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New Job & A Question About Commissions
7 years ago
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Hello FurAffinity,
First, the good(?) news! I have a job again. You may recall I left my last job more than a year ago, in April 2017. Since then I have been unemployed, save for a brief one-month contract job in March. In the interim I applied to more than 100 positions, resulting in maybe a dozen phone interviews and 3 (three) actual face-to-face interviews. Job hunting sucks. It doesn’t help that my networking abilities are nil. And that all the jobs I’m qualified for I don’t want, and all the jobs I want I’m not qualified for.
Starting Monday I will be working as an analyst, the DC-est of jobs. What will I be analyzing? I’m not entirely sure, and I couldn’t tell you anyway because it’s classified. Is it a job I actually want? Again, I don’t know, but as long as I won’t be answering phones all day it’s a step in the right direction. The pay’s good, though; more than I was expecting to get. I never really did find a satisfactory answer to the question ‘What do I want?’ and eventually I got complacent and kinda gave up on that.
I’m nervous. Fifteen months is a long time to be out of work. And I got this job after a single phone interview that was conducted when they called me unannounced one morning before I’d even had breakfast, and at the time I was under the impression the position paid a lot less than the offer they ended up sending me; consequentially, it was not a very good interview. Although I don’t know who else they talked to, and I do at least have some good references.
On the upside, I did win the DC commute lottery again. They’re only 10 minutes away from my home.
Thankfully, I never had to dip into my savings account, though my checking account was getting dangerously close to being a three-digit number. As much as I like being unemployed, it'll be extremely nice to have an income again.
Second, I have a backlog of art that I’ve commissioned dating back to Anthrocon 2017. I want to share them with you all because they’re beautiful and the artists deserve to be recognized for them. However, I usually feel obligated to include some kind of story snippet or vignette with them, and despite being unemployed I never got around to it. Oop. Should I just go ahead and post them without stories?
Occupationally yours,
Kinto M.
P.S. Follow me on Twitter (at)Kinto_M
P.P.S. Anthrocon 2018 was fun! Sorry I never got around to posting a summary as has been my tradition.
First, the good(?) news! I have a job again. You may recall I left my last job more than a year ago, in April 2017. Since then I have been unemployed, save for a brief one-month contract job in March. In the interim I applied to more than 100 positions, resulting in maybe a dozen phone interviews and 3 (three) actual face-to-face interviews. Job hunting sucks. It doesn’t help that my networking abilities are nil. And that all the jobs I’m qualified for I don’t want, and all the jobs I want I’m not qualified for.
Starting Monday I will be working as an analyst, the DC-est of jobs. What will I be analyzing? I’m not entirely sure, and I couldn’t tell you anyway because it’s classified. Is it a job I actually want? Again, I don’t know, but as long as I won’t be answering phones all day it’s a step in the right direction. The pay’s good, though; more than I was expecting to get. I never really did find a satisfactory answer to the question ‘What do I want?’ and eventually I got complacent and kinda gave up on that.
I’m nervous. Fifteen months is a long time to be out of work. And I got this job after a single phone interview that was conducted when they called me unannounced one morning before I’d even had breakfast, and at the time I was under the impression the position paid a lot less than the offer they ended up sending me; consequentially, it was not a very good interview. Although I don’t know who else they talked to, and I do at least have some good references.
On the upside, I did win the DC commute lottery again. They’re only 10 minutes away from my home.
Thankfully, I never had to dip into my savings account, though my checking account was getting dangerously close to being a three-digit number. As much as I like being unemployed, it'll be extremely nice to have an income again.
Second, I have a backlog of art that I’ve commissioned dating back to Anthrocon 2017. I want to share them with you all because they’re beautiful and the artists deserve to be recognized for them. However, I usually feel obligated to include some kind of story snippet or vignette with them, and despite being unemployed I never got around to it. Oop. Should I just go ahead and post them without stories?
Occupationally yours,
Kinto M.
P.S. Follow me on Twitter (at)Kinto_M
P.P.S. Anthrocon 2018 was fun! Sorry I never got around to posting a summary as has been my tradition.
Can't wait to see the art you got too.
Also, grats on the job and winning the commute lottery!
get you that cash