parents insure security until they get tired of having the kids back home.
I feel lost and I have no sense of direction as to what to do now. -
If You Don’t Succeed…
October 26, 2006 by rebecca nI started searching other colleges after Lesley regretted to inform me that they couldn’t accept me into the program (this is to clarify for a certain someone). I found two and a possible other, but I’ll apply to two right now. Columbia College Chicago and UMass Amherst are the schools that I’ll try and see if I can get into their Creative Writing programs. It’s no big deal that I didn’t get into Lesley; I see that now. I still have the provisional acceptance at Rosemont, but if I don’t pass those two courses and get a B average, that’ll be money down the drain that could’ve gone to something important. So…I have to track down my professors and ask if they can write another recommendation for me, which will be hard since one is in England. Hopefully, they can do this and I can wait in agony and see whether I’m accepted or not.
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No Surprise There
October 23, 2006 by rebecca nI was really trying to get into Lesley and thought about how life would be up in Boston. Nevertheless, I received a letter today telling me that I wasn’t accepted. I tore up the letter and shrugged it off. There are other graduate programs out there that I can apply to; it’s just that my GPA isn’t so outstanding. I’ll try anyways and keep saving money towards something that’ll probably never happen.
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Nowhere and Everywhere
October 15, 2006 by rebecca nWell…I have been here in a while and yet, I missed it. I started working for the USPS on my birthday on October 2nd and have been there since. It pays $11.00/hour, but it’s not a career position. After awhile, I’ll be able to take two tests to see if I can be a career employee and they have good benefits. When I was a minor, I was able to use to benefits my mom had. It would be a great thing to be a postal employee and go to school at the same time. Hopefully, I’ll get in to a graduate school that I love (hint, hint, Lesley!). Anyways, things are going good at USPS and I’ll be there for only 6 months unless I pass those tests and become an official postal employee.
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Take What I Can Get
September 16, 2006 by rebecca nWell…since I didn’t hear back from the company about the interview Tuesday, something else has come my way. In May, I sent in my application to work for the United States Postal Service and come last week, I had my interview. Yesterday, I had a physical and now I have orientation that’s starts on my birthday. I didn’t think I would ever get this job since this is my second time trying. It pays more than the other job. It was a sit down job and USPS is standing. I needed a job where I have to sit down; bad for the feet. However, since I’ll be paid more, I can get the appropriate shoes for my job. I guess my luck is changing after all. Let’s just hope I can get through orientation and keep this job.
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I Got Stuck In a Moment, and I Can’t Get Out It
September 10, 2006 by rebecca nIt seems that lately I’ve been stuck in a rut and it’s a cycle that I just can’t get out of. I’m now writing again, which is awesome, but employment seeking and waiting to hear from Lesley is frustrating me. I feel tired and I have no idea why. All I do now is wake up and go to work and on my off days, I stay at home and do absolutely nothing. I want to get started on something new in my life and I hope this interview on Tuesday will give me that.
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Graduate School
August 07, 2006 by rebecca nI’m assuming that taking the GRE would be beneficial to me by taking it and seeing what kind of score I get. But here’s the rub–I don’t have $140 to take a test I know that I’ll flunk. That is the reason why I chose only graduate schools that don’t require the GRE. Granted, my GPA isn’t up to par (it’s a 2.8 because of major changes and some grades are horrible), but I hope my statement of purpose and recommendations are okay. As of right now, I applied to Rosemont College in Rosemont, Penn.(English and Publishing program) and Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. (Creative Writing program). There are other schools I want to try like Sarah Lawrence (which will never happen), University of Baltimore, University of Mass-Amherst, and a couple of other ones on the West Coast. Like I said before, I got in provisionally at Rosemont. I mailed back a form saying I would go there next summer to take two classes to see if I will be accepted fully. I’m waiting to hear from Lesley and I really, really hope that I get in Lesley because their program is excellent. Plus, I want to be near family. I’m originally from Boston and want to move back up there, but it’ll be hard, for sure. Anyways, I’m just waiting to hear from Lesley. It could be any day now. I really think that either school will be good for me. It’ll give me a chance to be on my own for the first time in my life.
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First Entry
August 04, 2006 by rebecca nWell, I graduated in December 2005 and I thought, like most graduates, that I would find an awesome full-time job right out of the gate. Wrong! I’m still looking for a full-time job that will fulfill my passion. When I tell people that my major was English, they naturally assume that I want to be a teacher. Yeah, I love kids, but not in a collective group where I have to fight to get their attention. I’ll break out in hives.
I really want to work in publishing and I sent resumes to publishing companies and also newspapers (I want to write, too), but I don’t have the experience that they’re looking for. I thought about graduate school in Penn. and I got in (on a provisional entrance), and I’ll probably go, but my ideal school is Lesley Un. in Cambridge, Mass. I thought about Emerson, too, but it’s too expensive and I’m not smart enough to get in anyways.
I’m a pessimist, so if something doesn’t go my way, I won’t feel so bad about, but if it does, I’m all a-flutter. Then again, I get these high hopes about certain things like finding a job that deals with my passion or going to the school of my choice and I obsess over it. When it doesn’t happen, my bubble is burst sharply with a dull needle so it’ll hurt more.
I know now I’m not the only one who feels hopeless in trying to find that right or right now job when I read the entries. It helps me a little to know that I’m not such a loser. It’s good that people are writing about the hardships of trying to enter into the professional world. Like most parents say to their children, “Welcome to Adulthood.”
And it sucks…hard.
