Broke again

4 months, 62 resumes, and 18 interviews later and I still don't have a job.  I know that job searching is hard, but what annoys me is the reason why no one wants to hire me.  I keep getting the same response over and over again, "I'm sorry but we don't like to hire students...".  It usually ends with some sort of reason as to why they don't hire students, they range from "students don't have flexible enough schedules" to straight out "we don't trust students to show up regularly". 

I'm living in a university city.  Most of the people here who are desperate for jobs are students.  Although I agree that there are lots of students that aren't trustworthy, there are some of use who are.  Students are in desperate need of jobs, and some of us are willing to do the crappy part-time jobs to get money.  I have even decided to apply to Tim Hortons regardless of my bad experience with fast food before.  I just need a job that gives me decent hours and pays me minimum wage.  How hard could that possibly be?

Then there's the problem of transportation.  All the places that are desperate to hire are in places that are nearly impossible to get to by bus.  Every time I go to drop off resumes I am reminded of exactly how much the bus system sucks.  Of course it's easy to get to the malls, but it's down right painful to try and get to any other shopping centres.  This poses a problem when you want to actually show up on time for your shift.  It's all just so frustrating that I get stressed out and have a hard time sleeping, and when I don't sleep right my eating schedule is off.

All I can do now is pray that I get a job call this week and thank God for those in my life who have given me food and money to live on until I get a job.  Now I need to go buy milk with the nickels I found in my old wallet.   

Grrr

I got my paper proposal back and apparently half of my idea is absolute garbage, and of course it's the half that I've already written.  So now I have to write a ten page paper from scratch before Friday morning.  To say that I'm grumpy is an understatement.

It would be one thing if we had handed our proposals on the second week of classes so we could get some feedback before doing a bunch of useless work.  Instead the prof decided to have them due after the midterm which only left a couple of weeks to write the paper.  Then she took forever to mark them!  Nothing bothers me more than when a prof expects students to do excellent work when they themselves take forever to get things done.  I don't think that I'll take a class with this prof ever again, although the topics that we discuss are interesting.

It was also today of all days that a "friend" decided to hack my facebook and sign me up for a bunch of apps.  Thankfully they only sent out a few invites to my friends so there wasn't too much to clean up, but it was still a pain in the butt.  On the bright side I should get a call tomorrow telling me if I got a job or not.  I really hope that I did because it would make my week so much better.

So now off to bed so I can wake up tomorrow in time for class and be conscious enough to take decent notes!!