I hate sitting around with nothing to do. I am currently waiting for the fall semester to start especially since my classes have the potential to be stellar. Now that all of my stuff is all moved into my new apartment, I find myself trying to fill up my days with useful toils. All of the items on my list of things to accomplish before the start of the upcoming semester have been systematically crossed off that list. I submitted my thesis proposal and I cannot begin to work on it until I know if it will be approved.
It has crossed my mind on many occasions to find a job of some sort in order to make myself feel useful. My mother has explained to me that being a full-time student is work and that it is okay to just be employed with that occupation. I just like having something to do; some way of keeping busy and contributing to something. There is also the deep fear implanted inside that the great money well that is financial aid will dry up at some point probably when I'm dying of thirst and trying to lower the bucket into the barren well in the vain attempt to dredge even a measly drop of its former contents. I have applied for several positions and internships but to no avail. I also am concerned with taking a job outside my chosen career field because I worry about my ability to break free from that position and transfer into the kind of publishing work, which truly interests me. That is not to say, however that I have simply abandoned my job search. I recently applied for a job as an editorial assistant at a book-publishing firm.
My interview skills concern me because I feel like there is something about my professional self with does not come across correctly through the interview process. I plan to check out the career services office on my campus to see if I can be assisted with this pressing issue. I am looking forward to the next few weeks now that I am in my new place and about to begin the exact classes I came to graduate school for. I just have to get through this temporary phase of boredom.