I've been exploring the wonders of graduate unemployment. My full time job is looking for a job, and boy, can it be morale boosting. I had a second interview for a job I really, really wanted, in a field I wanted to work in, but apparently I was over-qualified, and they worried that I'd feel bored - How do you go about addressing being overqualified? The interviewer described me as being 'creative' asthough I had a chronic disease. Bastard!
God forbid that you should be hoping for a job, outside of academia, with a PHD. By the way - how is that going? Have you finally finished it yet?
I was going to take that test that you have in your journal, but was too afraid that it would show me up as a right-wing nazi, it's never nice to look in the mirror and see your ignorant, myopic self staring back at you.
How do you go about addressing being overqualified?
Good old fashioned lies? I suppose you could also drool a little, and answer in monosylabic grunts to any questions asked.
God forbid that you should be hoping for a job, outside of academia, with a PHD. By the way - how is that going? Have you finally finished it yet?
I have submitted my redrafted penultimate chapter to my supervisor. I really don't know what I'll do if he doesn't approve it this time. I have my review panel this month, and my year is up - I have to hand in my finished thesis. I am feeling a bit Morrissey at the moment.
I was going to take that test that you have in your journal, but was too afraid that it would show me up as a right-wing nazi, it's never nice to look in the mirror and see your ignorant, myopic self staring back at you.
Still, who doesn't look good in a black leather trenchcoat, jackboots, and a slight curl of the lip?
What does it feel like to feel a bit Morrissey? I know, I know, I'm uncultured. And for your review panel, may I suggest wearing a leotard, dancing like a fool, before returning to your welding day job. That's what happens at review panels...right?
I always did think that Goebbels was strangely attractive, in a despotic, lunatic sort of way.
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I've been exploring the wonders of graduate unemployment. My full time job is looking for a job, and boy, can it be morale boosting. I had a second interview for a job I really, really wanted, in a field I wanted to work in, but apparently I was over-qualified, and they worried that I'd feel bored - How do you go about addressing being overqualified? The interviewer described me as being 'creative' asthough I had a chronic disease. Bastard!
God forbid that you should be hoping for a job, outside of academia, with a PHD. By the way - how is that going? Have you finally finished it yet?
I was going to take that test that you have in your journal, but was too afraid that it would show me up as a right-wing nazi, it's never nice to look in the mirror and see your ignorant, myopic self staring back at you.
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Good old fashioned lies? I suppose you could also drool a little, and answer in monosylabic grunts to any questions asked.
God forbid that you should be hoping for a job, outside of academia, with a PHD. By the way - how is that going? Have you finally finished it yet?
I have submitted my redrafted penultimate chapter to my supervisor. I really don't know what I'll do if he doesn't approve it this time. I have my review panel this month, and my year is up - I have to hand in my finished thesis. I am feeling a bit Morrissey at the moment.
I was going to take that test that you have in your journal, but was too afraid that it would show me up as a right-wing nazi, it's never nice to look in the mirror and see your ignorant, myopic self staring back at you.
Still, who doesn't look good in a black leather trenchcoat, jackboots, and a slight curl of the lip?
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What does it feel like to feel a bit Morrissey? I know, I know, I'm uncultured. And for your review panel, may I suggest wearing a leotard, dancing like a fool, before returning to your welding day job. That's what happens at review panels...right?
I always did think that Goebbels was strangely attractive, in a despotic, lunatic sort of way.
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